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

This is what you said:

It sounds like what you meant to say was:

The first implies the vaccine doesn't stop contraction of covid and leaves it ambiguous as to what the meaning is. If you want to hide behind ambiguity, expect to be called out on it. If you want a discussion, at least be accurate in what you're trying to convey, because, as it was, it implied that Callum Robinson would have missed the game anyway even if vaccinated.

I trust your future posts will be more accurate in this regard.

What planet are you on if you think masks in a nightclub are an option in any shape or form?

What's the point in masks when you are in a pub or night club? No mask 95% of the time then you put it on to go to the jacks. It's pure theatre.

On 24th September the government announced that the passports would be extended on 9th october by 2 weeks until 22 October.

On 9th October legislation permitting use of passports was extended until new year "just in case"

In the last two days an emergency has popped out of nowhere requiring some restrictions be extended with a great emphasis being placed on the passports as the main restriction to be kept.

I don't think they ever had any intention of removing the passports.

To what end? I don't know. But I guess we will find out over the next few months.

But if the behaviour of former liberal democracies like Australia and Italy are anything to go by, it does not look overly rosy.

I would suggest that the next date for removal of the passport restrictions will see a similar emergency being rolled out a week or two beforehand again.

Can’t believe we’re a week out and they are talking about not dropping the restrictions. How people aren’t up in arms about this cowboy government I’ll never know, it’s psychological abuse of the populace at this stage.

I wonder if at the start of all this instead of 2 weeks to flatten the curve, they came out and said we’ll be balls deep in this for 2 years + how many people would have complied.

Yep I do not want to go back to those outdoor cans/pints which thinking back now was horrible

Yeah my local has the table at the bar setup so I sit there and it's almost like the old days.

Few pints with people over the Christmas be grand. Pretty sure they are all vaccinated :)

I don't know the date specifics of CR7 but I'll take your word for it and thank you for the efforts you have made.

What’s the **** point of something like that? It boggles the mind? Is the point of night clubs not to dance in close proximity and shift the face off random strangers? It seems masks have just become part of our cultural lexicon now and we just wear them because it’s what’s expected like having to go to mass years ago even though you didn’t believe in God.

The worst thing is I actually believe what you’re saying could happen, RTÉ will be rocking up with the cameras and you have some young wan in the queue wearing only half nothing and a vaccine passport with a mask on getting tested by some bloke in a visor and space suit to get in, people on top of each other in a small space but somehow it’s grand because they have a mask on or even worse all dancing on boxes on the floor 2 metres apart. No one will question this insanity and it will be spun as some positive back to normal situation.

We’ve lost the **** plot.

They didn't know it would last this long back at the start.

They could end all restrictions tomorrow and nothing would happen, we’re gripped by a mass psychosis.