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I believe yous are both right, base being elderly is right to be putting her health above the social scene, and Morris being on the younger side, just like the teenagers, deserves to have the social aspect, like everyone had pre covid.

Fully agree with Whelan that everyone should be respected for their own choice whether they took a vaccine or not.

However, the govt and media have done the opposite, by restricting and villifying non-vaccinated people.

As Morris says, restrictions on non-vaccinated are entirely without scientific validity.

The vaccine ONLY protects the person who gets it.

It doesn't stop or reduce transmission, so whether you take it or not, has no benefit for anyone, other than yourself.

If you're under 60 and otherwise healthy, you've a far greater chance of dying or being hospitalized from crossing the road than you have from Covid.

Anyway, NPHET/the government already know all this, but choose to ignore it.

Look do whatever you think is best for yourself, but this shite of if I take the vaccine everyone should have it, or if I don't have a social life no one should have it is bullshit.

I got vaccinated twice and am booked in for a booster this week .Not really bothered to queue up for hours so got herself to book it in the pharmacy .

That said the local I usually go to is closing tonight for what might be good so will most likely head over there later .Normally opens about 9pm during the week and 8pm at weekends so the new hours means it has no real point in staying going .Been packed most weeks in December and imagine it will be jammed tonight .

Jaysus, I don't consider myself as "elderly" but maybe youngsters would view me as same 🙄

As I said before I got the two jabs even though I didn't want to but you are forced into it as you can't go nowhere or do anything without the cert. It shouldn't be a case where if you don't get the vaccine you are victimized.

I've decided not to get this booster, enough is enough, you can keep letting them pump injections into your arm like that as it will eventually have a bad result in some form in years to come. The science is too flawed now too. They've gone from proper procedure with regard to data gathering, analyzing the data, developing Medicine and testing the Medicine to totally winging it with full disregard to proper procedure.

It's wing it, spin it and keep the gravy train running at all costs at this stage.

So double vaxxed people that don't get the booster, are a problem now aswell, I love how the spin machine is making you think, their won't be a hospital bed to be got let alone a icu bed if omicron plays out like Tony and Co predict, after Xmas...

I disagree, a social life isn’t just pubing & clubbing, it meeting friends for a cup of tea, a chat at the Co-op, shop, filling station

The restrictions may not of impacted me, but there has been casualties in younger people during lockdown as they couldn’t cope

Their is no right course, but tight restrictions will lead to 2 factions, those who obey and those who will break giving an uncontrolled environment

Its an Ignorant type of question with no real reasoning or logic other than a bad minded motive of the person asking.

Your right particularly about younger people needing social contact. I disagree with the early closure of the pubs/restaurants. Omicron is here and it won't a bit of difference to what time pubs/restaurants close at.

The thing is government aren't going to just hand back the power that they have now, the COVID pass was for a few months at the start, now it's up to the middle of next summer.

It's not the government calling the shots though. There afraid to make the decisions. And when people get pissed off enough and push back on the restrictions then the government will have to toe the line. If this continues the same as it has been moving from lockdown to lockdown the people will change from been "in it together " attitude to f**k this **** show. Seems to be a big attitude difference now than there was 18mths ago to restrictions. Definitely among the younger people.

A young adult died near me died over the weekend where they were waiting for a procedure and it postponed due to priorities with covid. Won't see that and the many like it on the six one though.

I fully agree, it's the bullshit like above giving out about the covid certs, no one knows how long this will go on for...

We all know cases that covid has affected, my friend was due a double mastectomy last Wednesday due to cancer. She tested positive on the Monday. Surgery off until next year . Thankfully she's not too ill with covid but she was prepared for the op