Will there be another lockdown?

That doesn't mean that we didn't have a lockdown or that our restrictions were at worst "mildly irritating".

Indias police force has long been accused of human rights violations even before covid.

Mental health card?

You must not be living in the real world if you don't think that people have suffered from mental health issues as a result of their lives being changed so drastically and having most of their coping mechanisms being taken away! Many people tried to manage it with exercise, hobbies, socialising, seeing therapists, walks on the beach (not allowed unless you lived within 2km of the beach at one point).

Mental health charities reported a huge increase in demand due to covid!

Being found out? 🙄 such nonsense

How could I guess that pregnant people are in hospital with COVID-19.

Nearly 10% of ICU Covid patients are pregnant - doctor (rte.ie)

Right but it isn't a selfish choice or a desire to not do one's "bit" in this case.

I know restrictions in one Dublin Hospital have been in place for months.

My issue is that being vaccinated is seen as the gold star, the ultimate proof of being "actively part of the solution" but some vaccinated people are going out with covid symptoms saying "it's just a cold", they're constantly out and about socialising, they're not wearing masks properly and so on. Some got the vaccine so that they could go out, it wasn't because they cared about risking the health and wellbeing of others, it was so that they could go out as much as they wanted during a pandemic, it's actually the opposite of caring about risking the health and wellbeing of other people. Their reasons for getting it were entirely for themselves so they could have the cert! People think they can tell all about a persons morals or concern for others by their vaccination status. They can't!

I genuinely don't care if they lock down the unvaccinated for a while, as I said in a previous post it's not going to make any meaningful difference, and perhaps then people can look at the overall behaviour of everyone else instead of blaming it all on the unvaccinated. Blaming it on the unvaccinated is enabling the problem further too.

The article you linked supports the advice for pregnant women to get vaccinated. Most pregnant women in ICU with Covid are unvaccinated and do not have underlying conditions. As the vaccine is not contraindicated, the decision to to have one would appear to be just personal choice.

What point are you trying to make?

I'm not a regular poster on this site but your comment regarding 'mental health card' struck a chord with me. A dad of a child in my sons class in senior infants died by suicide December last year, he has a sister in 2nd class and another brother in fifth. Their dad had a relatively successful small business which was growing pre covid and he took on a fair amount of borrowing. He tried to keep it going and pay staff for as long as he could but business collapsed. I don't know the full details but he was saddled with heavy debt and an awful lot of stress. Their mum ended up in care a few months after for a lengthy period. "Mental health card", all in this together. Ireland and its people for all the caring and friendly reputation we love to shout about is a load of bollocks really deep down, this whole covid catastrophe has exposed this, talk of hotlines reporting people being the latest example...sickening.

It would be ideal, though also in the realms of eccentricity, if you could push that vaccination rate up to say 103 or 107% and give that virus a good old seeing to. But, then we'd be out of ammunition and what would we do?

No, you're right we'll target 100 and damn those unvaccinated disease hounds.

Ps good post apart from that tired % cliché.

Who can’t get vaccinated?

Sorry, mód or not, your powers have limits. I can't give you all of their names. For GDPR reasons.

Whether there will be another lockdown or not is not a prediction about what will actually happen in the near future. Its not about Conspiracy theories about Joe the government hates pubs or ways to lock down the country in accordance with whatever conspiracy.

This discussion doesn't need any reference to conspiracy theories.

Most would if they thought that this would all have an end date and that we could keep our body autonomy.

You are not in any way interested in what the unvaccinated have to say anyway because your mind is made up so why are you even bringing polls into it?