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

So you're not agreeing with the image that you quoted now? Good to know for future reference :)

Society hasn't closed down chap.

I was speaking to a young lad who has to do that, and for the cinema as well. 13, and you have to show a pass, can't get much more depressing than that. But, you'll have people saying it's just temporary. 😏

It may not be closed down but it is crumbling, not enough teachers to teach our young, not enough doctors or nurses to treat our sick..no diagnosis for any ailment unless you have covid test first..

Palliative care was reduced..allowing our old to die without it.

Supply shortage of food etc..15-18% reduction in staff..was reported here during the week...and NOT BECAUSE OF OMRICON-Covid as a disease..as 96% of our cases are omricon and the majority of ICU is delta variant..

It's ALL because of the policies and rules in place..

And let's not even start about the social side of society..

It may not be fully closed down..but the fact they are changing the close contact rules..show that to prevent it happening they have to change the rules to keep society going..

You have to have a positive PCR to get the cert no matter what affect it had on you.

Surely there'll be thousands in recent weeks unable to get a PCR isolating at home with a positive antigen and unfairly unable to attain a recovery cert?

They have no intention on lifting restrictions on hospitality

The Vintners were bought off with MUP. Now they have gotten it, they'll go all out for a full pub reopening.

If they don't then it shows they have zip influence anymore.

The other fellow Cummins at the Restaurants association comes across as a guy who has been promised a gig, possibly with the EU. His Twitter timeline is full of government retweets about non hospitality pro-government stuff.

They accepted it coming in, it was just as illogical today as it was then so whats makes you think they will say anything now?

I don’t see any nefarious conspiracy at all here. My reading of it would be that covid passes will stay for hospitality as NPHET believe that it’s a important measure to protect the health service.

The problem I have with that is that the covid vaccines and boosters for healthy people under 50 has next to no impact on the key metrics, hospitalisation and ICU. Then there’s the fact that transmission is possibly only barely reduced. The passes are useless. Everyone knows it. But they’ll stay.

Its all in tune with NPHET and their paternalistic ‘the public can’t be trusted, we know what’s best for them’ reasoning.

This kind of obstinacy and conservatism has defined NPHET for me. Blunt tools that provide both little benefit and high collateral damage.

Since I originally posted that clown meme a few pages back, let me clarify that I don't believe there is any grand conspiracy for forced vaccinations. The meme is meant more as an ironic commentary on people like you, who denounce people's concerns at such measures as either unfounded or conspiratorial, even as we see the goalposts moving before our eyes. When a government brings in a brand new law that restricts peoples freedoms, the principle of 'extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence' should absolutely apply. In the case of the passes, zero evidence was provided for their usefulness at the beginning and zero evidence has been forthcoming since to show their effectiveness. This has been the case with most of the restrictions to be honest, but the passes are perhaps the most glaringly, unscientific and stupid of them all. You don't have to be a tinfoil hat wearing Alex Jones fan to see this.

It's disgusting and dehumanising really. It's somewhat reminiscent of some of the language that the far right used to come out with against Muslims during the 'war on terror' years.