At this stage we need to focus on whatâs important, weâll take care of the kids first, then get business up and running with state support, the rest is gravy and it will come i good time.
Hold on now. I have worked with enough people who lost s partner, child or parent. I can recall one person taking 4 weeks before a part time then full time return after the death.
The CMO at the time of the biggest health crisis ever in thisbstate had disappeared for a couple.of months. He should be getting his cards
They give their advice but they also lobby for it. They get their spiel out first and feed off peoples deep mistrust for government. They have a daily platform on national TV which no one else has to the same extent. If you transported anyone into the country and they had never heard of NPHET they would think they are the politicians. You can hear it from their own pronouncements where they literally say things like âwe can have a good outdoors summerâ. Its there staring us in the face but govt are too scared to do anything about it and will continue writing the blank cheques. Governemnt wonât do anything to diverge from NPHET until they get the moral authority from the people which looks in short supply judging by the polls.
I dunno. Thereâs a numbness and acceptance that has taken hold and itâs demoralising. We have the government we deserve, thatâs the way the people voted in 2020 - for everything and for nothing. The next 36 months will undoubtedly see austerity by stealth and will be explained away with âshur, what can we do, twas the pandemicâ
Iâd have no reason to expect that, give or take a few seats here and there, the next DĂĄĂl will have a fairly similar makeup. Irish governments have historically reacted to crises in a kneejerk and panicked manner - the overnight bailing out of banks, for example.
The long-term effects of this will be ominous. Elderly people, the FFG base, have been terrified for a year and no amount of vaccine will ever undo that. People are going to get hit in the pocket but good. Lockdown will be the default future position of any pressure on the dysfunctional health service.
One would wonder if more responsibility should be devolved to local authorities. People who make decisions will tread more carefully if they are more directly and locally accountable. Central government has failed and failed utterly.
Now youâre fucking talking⌠TDs hiding above in Dublin thinking they are unaccountable - those days need to end. Politics as we know it does not and will not ever work, too much vested interest⌠what have non government TDs been doing for the last year, working ferociously for their constituents I suppose?