Relaxation of Restrictions, Part XII *Read OP For Mod Warnings*

I really don’t get this. Teachers are vaccinated and boosted and a significant number must of also caught covid especially given the numbers who got Omicron. It’s very rare for a child to get seriously I’ll from Covid. At one point it was said Flu was still a bigger threat to children then Covid. So what exactly is the purpose of the masks? We saw from Omicron peak there won’t be a big spike in hospitalisations or ICU admissions. So is there a justification for them in schools. What is the cost to a child’s developing immune system?

But by doing so he's completely ignoring those principles and merely encouraging the hypocrisy of his colleague.

I was in the office yesterday and didn't wear a mask at all and haven't throughout. About 70/80% of staff not wearing masks either. Why would I? Like the ridiculousness of previously being expected to wear masks going to the table or toilet in a restaurant but sitting there among others unmasked as long as you like, it MAKES NO SENSE - and personally, regardless of the social "consensus", I'm not good with things that don't make sense!

It think it'll be more of a case that there will be no justification for them. Medical environments sure and maybe advisory on transport but that should be it.

Don't feed!

To me it sounds like the CMO is laying the groundwork for keeping these measures long-term without justification. The science shows us that Omicron is dominant, does not usually translate to severe illness, and puts little additional strain on the health service. Despite these facts, our experts are insisting on maintaining restrictive measures. What’s worse the measures they want to continue seem to have little effect against the spread of the virus (mask mandate in place but we had 10s of thousand of detected cases per day…).

I really hope you’re right and that all of the remaining measures are lifted soon but I find it really difficult to trust our experts when they don’t seem to be following the science.

I have read the RSV another respiratory virus in children is rampant at the moment. I cant see them telling us this restriction is for a non covid illness..but apparently children are getting sick from it, and are ending up in hospital too.

I personally dont think the masks work to the effect they were sold to us, but reading an article the other day and weakened immune systems in children due to less exposure/lockdowns/pods etc, means we now have an increase in RSV in children. RSV is more dangerous to children than covid.

However, same concerns for elderly/vunerable etc to catch RSV are there. the issue really is.. do we accept the masks/ windows open etc to reduce the possible spread of this RSV, because, they cant in reality tell us its not for Covid, but for something else?

Or is it they want to keep up with the covid theatre, I am in no way pro-tony, but this is the only explanation that I can see..

Whats the story with the co2 monitors in classrooms? , has co2 gotten anything to do with covid??

All the schools have these now and unless the windows are open it seems these monitors go red. Never had them when i was a kid and nobody seemed to suffer but are our kids going to have to shiver every winter foreveer now because of these devices? Talk about the cure being worse than the disease.

We kind of used 1918 as the template for a global pandemic but I agree it was mostly countries just copying each other. Our pandemic plan IIRC was at least a decade old and largely cut and pasted from an older Australian document, Italy's was well over 20 years old.

"Whats the story with the co2 monitors in classrooms? , has co2 gotten anything to do with covid??"

Show if air exchange is sufficeint or not, I presume.

https://www.rte.ie/news/politics/2022/0202/1277247-coronavirus-politics/

NPHET latest advice, in a change from the norm I can see wide public support but not much support from govt

Weird flex. "I've posted more than you so your opinion doesn't count"...?