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

The EU spent all last year telling NPHET to accept the fact that antigen testing works. To stop fining people for going to the airport with an intent to leave the country. NPHET are a law onto themselves

What’s the difference? In both situations your freedom is being denied.

If they were for our health I'd agree. But they are not.

I haven't seen one advertisement from our HSE to encourage a more healthy lifestyle.. or to lose weight in this whole thing.

Shame though, cos this really was an opportunity to encourage people to be healthier.. to actually save lives and help the health service in the long run too.

Are the current restrictions in place till the 29th?

Are the meeting the 15 to review restrictions?

on a serious note when do you think they will announce if they are going to lift restrictions on the 29th? Surly they will give a week anyway if things are been lifted on the 29th

Yep. It's a balls. My cert runs out on Saturday. I didn't use it anyway as I don't agree with them.

The Irish public has accepted every restriction for the last 2 years. Don't think this will be the hill people will die on.

How will restricting a minority of people entering a McDonald’s do anything to combat obesity?

And surely it just prevents them from eating inside, but not from actually entering and buying their crap?

So more crap about restrictions for non-existent benefits. 🙄

Signed

Well observed re Cummins, he always played both ends of the pitch at the same time, outrage at restrictions whilst supporting government and of course blaming PUP for all his sectors problems, won't be long before he starts that nonsense again.

The deafening silence since early December from ALL of the representative bodies is astonishing, partly driven by generous government supports but also because in reality there was little business anyway due to closure by stealth and hysteria and its a particularly lean time in Hospitality.

Of course whilst the representative are happy, their members, particularly smaller one's are taking the brunt and debts mounting.

There's an apparent narrative, A sure it will be grand in a month or so, of course that's dillusional. I personally don't see a quick recovery, in fact I see a lot of full closures.

It's been said before. Pompidou apparently said it more than once and there was a typical Gallic shrug to it. If it posed any risk to his reelection he'd hold his tongue. It is a fairly absurd situation that countries are pushing so hard on vaccination and boosters because of a reduction of efficacy in the vaccines they are trying to make people take again! Bring on the antivirals!

I got into a Back and forth yesterday over a Tennis Player getting special treatment to compete in the Australian Open, my stance was entirely based on the wink and nod treatment he got, the Shenanigans around letting him circumvent rules and NOT as some tried to twist, his vacination status.

I've long been appalled at the shocking treatment of those unvaccinated and indeed the continuing blame game that's apportioned to them. I've long stated there are large numbers who can not be vaccinated. I've not denied there is a high percentage of those hospitalised unvaccinated but instead of trying to understand why, they are treated like Paraiahs, almost sub human, its frankly disgusting.

This latest Surge was not caused by the unvaccinated and its perhaps Ironic, the likes of Macron and other leaders making all sorts of treats when they refuse to support Vacination of poorer countries, where infact its likely Variants will develop.

It's abundantly clear our own vaccination levels extraordinaryly high with a Tiny percentage of unvaccinated remaining and yet we seem no nearer to a way forward than we were a year ago.

This Pandemic has been a Blame game from start to finish, anything to deflect from quite astonishing miss management by numerous governments world wide.

In essence we're going around in circles.

Ciara Kelly had a good rant there a few minutes ago on Newstalk asking if we shouldn't be considering less restrictions at this stage given ICU numbers are stable and predominantly Delta whereas we've seen since December that Omicron is milder and not resulting in a surge in ICU admissions.

Shane of course taking the contrarian position of waiting a few more weeks to see if that continues to be the case.

I know it's a staged argument to drive texts to the station at 30c a pop, but his position is exactly the same hyper-cautious nonsense that will have this dragging on for months yet.