what a wonderfully apt typo!
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You said it was over. Did you just mean level 5 was over or are you pivoting again?
Iām not suggesting anything baselessly. I just donāt think that bringing South Africa into the argument is of relevance.
The lockdown in Ireland post Christmas did work. It saved lives. Our hospitals were nearly keeling over. Anything other than a shut down of the society would have resulted in more and more cases. The lockdown was needed at that time.
Iām not for lockdowns as a full time management tool for this. But acute situations have arisen and we needed an intervention against this ferocious opponent in those circumstances. To say anything else in the Irish context of that time defies logic to me.
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and where was the expanded ICU capacity and test and trace that weād been promised to alleviate this exact thing?
No āLevel 5 lockdownā seems to be a bit of a climbdown from what you were previously saying
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I was ballhopping you lunatic, just having a bit of fun, I canāt believe I have to explain this.
I firmly believe it is coming to an end quite soon, gradual opening up beginning in a few weeks, then as the vaccinations continue the relaxation follows,
Itās quite odd how much attention my posts receive
Could people stop bringing up India and Brazil. Do you think either country can tell itās population to work from home? Give everyone a check or pay 20% of the population unemployment?
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That was a very specific reply to @The_Most_Infamous, maybe read his post before you get your knickers in a twist,
Thereās good money to be made
Donāt let it go to your head whatever you do
So you donāt think comparing how a country where a wave of Covid fizzled out without a lockdown to a country where a wave of Covid fizzled out with a lockdown is relevant.
Therefore you donāt want to look at the real impact of lockdown.
How did it work? How did it save lives? That is purely speculative. 160k more cases of Covid happened after lockdown, 2.6k more deaths. There is no basis to definitively support what youāre saying. If lockdowns worked why were they having daily cases of 1,300 6 weeks after Level 5 had been introduced?
Your thoughts on this seem to be all over the place. You think itās basically over yet seem to be aligning yourself with the opinion that we canāt open up until every person is fully vaccinated
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Ok, Iām not a gambling man but Iāll take up your offer.
Lets say 500 euro then, agreed? I donāt want to take too much money off a teacher.
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The mad bastards trampling each other to swim in a shit infested river in their thousands, they will be told to stay at home alright!
Sure what does āa countryā even mean. If weāve learnt anything (and Iām not saying we have)itās that covid is no respecter of borders and boundaries
Why canāt he think those two things? We are not very far away from most people being vaccinated, and he considers that nearly over. Makes sense to me.
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Iām sure we could have done more on expanding ICU capacity. But that wouldnāt have been a solution against a virus that keeps doubling if left unchecked.
Everybody includes children surely?
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500 it is then, if thats what you want.
there will be no equivalent to current level 5 lockdown next winter.thats november through January right?