Coronavirus - Here for life (In high population density areas)

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It’ll fizzle out by the weekend.

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On the way down :clap::clap:

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lads in their sixties and seventies in Ireland haven’t a clue about hardship

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They’ve probably never even been unfriended on social media.

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Fergal Bowers described it as good news.

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Average number of contacts per case also down. So more good news.

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I don’t disagree from a Government perspective right now. They have to look like they are doing something but it’s gone beyond them in reality. Look at the stuff like talking about going from 5km to 2km, is that really going to make a difference?

I think a more positive message around Christmas could have helped, poo pooing the vaccine and earmarking another lockdown after three weeks “off” was not the right messaging. I said it here in November, I couldn’t see how they could reopen to the extent they hoped in December given that the November lockdown left such high numbers but they had to politically and PR wise. That includes NPHET, they knew they couldn’t keep on with tight restrictions but were in an awkward situation.

The Government have harnessed the message of no travel in summer in a relatively positive manner with Staycations, they should have been pushing harder on the Christmas thing. “Go for a meal with your Bubble but don’t be doing the usual lads Christmas dinner circuit, there’s 3 more months of this and it’s done. We’ll be vaccinating the minute after they approve it”. Instead it was Holohan talking down the vaccine, trying some more fear and the health authorities only getting around to formulating their plan. People were sick and tired of the misery and didn’t think much of Wave 2.

Anyway, we are actually in a better position than hoped even though we could well be in for a worse hospital position and worse death count than Wave 1. This would be a dreadful position without a vaccine.

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As @Bandage’s pal predicted.

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whats the latest guys/ schools closed?

dept of education have robust guidelines for distance learning?

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Yea the messaging from the start has been awful. I know circumstances change but @ironmike was bang on the money. It is very frustrating. Listening to Micheal Martin make assurances about leaving cert today was like Deja Vu. There was a time when they were going to offer tax rebates to people who spent money on staycations after 1st of October last year only for them to close the country down from middle of October to December. 1,000 cases seems to be the watermark at which panic mode sets in. We will be some time getting below that again.

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Storm the castle time.

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This is for the rest of our lives

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What’s this kango nonsense you keep mentioning?

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@Batigol is predicting restrictions next winter too

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There will be riots and anarchy if that comes to pass. Inevitably the revolution will come.

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All depends why. By the looks of things at that stage we might just have the equivalent of the population of the achill islands vaccinated and we may be "turning a corner "

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We appear to have opened a Pandoras box. Turns out a vast bulk of the population don’t really mind living a life half lived

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Sure any warnings are dismissed as conspiracy. They can do whatever they want now.

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Nobody shouted stop