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

While Lockdown certainly meant different to others since 2020 lets not get away from the fact that also lockdown is not being able to live a normal life, we are being treated like we do not know how to live or act. I have seen your replies so its not about 2km or 5km or entry to pubs etc but if people who are not unvaccinated can not live a normal life unless they get a vaccine for a virus that most healthy young people wont die from.

Mental Torture is also a form of Lockdown for people, MSM are running ads about people not going to the party cause they had sniffles etc thats a major form of lockdown cause people will think they are a danger to society if they go outside and interact with others if they have a runny nose.

For you this may not feel like a lockdown cause "you can do you want" as long as you keep your vaccine schedule up to date but for others this is a lockdown

How about you decide for yourself whether to go or not? Do you fall into a vulnerable category? Will you be meeting vulnerable people afterwards? Will you be comfortable in a socially distanced indoor setting?

Of course we all make our own decisions based on that sort of criteria

I am still surprised that carol services are going ahead in the present uncertain situation.

It seems to me that for some people Christmas is almost like a religion :-)

I just think that placing the term lockdown on something that patently isn't, doesn't do anyone's mental health any good. It's like a self-fulfilling prophesy. If you think you're locked down, you're invariably going to feel much more negatively about life in general. Here, it's up to yourself. You do you.

...but if some of the people who reckon a few restrictions mean a lockdown and decide that, come January, we're in lockdown and post, "Ha! Penfailed, I told you we'd be locked down!" just to gain internet points, they'll get short shrift from me.

He's making a choice not to be vaccinated though, so is he really being excluded

He has a choice, if he chooses that he wants to go to the cinema he should choose to get jabbed. He's not being punished

I sure hope that Omicron will be mild enough to be considered as a disease similar to flu that allows us to resume life more or less as before.

But I defer to medical experts and political consensus(and a moving landscape)

Off topic:

Are all taking our eyes off the main game in town which is climate change which will likely put our Covid concerns into the halfpenny place in short order?

Edit:what attracts you to Red states in the US?

That's not patronising, that's just somebody being a complete dick.

Plus if one of my friends or work colleagues (to use the examples in the ads) had the virus the rest of us wouldn't even be going out as we would most likely all be deemed close contacts... What an idiotic advert

Ironic that with more people there's less restrictions, as clearly more people in that scenario means an increased risk of someone actually transmitting Covid.

I'd understand it with U18's more so if it was going to have a massive difference on the level of transmission (I understand vaccines do reduce transmission somewhat).

But you're talking about a population who are very unlikely to become seriously ill themselves from it, so there really should be more of a choice in that age category, no real need to coerce them.

Slim chance the government are going to go against NPHETs advice

You want to close schools early where kids play with friends and believe if a kid doesn't take a vaccine they don't need then tough look about social activities.

You certainly have no kids or care about kids in general and I would be banned it I said what I would like to say.

I actually just heard that ridiculous RSVP ad on the radio there again and caught the website this time - https://www.gov.ie/en/publication/84a4f-risk-symptoms-venue-people/

The undertone of fearmongering under this supposedly sensible official advice is frankly disgusting. Basically trying to make people afraid of doing perfectly normal activities with friends and family.

There has been a definite ramp-up on these ads in the last week or so - probably explains why the media are pushing the agenda so heavily again (as we saw in the reports on the profits made from these ads by TV/radio stations).