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

Myself and others have been saying that for a while now. I do like the recent positive uptake from experts. Every day it is getting harder for officials to maintain restrictions. There is now a broad spectrum of support for most of the current restrictions to be lifted from the beginning of february. That will just increase. I was already feeling it tilted a week or 10 days ago.

The irony is that Omicron seems to be as transmissible as the Measles. If this had happened in the beginning we would have had the same kind of restrictions now. If you dont want to catch it stay home. if i was in a high risk group and unvaccinated i wouldnt leave my frontdoor atm. Your chance of contracting Omicron is huge.Vaccines have helped a lot. Boosters mainly helpful for vulnerable people.The unvaccinated should be free of restrictions and the Covid pass should be scrapped, starting domestically. My wife thinks she contracted Covid in January 2020 while on a seminar in India and came back with most Covid symptoms that lasted for a month. She has been reluctant to get vaccinated. She cant get into a coffeeshop or restaurant. Why owners still checking the cert beats me. They should just stop doing that.

Your not going to hear that talk.

Masks and certs will probably be the last to go and they probably aren't going in February.

Whatever your opinion on them government have always seen those 2 as a light touch restriction

It's light touch in that it's a seen to be doing something that really requires no effort from government.

Not saying I agree with it, there's little need for them now, they should probably go domestically but we know they won't yet.

Masks and certs rules will lose their significance once people start not following them. It is happening already and will continue especially with the current trajectory. Omicron the tipping point. No way to police them.

Personally from being out and about I'm not seeing less people using masks, maybe other areas are different but from being around dublin and the suburbs I can't say I've seen less people using them.

Certs is hit and miss, has been from day 1.

Whatever it being a waffly non answer, I caught a bit of it driving home and the interview was a complete car crash

I have found that people are now so 'over covid' both physically and mentally, that they no longer want to talk about it..nor or are they 'angry' at the restrictions..they are compliant for a simple life... to me, this is more dangerous, people have their passes, they comply along like its no big deal... a huge chunk of the population do not know or care when and if the emergency legislation gets renewed..they have no interest any more and they are burnt out.. to me this so much more dangerous as the government can keep promising and drip feeding us good news.. and people will react in the way to just roll with it as all will be OK by the summer or what's another few weeks.. etc etc.

I feel if by the end of the month if this shitshow continues...we are in trouble...every winter we will have this shite..and it's not a future or a 'normal' I want for me or my children..

I was so full of hope til I saw the tweets of no certainty of life getting back to normal..its disheartening

Yep. I know plenty of people who will give out about how unethical the passes are, but who will gladly use them to get into a restaurant or take a flight while the (according to them) unethical treatment of the unvaccinated continues.

It's amazing how much covid filled a void in so many peoples lives..I also find some people are actually JEALOUS of non vaccinated people getting recover passes...as if they still don't deserve to be a part of society ..cos they didn't get vaccinated.. its all so bizarre...alot of people wont let go of this.. and this encourages NPHET too unfortunately..Its a very toxic situation..

100%...its almost as if they feel 'unclean' and that's how it has been drilled into people's minds..if you caught it, it's because you clearly didnt follow the rules...🙄

Most people are no longer afraid of the virus..but they don't want to be responsible or to be known as the 'one who passed it on'..and this is the core of why the restrictions will stay alot longer than anyone wants..in my opinion..its the fear of judgement now, not actual illness..

I don't really have "wants" about other people's behaviour. It seems like a pointless and unavoidably frustrating endeavour. But I do know a handful of people who take the position that they will not use the domestic covid pass and will take whatever consequences for that there are (not going to places that require them, testing before flights rather than showing them, giving more business to places that refuse to be complicit, etc.). I respect those people.