Will there be another lockdown?

Perhaps I over analysed but I felt you were attacking me so I'll apologise if I am wrong. Any reasonable discussion is going to have two , perhaps even more differing views, I don't believe that should be described as talking out of both sides of one's mouth.

I don't have the answers, nor the solutions and it's fair to say there's so many different opinions on both sides of the argument things become heated. I've tried to stir clear of for example, F**K masks, its all a cod, give us back our freedoms mantra etc. The country had, I believed made enormous progress , I'm just sensing a ground hog day so to speak and I certainly don't want to see a return to what we've all gone through.

I'm as frustrated as anyone trying to navigate this entire situation, I want to see an end to it, I just believe, rightly or wrongly , the powers that be are making an arse of things .

IMO opinion of course 😏

Fair point and back up to 500 this morning

Yep but lower than last week.

Unless they have RIP’d

Here in Germany. Looks like lockdown is coming. I live in Bavaria and hospitalisation rates are spiking.

Again and again this. It's no obsession, it's simply common sense. People usually visit few shops doing their shopping. So instead of putting mask on and off in between every shop they go to, they leave it on. It's that simple.

I think you are trying to find more behind that, but in my opinion you are failing.

Nope I won't agree. Well at least as it comes to my point of view. There wasn't much of criticism based on something of value. Apart from the usual narratives, edging with conspiracy theories and freedom whingers twisting about everything you can think of, being pushed through basically from day one. And guess what those kind of arguments didn't change till now, still the same.

That last part of your post, I don't know why those people have the masks on and honestly I don't care. If they happy let them at it. Does it harm you any way? I don't think so.

Just to let you know, you could be labelled as a curtain twitcher, while observing others. There's few posters around using that term.

Lockdown or some form of restrictions are coming this winter in Ireland, I guarantee you all that.

I know of a hospitality establishment where the staff are all getting sick with 'colds' or 'bugs'. These people are symptomatic. The guidelines are isolate if you have symptoms and test. These guidelines are not being following. They are not testing and believing its colds while they continue working in a customer service role. I know one person who was allowed to continue working in a customer service hospitality role with a cough without testing. The whole lot of staff on the floor are sick with cough but they are still allowed to work.

I know there are colds going around but how does someone establish if they have a cold or covid without testing?

Covid is going to spread and its going to reach into more vulnerable groups including staff in healthcare settings. The health service won't be able to cope if many staff is isolating with symptoms.

I don't want another lockdown. Especially now approaching Christmas.

How many more places are flouting the guidelines on sickness and symptoms and self diagnosing symptoms as colds without testing?

Covid is going to spread. I would concerned about people in the 60 to 70 age bracket who received the AZ dose and the delta variant. If they boosters aren't rolled out as soon as possible to them, I would be concerned that they may overwhelm hospitals while healthcare professionals might be suffering with sickness and isolation.

Lockdown is coming. The more cases there are, the more it's going to spread and covid will reach more people.

I wonder could it just be because they're cold. My son really appreciates his when it's cold out!

You really like to stick your head in the sand don't you. The lockdown is coming.

Same reason as last year. The health system.

A lockdown to me is when you shut down hospitality and non essential shops and tell people they can't gather.

By January

Any links to the media crying out for another lockdown?