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

Irish Examiner have more details on the roadmap to the roadmap

Roadmap for loosening of Covid restrictions to be announced at end of the month (irishexaminer.com)

•  Covid-19 sub-committee meeting will be held this Thursday for what government sources call a "run-down" of the current situation.
• Briefings from public health officials to government.
• Thursdays meeting will form a basis for the recommendations which will be passed onto the Cabinet when it meets on the last day of the month.
• Formal announcement on the roadmap on 31 August.
• Leaks say this will not be about lifting restriction X on Y date. It will be about "the available options once a certain amount of the population are fully vaccinated and based on public health advice from the current Covid-19 situation at the time".
• The Irish Times previously said that the roadmap will allow restrictions to be lifted once 85-90% of 16+ are fully vaccinated AND hospitals are not "struggling" AND R rate is below 1 AND no new variants increased transmission or vaccine evasion i.e. 4 criteria to meet.
• Remaining restrictions include WFH, nightclubs, certain live events, masks, social distancing etc

Reading between the lines:

• NPFET who are "concerned" about the increase in hospitalisations are surely going to tell the government "not now" for office reopening's etc until the situation greatly improves.
• No dates will be given in the roadmap just potential plans when the triggers are met.

I would be surprised if the criteria are met anytime soon which could easily mean that remaning restrictions stay in place until Spring 2022.

So no roadmap so,just a load of whataboutery and waffle from MM. Some joke,And there were posters scoffed at here when they said all restrictions would be lifted in September.Wait until you see all emergency legislation will be extended regarding the vaccine passports as well

waffle from MM is the default position

Exactly and wait until they start introducing even more restrictions as the winter goes on

• "No dates will be given in the roadmap just potential plans when the triggers are met."

"And no, we won't tell you what those triggers are"

That's some high thresholds for any further easing of restrictions

• The Irish Times previously said that the roadmap will allow restrictions to be lifted once 85-90% of 16+ are fully vaccinated AND hospitals are not "struggling" AND R rate is below 1 AND no new variants increased transmission or vaccine evasion i.e. 4 criteria to meet.

very hard to see all those things happening coming into the winter

This roadmap is essentially useless if that's the plan

Since before COVID when have the hospitals not been struggling?

Nothing wrong with Pfizer really. All they had to do was extend the dose to 12 weeks and everything would of been grand. You remember when everyone on here were calling Boris and his crazy scientists reckless for being the only ones to extend the time between doses ?

Good job they did when you think about it, considering all the most at risk of dying got Pfizer first. That was 7 months ago when they were handed out.

Vaccinations for sure, we're almost at 85% first doses for over 12s already. R I have my doubts, as the vaccine seems to reduce spread but not zero it (but I don't think we had any data released on how many of the new cases are vaccinated, just who ends up in hospital). Hospitals overload - it really depends if we're only talking about covid patients here, or just hospitals in general.

"Going to be hard for the people in charge to spin that one as a vaccine good story"

Did any of them get sick or die? If not, that's good news.