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

This explains Friday and Saturday nights in Carlow town

Oh no! Start the witch hunt!

Who are they trying to save at this point? They have to recognise that we are all going to get it at some point, instead of chasing this zero covid pipe dream. If the new strain is only giving you a "severe cold" then if it's not taking you this winter, it's coming after you next winter or the one after that.

Whilst the rest of us have to live restricted lives to delay the inevitable. They are going to pull this **** every single winter in third cousin twice removed, variant form.

You obviously didn't read that post properly. The gig is Saturday night. My mate is no longer going. I'm going to drive there and back. Your reply wasn't anywhere near as smart as you think it was.

Cases are under control though. They've remained fairly constant for weeks now (from what I've read in here...I don't actually know for sure as I don't slavishly follow the stats the way some people seem to).

Who are they trying to save? Well they are saving themselves and the p*ss poor management of the Health Service in this country. 2 years nearly at this and barely an increase or improvements in the health service. With nearly everyone 8n the country vaccinated and the vulnerable triple vaccinated this is the only reason left. The politicians and management of the hse have made such a mess and we are all paying for it. The genie is out of the bag now and this will be the normal every winter, if they thought they would have got away with this in previous pre covid winters they would have done it. Sure even in the summer when the cases were low with had HSE management saying that A&E was filling up with people because of the outdoor summer.

Boards Going to light up today with NPHET"s latest recommendations.

I'm not overly surprised if I'm being honest. Omicron was only named over 2 weeks ago, Boris has been caught with his trousers down, Ireland basically gave up on sensible measures last September, around the time they fought against boosters.

They've blamed everything from Teenagers, Unvaccinated, Children etc not once accepting they might be wrong on antigen testing, track and trace, schools etc.

Booster campaign started with zero planning, absolute chaos over the past two weeks and now confounding a shambles with opening boosters to everyone without staff or logistics in place.

NPHET now gagged essentially so ironically the CMO won't have any explaining to do, over to the three Amigos to explain how we got here, that's going to be a Cluster****

Curfew is how it's being described, it says it all really 😳

It is a curfew in all but name. Only thing missing are the garda checkpoints to know why you are out after 5 and where are you going?

The harsh reality is hospitality was already restricted by stealth, I spoke to some staff who'd already had hours cut, back on PUP etc, the sector was already limping along and even if no further restrictions were implemented, business closures were Gaurenteed come January and permanently.

Meanwhile Morning Ireland gave it 10 minutes, now they are covering a By Election result in the UK 🙄

It's trying to sneak in another lockdown is what it is. All because Holohan (who we know has a crusade against alcohol) is trying to shut down after work socialising in the week before Christmas.

I would suggest though that anyone who has had enough start mailing their TDs and the senior members of Government with their views this morning before the meeting happens.

What a stupid post.

Go a few weeks without it? They've been closed for over a year!

I get the impression that the nutters that actually applaude these measures and ask for more are people that are in no way affected by closures.

I bet if you kept going back to work, losing your job, going back to work, losing your job, signing on, signing off, signing on you'd be raging.

Covid has been a blessing for the anti social brigade, they get to hope that society never goes back to normal. And as if to think that a variant which is being proven to be less dangerous is going to piss off after the 9/01.

Was in the pub a couple weeks back, place was dead, nobody is going to them, these proposals will do nothing for tackling the spread of the virus. The virus will continue to do what virus's do.