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

Superficially nothing. However if you even interrogate the idea at any depth public health felt that in a pub setting that with the consumption of alcohol that adherence to the public health measures would be reduced.

The measure must also be considered in the context of the overall goals of the restrictions. The idea was to reduce the number of contacts that everyone had. While the measures may have seemed arbitrary, the idea was that not all contacts have equal value. It was obvious that industries that were less important to the overall functioning of the country were closed for the longest in order to keep contacts suppressed. IE pubs were closed so schools could open.

This shouldn't need to be explained to you, this was discussed in depth for months.

More likely to catch it in an uncontrolled setting, so they closed the controlled settings and pushed people into uncontrolled settings. Thats NPHET for you.

Mental gymnastics? The point of all the restrictions on socialisation was to reduce the number of contacts. There is an argument about the fairness of the measures but the simple fact is the €9 requirement resulted in the closure of half of pubs. This consequently reduced socialisation. And no, not everyone went to house parties instead. Most just didn't go out.

If we learned anything, is that there are a cohort of people out there that believe that the government is out to get them and that they are incapable understanding policy at any level - no matter how much it's explained to them. What they will take and accept though are glib Facebook posts by people with an agenda. oh they have it right...

You were less likely to be falling about the place off your head if you were forced to buy a €9 meal and be out in 1h45m. Also you were less likely to go on a pub crawl. Sadly you were more likely to go to a house party after the pub, at 11 o clock etc etc

Back in May 2020 NPHET wanted restaurants to open but the govt pushed ahead with the €9 meal in any pub to appease publicans. In hindsight they might have not delayed the reopening of pubs 3 weeks later (6 weeks, 9 weeks, 12 weeks etc etc) if the govt stuck to the plan

So according to this article in the Independent - young people who were vaccinated and then caught Omicron are going to be coerced into taking boosters for a Wuhan strain of the virus with a big publicity campaign starting next Month….after recovering from the recent strain….how does this make sense?

I don’t agree with getting rid of PCR testing options for people until the EU Covid Cert rules are dropped. Provide ways for people to show they’ve recovered as agreed at EU level.

“People whose Covid infection was confirmed via antigen testing face issues in getting recovery certs for international travel:

“The Covid cert was designed at EU level, and only the PCR test is recognised for a recovery cert. Antigen doesn’t cut it. But we can’t change it because the whole operation of Covid certs was agreed originally at EU level.”

The senior HSE source added to the Irish Independent: “Other countries took the same decision we did on antigens (when their PCR testing systems came under intolerable pressure).

“Unfortunately it seems they (the people affected) have to wait until they get their booster.”

That is another coercive tactic to push more vaccines. This time however onto those who after having recovered have a better immunity than any vaccine can give. There is no medical need for this. Non-vaccinated recovered, vaccinated and recovered, and recovered and then vaccinated have the same level of protection. Immunity obtained through the natural infection still rocks. Even, or maybe especially, in the mRNA era.

The "Media" would call us the "Great Unwashed"....

Nice bit from the Oxford Languages dictionary 😁

Dr Holohan is already on record calling for a new "Slimer,more focused" permanent NPHET to be established in order to boost our readiness for future pandemicals (or strategic panic requirements)

Be under no illusion that the demise of THIS NPHET is more of an intermission to allow for some R & R for all concerned....

Does Pat not realize that people WILL die from Covid anyway,mask,hazmat,vaccine,booster or not ?

Everyone of us,at some point has to face our own mortality ...it's an absolute.

Is Pat Kenny suggesting that our mortality can,on a large scale be thwarted by wearing masks of any sort...we will all die,but the only outcome of this Media Rearguard action is to ensure that some will now die of FEAR itself ! 😲

This two-week lead in is little more than a death-by-a-thousand articles performance,designed to mobilise some form of resistance campaign to maintain the mandate at all costs.

In reality all it is doing is to smoke out the crazies to form an unstable alliance with the fearful and manipulate them into some form of force to be reckoned with.

This is actually the most important period of the entire production,as it's outcome will determine how Freedom is defined in future life !

End it Now !

Mr Musician posted.....

The rationale,as far as I can make out,is to vastly increase the numbers of those who can be classified as "Vulnerable".

The past two years has seen swathes of society,who would have fared well using their own intellect and common sense now convinced they are a new species "The Vulnerable",who now must be looked after by a new Admistrative Entity,which will be along soon.

As one's mother might have said..."Be careful now and Mind Yourself"

Slimer NPHET you say?

I don't need to have a brilliant strategy as a citizen of this country or any other in order to criticise authoritarian measures taken on the back of provably inept modelling. That's not how any of this works.

Pat Kenny is an old fella, married, has kids, great career, etc.

Essentially he has lived a great life.

Restrictions really don't make much of a difference to him at this stage. He isn't out there trying to build a career, travel, relationships, etc.

Of course, this whole modelling **** that has been going on for the last 2 years lacked not only accuracy (of course), but also data on probability factors of various scenarios actually occurring. Sure 200k dead in Ireland was a possibility and someone modelling that would not be wrong. What is wrong however is predicting such numbers without calculating the probability of that happening. So what that 200k could die if the probability of that happening is lower than RTE actually providing objective and unbiased coverage of pandemic (or something equally unlikely to happen i.e. me turning into diamond by lunchtime tomorrow - possible but extremely unlikely to occur that fast).

additionally a thorough analysis of cost associated with a strategy of dealing and responding to each scenario should also be conducted and that being in monetary, health and social terms. But hey what do I know. I’m not the ruling elite.