Drawing the schools and childcare/early years services reopening out over the period of 5 weeks is very transparent.
âWe canât do anything else until we see the full impact of the schools reopening.â
That takes them from now up to the Easter holidays.
Allowing some outdoor meet ups with more than 1 other person and a return to sport/hobbies in pods or whatever (especially for children) would be easy wins now and relatively safe. It might actually encourage people to stick with the other less palatable stuff for longer, while the vaccines are being rolled out.
As it is, the complete mismanagement of things allied with contradictory statements and a series of leaks has meant that compliance has broken down to a large extent already.
Thereâs been a few mentions that they donât want to put formal dates on things because people see a date in the future and start doing the stuff straight away. That may have held in lockdown 1 or 2, but theyâve had long enough to get it right at this stage.
If anything, not putting dates (or parameters like numbers in ICU) on things is making people sayâŚfuck this, Iâm doing my own thing. I know that was the case for us in booking our holidays in May.
Martin was going on about enhanced contact tracing the other week. He has decided to become a Super Covider. NPHET and himself do not want to commit to Zero Covid because they know itâs not achievable but want to use pretty much all the same tactics there on society to keep Covid low as the public canât accept mortality.
The public are fickle though and as you say, want freedom too. The proportionate response to these two competing aims is to go for outdoor activities like you say and level with people on them still having some risk, even if a lot lower.
It just shows that when you live around affluence and civilization how you donât need to travel too far from home at all. Youâd feel for the shit kickers who live out the country
I was talking to a friend on the phone last night, I think heâs having a complete mental breakdown, Tassotti-level. He just doesnât understand how Ireland is the worst country in the entire world for vaccine roll-out Tank, the worst country in the world for fucking everything, every single metric. Everything in the country is a kip. Tony Holohan is a fucking creep Tank, he couldnât even say he was sorry to the cervical check women. Holohan should be in prison. Fucking housing minister has introduced some new rules and they say itâs going to actually increase the cost of housing! Every politician just supports the status quo, which is about keeping the rich rich and the little man down and everyone just accepts that. We wonât even get going to Connemara for our holidays this year, weâll be stuck camping up the top of Bragan Mountain. If weâre lucky. You know this country just needs a fucking dictatorship is what it needs! Sort it the fuck out!
He has no craic himself, not one single exciting or interesting thing has happened since Christmas. Fucking nothing Tank.
I asked him if he wanted to meet for a few cans and he said no, not until the restrictions are eased. My friend is overweight and has been shitting his pants over Covid since day one. If I canât meet him face to face and heâs an insufferable bollocks to talk to over the phone then I donât know what I can do for him.
