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

Does anyone else find the use of 'circa' for every other context besides a year excessive.... "around", "about", "roughly", "approx.", "on estimate", "something like", "~n%" what's wrong with any of these.

Have you not just today posted on another thread that you believe the vaccine trials caused the variants ?

I find it scary that not only would someone believe that, but also that they would go on social media to promote that bulls###t.

Does anyone miss what it feels like to feel properly alive anymore ? Being in a crowd of thousands of happy people that don’t give a **** ?We work all week in a mundane life . Work already occupies way too much of our short time span on earth . Life is so so short . There is no time only the time you have now . These governments that we allow make decisions for us. How the hell have they so much power to shut down human behaviour. We all know it’s a hard time with this pandemic but this is just the blink of an eye in history.Past long forgotten generations had a life expectancy less than half the current ones riddled with hardships we could never comprehend with absolutely horrid devastating existences . Divisions over vaccination status pathetic people on Twitter whinging about young people out living their life . It’s just sad . It makes me sick to my stomach . Live the life you have stop trying to shut down other people’s lives . You have no right to do that . Nobody has the right to do that.

Covid will become endemic, nobody is blind to that. I'ts plain to see zero covid is long gone.

However, each wave as such bring more natural immunity, meaning a novel virus becomes less lethal. The fact it mutates less than influenza means the vaccines would have a longer and far reaching impact.

The reason covid is so dangerous is it's novel to our immune systems.

I don't think I've ever remember a cold killing thousands each winter, unless you're so clueless to think a cold is the same as the flu?

Ditto.

I don't know anything about Lithuania but people approaching their old age in most times and places in human history were not desperately trying to extend their biological life span at any cost.

Maybe the older generation in Lithuania are Christian and accept death or, like St Paul, even look forward to it?

That might sound strange to the average Irish person now but it would not be historically strange.

I'm guessing that the cheat-death-at-all-costs imperative will soon morph into transhumanism - which is something I want nothing to do with.

I'd find it hard to believe that we'd be put into a lockdown which so much of a population vaccinated.

What I'd like to know is how is our health service in such disarray and a pathetic amount of free beds?

It's not like they weren't aware that there was a pandemic on or that restrictions were to ease. A lot of the blame has to go there and no towards the unvaccinated

The use of the word blackmail as a description of what is in the article is disingenuous.

In fact it’s simply stating the truth that the higher the percentage of vaccinated people the less likely that lockdown restrictions would be imposed. U.K. got off to a blistering start to the vaccination rollout but then completely capitulated mainly due to poor management.

Its becoming a very common theme that people who are against vaccination are usually the ones that give out about imposition of lockdown requirements because of the infection rate.

Its a real persecution complex.

When do people advocating denial of treatment to people who refused to be vaccinated realise they don’t own their own imaginary where they can roll out their version of inhumane treatment to their imaginary patients. It’s like a kid saying that they will be a Jedi master when they grow up. Delusional.

Genuine question.

You are a triage doctor in A&E. One vacant bed left in the hospital and there are two people who need hospital care for Covid and both are at the same level of illness. One has been fully vaccinated, the other no vaccination by choice. Who would you allocate get the bed too, the person who followed the medical advice, or the person who did not ?

It not really a hypothetical question as in emergency situations doctors are very often required to make those calls.

What is questionable about it ?

It`s certainly not as questionable as your statement that you believe that variants are due to vaccine clinical trials.

It`s a decision triage doctors have to make on a regular basis as to who receives on going medical care, or often who gets a hospital bed.

Ah lads, c’mon, nobody in a civilised society is going to be denied health care because of a vaccination choice, it’s a line we’ll thankfully never ever cross.

Genuine question.

You are a triage doctor in A&E. One vacant bed left in the hospital and there are two people who need hospital care for Covid and both are at the same level of illness. One is overweight, the other a healthy weight. Who would you allocate get the bed too, the person who followed medical advice and dieted/exercised well, or the person who has an unhealthy diet?

We know bodyweight is the #1 risk factor other than age for covid hospitalization, and have known this for over a year. And obesity is entirely self inflicted, nobody is forced to overeat. If we're kicking the unvaccinated out of hospitals we surely need to stop offering care to anyone overweight too by your logic? They've had a year to start losing weight and they haven't bothered.