Yes, thatâs almost certainly the case. But the more cases and infections there are the more mutations there will be and so the higher possibility of an even more deadly strain. Now I have absolutely no expertise in virology or epidemiology (I know thatâs a very un-tfk thing to admit) so I donât know where the tipping point is on a scale of âno covidâ, therefore no infections, no mutations, and high infection rates and therefore more mutations. With the further unknown of how likely it is that a very deadly version will emerge.
Personally, while I recognise that âno covidâ is pretty much unachievable, the nearer we get to it the happier Iâd be.
This is over for now or about to end. Cases are falling. Itâs seasonal maybe. Vaccinations are protecting the vulnerable so hospitalization and deaths are de minimis.
The issue now is whether if and when cases rise again in Autumn will we face another lockdown. That to me is where all the focus should be.
I donât know about the South Africa situation and taking a random country from the other side of the world with little Covid hotspots around it doesnât really adding anything.
Yes, because your government made things a lot worse by telling people it was OK to congregate indoors. But even where governments told people not to, people still did it to some degree. How many people went to mass in Ireland at Christmas?
I am not against restrictions at all. Stopping all large events, and especially indoor gatherings was the right thing to do. Educating on social distancing, masks indoors in shops, the fact it was airborne.
I think overall most populations did a reasonable job protecting the vulnerable, otherwise the death rate would have been an order of magnitude higher. I wouldnât give government a lot of credit for that though.
So you only want to have tunnel vision. You donât want to look at statistics or comparisons?
Youâre blinded to lockdowns were the right thing to do irrespective of the reality.
Thereâs no basis that lockdowns work, you look all across Europe. There are no countries who have really been able to suppress the virus through lockdowns after the initial first wave but you want to baselessly suggest they work?
Thatâs fine, youâre entitled to you opinion but you have not put anything substantive forward to support it.
Iâve been over this before,
If you are interested in making some money for next Christmas I am willing to bet whatever sum you want that we will have no level 5 lockdown next winter, just name the figure
Youâre continuing to now make false allegations about what I said.
Very Donald Trumpian of you.
See you came on here, you tried to throw your weight about, I called you out for your inability to be articulate and reasoned and you have behaved like a perpetual clown since.
You have exhibited to the whole forum that framing an intelligent argument is just beyond your grasp.
Yes I absolutely agree. And I think that we should be progressing towards that normality faster than NPHET want us to go and faster than our government will allow us to go. I think that at every stage Ireland has looked to shit things down rather than making any effort to facilitate the doing of things we can do safely.
