Covid 19 Part XXXV-956,720 ROI (5,952 deaths) 452,946 NI (3,002 deaths) (08/01) Read OP

Agree that high cases numbers made them take a cautious approach . But it should have been monitored on a bi-weekly basis. Restrictions can be imposed on the drop of a hat here anyway .

We had the SA data then a couple of weeks later we had London data .

Instead they went for the lowest hanging fruit .

It's important to remember Tony wanted the pubs, restaurants and cinemas closed at 5pm.

He wanted 8pm but used 5pm as an "opening gambit" - he bids low, government bid high, they meet in the middle. That kind of thing.

As soon as the 5pm reports leaked to the media it was as clear as day what was going to happen.

That'll happen again.

Whenever the next variant is announced, testing-upon-entering will be introduced in loads of countries and flights will be cancelled from that place. It's inevitable.

David Nabarro answering questions he'd never considered giving an opinion on before, hospitality rules in Ireland, but it's The COVID Show! Interesting that his views on boosters go against the general commentary of the WHO on them.

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The Irish Times is sinking to new depths by the day. I saw that IT headline and nearly had a seizure when I thought the WHO had said that, until I read the real quote and context. Literally, WTF is going on with the Irish Times.

It's funny how last summer lots of people were accusing Boris/the UK of being reckless by dropping masks and going back to normal. Yet I never heard anyone say the same thing about Mette Frederiksen/Denmark who went even further.

Numbers really dwindling now.

Seems as if the next step for hospitality after that appears to be a removal of everything bar checking for covid certs if the political reporters are correct.

Opening times should be back to normal straight away, 8 or 12 is fairly pointless, but I can see all of this gone through February hopefully.

Interesting few days ahead anyway before we see what comes.

It will be extended to cover those very things.

Masks in public spaces and Covid certs will need to be options available to the Government for another year to two years.

Wishing away a pandemic isn't a policy, its just foolishness. It will become endemic in its own sweet time and specific measures won't be needed at some point, but not because humankind demands it.