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

Yay! Positive PTH2009 is positive! Nice one fella.

Hey,hold on just a cotton pickin moment !

RTE are clinging on the the remnants of oul dacency in their Radio News,for example Lyric FM's evening bulletins regularly feature a sombre toned Eileen Dunne,topping us up with the "latest" Positive PCR & antigen Test Numbers,along with the Hospital and ICU numbers....as if everybody was still clustered around the wireless in fearful awe of the numbers.

RTE,and the semi-state sector in general are insisting on clinging to the wreck of this particular hesperous,intent on making sure that the spring and summer relaxation will be as short-lived as possible,before they can lead the charge for a NEW ! IMPROVED!! set of Emergency Restrictions for Winter 2022's 'demic,of whatever type can be found.

It's very notable that the scale of protests in other wildly overacting Euro democracies is also escalating,as people discover that Politicans reason and commonsense have succumbed to whatever was in those vials !!!

Keep em scared Eileen...keep their heads down 😶

Good thing is,we now know who Tubberiddy will have on the LLS....although were I the host,I'd slip Melinda in as well just to test the dynamic !! 😎

Your several orders of magnitude less funny than you think you are. 🙄 If you do happen to have that memory loss virus please send me some so I can forget what I just read

and yet the evidence contradicts all of your posts still.

funny how people continue to re-write everything to suit their warped, and completely factually incorrect world view/belief system.

it's over, you predicted nothing, your beliefs are just that and the evidence does not back them.

I hear on the news there that mandatory masks has been dropped up North. Hopefully this will increase the pressure to do likewise here!

There's no justification for any lingering requirements at this point. It needs to become a personal choice based on an individual's circumstances and risk assessment.

Just as people are free to wear masks wherever they want, so too must they be free not to as well.

There should be no requirements beyond what was required in 2019. Covid is not the black death. It's little more than the sniffles at this point.

Again, no one will stop anyone who wants to continue wearing masks, but expecting others to do the same "just in case" needs to end. There's no justification for it.

I thought the whole thing of partners not being allowed in had been resolved after it emerged some hospitals were still doing their own thing. That's ridiculous! These are things that should be solved in hours, not weeks and months.

I'm not sure if this has been noticed but all this authoritarian approach to this pandemic is a strong indication how the ruling elites see tackling health challenges going forward. There is a strong undercurrent driven by the belief that "tackling diseases individually won’t solve many global health challenges", won't "accelerate global health impact" and certainly won't "reduce the threat of epidemics".

What we have seen is probably first blatant attempt to take the power and control for individuals' own health away from those individuals. This has been done very successfully in some countries and possibly less so in others. This battle is not over yet.

I don't think anybody would complain about both happening at the same time but I think the way they'll go is removing masks and then look at improving maternity care in the future

Meaning we have the completely ridiculous situation where people can't be with their partners during labour but they can be together in a pub

I… Jesus, given the inconsistency of some of the rules and restrictions I could actually imagine this happening. I really hope you’re wrong and they just end the restrictions across the board.

That's not something government can actually lift though.

Masks are a regulation which government can lift whenever they see fit.

Visits to maternity hospitals or any hospitals for that matter are down to the individual hospital and or the hospital group running it not the government.

Perhaps.....and there is evidence of some "odd" behaviour in the "Corridors of Power" if this article is to be believed...

Hmmm,not ordinary Civil Servants....but SENIOR one's,all meeting to discuss this ONE aspect of the VAST amount of Emergency Legislation still clogging up the system....something's afoot ?

It's as if the article was written by a Jesuit...."indications"....."could"...."recommend". Why on Earth do a cabal of SENIOR Civil Servants need to meet to discuss this,as of now, rumour ?

Although,they may actually be discussing this looper,but don't want it made public ?

Perhaps NPHET is going to be replaced with a panel of SENIOR civil servants on an elevated stage to do recitations and play a few tunes each evening on RTE 6-1 News ?