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

The real issue here is,yet again,the fortnight lead-in.

It's a very clear issue.

End the Mandates NOW.

It's so simple that even Minister Eamon Ryan was able to grasp the principle earlier in the week...ASAP = NOW.

Instead,our media have,with barefaced cheek,begun a counter campaign for prolonging the agony....

Thank God for mother nature !

One can sense the absolute disappointment of the supposed Journalists in the flurry of so-called vox-pop's asking "their" readers to bemoan this new threat to their wellbeing....

https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/health-family/to-resume-living-we-need-the-help-of-others-to-keep-us-safe-readers-on-face-mask-rules-1.4805453

The real end to this stuff comes only when the Emergency Legislation is repealed,again should be happening TODAY,but instead we hear very little about this stuff being left silently ticking away,awaiting the next terrified Minister's dip into it's Total Power folder.

In the meantime,I am going outside to tie my one remaining grubby piece of elastic & cloth to my Car Radio aerial,in the manner of a Jolly Roger....I may be quite sometime....😉

It's not a fortnight, it's a week on Monday and there is a process to follow and a Cabinet meeting to accept the advice. As irritating as they are they are one of the least onerous things we've had to put with. Most people can put up with another week of them and for those who can't there shouldn't be too much blowback in the likes of retail if they ditch them early.

Interesting to see people scurrying about in the midst of a CODE RED ! storm,desperately attempting to keep the cloth attached to their heads.......100+KPH winds will attend to Covid perfectly well without the assistance of the bitta cloth....😷

Ah, Neil Ferguson the modelling genius, whose work in wrongly guessing huge case numbers largely encouraged countries to do as they did. I'd cut them slack in the first lockdown, it was very much a pause to process a new pathogen. Sure, they were overused in the two years but I am disappointed not to see your own brilliant strategy. Bear in mind we've seen both ends of the spectrum from the loose Swedish approach to the Antipodean border closures. I tend to leave China out of this because they will do whatever they want.

Agree, one would have to ask what is the objective?

These people have recovered from Covid, they’re not at risk for many months of another Covid infection. The booster doesn’t protect against current strains and indeed I don’t see any data or studies showing the necessity for a booster of the Wuhan strain following a primary vaccination course and subsequent recovery from Omicron. Avoidance of binning vaccines?

The write-off is one thing for sure. Another, and I know that this could sound very CT-esque, is that experiment is not finished. The aim may be to go through the full course of vaccines to gather the data and information on the mRNA. This may be very useful to improve the technology and step up the level of its maturity, so that when the next pandemic comes along …

Those people who had their infection confirmed by an antigen test and who are struggling now to receive their recovery certs should be offered a test for presence of anti-bodies, and have their infection confirmed that way. But no, coercion has been and continues to be the way the ruling elites manage the plebs.

That's nonsense to be honest. They have demonstrated that they can move within 24 hours (or less!) if they want to in the past. There's no reason for this to drag on at all, and certainly not beyond Tuesday next when the cabinet meets.

This isn't giving businesses and people time to put new measures in place. This is to simply remove the legal requirement for masks.

I think they've bowed to the likes of Pat Kenny and his listeners, and the nervous types on Twitter to drag it on to the latest point possible without having to extend/renew the existing legislation.

Someone asked why would you listen to the likes of Pat Kenny if he bothers you - because like him or not, he and his listeners are part of a demographic that FF/FG very much want to appeal to come election time.

All this is is more appeasing of those who still think it's March 2020 and who think their (in most cases) unwarranted anxieties are justification enough to pressure the decision makers into yet another unnecessary delay in returning to normality.

It's great to now sit down and rethink all the **** stupidy of our nation response to this and this bloody fourm. I'm guilty of been stupid in some of my comments but tbh it was a mentality beat into us by our leaders and glorious media who have every chance wanted to instil fear

No, it wasn't a mentality beaten into you, it was you spouting doom gloom and making up scenarios then trying to blame NPHET and the evil Dr Tony.

Follow your own advice and take personal responsibility.

Nope, it was all you, making stuff up.

You have just described a typical profile of those who lobbied for the zero covid, lockdown, flatten the curve etc. strategy. Those guys actually are coming out of this better and wealthier (their properties are worth more now than before the pandemic).

It is very typical of the pandemic response, you must admit.

We all know the masks are useless against Omicron.

We all know that NPHET have said they can go.

We all know that government are going to let them go.

But lets all wait another couple of weeks anyway, because thats just how things work around here.

He probably meant 120,000 ?

Apologies for the length,but it's important to be fair to the metaphorical Professor...

It's important also to review these things,in order to allow everybody,even professionals to...reflect ?....

Total Deaths: 6373

Total Confirmed: 6079

Total with underlying conditions : 5270

Relevance ?....I dunno...suppose it's up to yourself really ?

I've been done with the masks for weeks now anyway