I was talking to a friend in Sydney last night and he was saying they have been pretty much back to normal since May. Some indoor places have limits of 250 but thatās a lot like.
Itās probably not possible here but we need a radical change of strategy.
What we are at for now with no end goal, is complete insanity.
Correct, itās asperational nonsense that canāt be realistically implemented.
Itāll take months instead of weeks.
Build a wall with NI. Mandatory two week quarantine for anyone coming into the country?
We are an island at the edge of Europe with a common travel area with the UK.
We have spent the last number of years telling anyone who will listen that we cannot possibly have a hard border with NI.
17% of the people born in Ireland live abroad and 17% of the people living in Ireland are from abroad.
The most open and international economy in the world.
The EU = free travel.
A few reasons there why shutting ourselves off from the rest of the world to pursue zero covid is not feasible.
Itās summer in Sydney
We are at the end goal. Weāre not doing very well at it yet but this is what living with covid looks like. Moving up and down levels trying to keep the infection rate at manageable levels. We might get better at fine tuning it but this is it.
Weāll be at this for a good two years. A year for a vaccine (optimistically) and a year to get it out to people.
I donāt think youāve thought the concept of āzeroā covid through.
What is it in Siam?
Whatās the plan now though? I think itās better than the current one. Iād gladly never leave the country again if everything went back to normal. As it is Iām not going to leave anyway and thereās takes of restrictions anyway. There is literally no end game to the current approach
Why are humans always obsessed with solutions? Sometimes there arenāt any and we need to live with that.
The north basically fucks any attempt at a joined up all island strategy.
I definitely havenāt youāre right. I actually havenāt given it a seconds thought. It just popped into my head there reading through the same things over and over on this thread and just thought Iād pop it out there to mix things up a bit.
How many times were you called stupid etc etc
There is literally no point in our existence without a solution to this.
Jesus wept
I enjoyed my couple of days in Gorey last week chief.
Just as well you got out while the going was good.
I got a lot of lip for it in the space of five minutes when the reality is nobody has a fucking clue what the best or right thing to do is. Not the TFK experts or the real experts
But we do know zero Covid cannot be achieved in any western country, because no matter what restrictions have been tried Covid continues to spread. Paris had one of the strictest lockdowns in March - June and is now imposing a curfew.
