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

You've answered your first question yourself. This is what happens when you put quotas ahead of competence. She's not the only minister in that regard!

But before the perpetually offended get too worked up, refer back to my previous post on the 3 leaders

It's breathtaking the incompetence and ineptitude, of course there'll all off on their extended breaks, God bless them, we'll hear no more for two weeks , they collectively couldn't give a toss 🙄

I agree, but ffs this is what he said yesterday!

https://www.rte.ie/news/coronavirus/2021/1221/1268034-covid-ireland-latest/

Yep but as I said, "do as I say, not as I do"

Not the first time either. Remember the big party that Big Phil finally lost his job over? Similar drama in the UK recently over one last year except over there they resign pretty much the next day in most cases.

We had the harshest restrictions throughout Europe, for the majority of 2021.

I can't understand how some people defend this, even when our own Government said it was a mistake

Then again, I see the state of this country and read some of the posts on here and it makes sense

I have no doubts it is complicated, and like a lot of the problems with Africa it is not being helped by do-gooders recently advocating we send all booster vaccines to South Africa where South Africa has said shortage of vaccines is not the problem, that they are presently over supplied and hesitancy is the real problem.

Nobody is denying that Africa has major problem in many areas, not just this pandemic, but for decades we have been throwing money and resources at these problems and nothing seems to change. I know we all feel guilty when we look at the situations in much of Africa. Ireland especially with our on history of imperial rule and our famine in the 1840`s, but we are not going to change much unless some of these countries start to deal with their own problems. Take Ethiopia for example. A major famine in the1980 when the population was 72 million that effected 8 million where over 1 million died. 35 years later another major famine where the population has now grown by 60% to 115 million and is projected to reach 144 million by 2030. This in a country were despite all efforts by the Western world 80% of the population are still poor farming families that are existing on what the produce year by year. One bad harvest and it`s famine.

Anyway, not a subject for this thread, and how you change it I have no idea, but for me at least similar to do-gooders and vaccines, just throwing money and resources as we presently are is not fixing anything in Africa.

Out of pure interest, where has Leo or MM admitted that paying most of hospitality to stay shut for the guts of 10 months was a mistake?

I'd love to read it for myself (because it was an incredibly stupid eye Wateringly expensive mistake)

Varadker said that they won't have the toughest restrictions in Europe again next summer, that he will advocate not to make the same mistakes in terms of restrictions that we've had over the last two summers.

And yes, I know, he's full of **** and Holohan will get his way again and we'll be on booster 7 by then blah blah blah

Great, thanks. Nice to see at least someone in government admit to a mistake and not gaslight us into thinking it was a great idea. Look forward to paying for that mistake in my taxes.

load of family and friends i know have tested positive with antigen tests today, all waiting for PCRs today, numbers are gonna sky rocket.

thankfully, but not surprisingly, none of them are actually sick. coughs and runny noses, sore throats for the few that even have symptoms.

oh, they done their own tests because they were going to aprents hosues for dinner Xmas day etc, before anyone asks why they bothered.

shock horror!! coughs and runny noses in mid winter! 😮

Bring out your dead!

I'd be very very weary of anything Leo says generally but in particular anything about restrictions, let's not forget his recent comments about being sceptical of needing further restrictions, 2 days later eating his words. It wasn't the first time he said something , only to regret it within hours & days, Rather peculiar that 😏

So you think our brightest scientists and doctors are following the money instead of trying to discover more about the virus?

How did you come to that conclusion?

Looking at today's COVID figures 6,307 new cases, 2 days ago we breached 50% omicron, I can't see it reaching the NPHET figure of 20,000 daily cases at this rate of increase