Some lads on here are obsessed with covid threads
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You need to relax
3 years time
The Irish ambassador in Washington been asked to step aside so Mee-hawl can be made
ambassador to make up for no Patrick’s day trip in 2’21.
Hang your head
44 and counting, including these two threads. Will fellas not spare a thought for the poor jiggabytes on @Rocko’s server.
Universal basic income.
Lower home ownership.
More inequality.
Greater government control and potentially rolling lockdowns versus every variant of a respitory virus that we face going forward.
Digital vaccine certificates
Further transfer of wealth from Amazon etc from your family run SME’s.
Huge profit for Pzizer, Moderna, Oxford Astra Zeneca etc
To name just a few I reckon.
Mass emigration. I think a lot of people who came when their countries were admitted to the EU particularly from Eastern European countries will return home or at least work in another European country which will be on same land mass and not rely on air travel to get home. We will probably see plenty of outward migration of young people as well seeking a better quality of life. I’m not sure there is another country in the world who have had as harsh conditions as us. Literally anywhere would be better. North America, Canada and Middle East probably popular landing spots.
The living wage is going to get snuck in here under the radar to make work more attractive and get people off the PUP…
Universal sick pay also being looked at
And auto enrolment on pensions…
All of above are brilliant developments for the employee in this country but have the potential to cripple small business…
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But we have some of the mildest weather, that’s going to be a huge factor as people are forced out of areas due to climate change.
UK?
They are all locked in their houses in Toronto as well. Although they always are around this time of year
Yeah I am not sure about UK Im sure they will be back up and running in no time. But Brexit now throws a spanner in the works. New trade deals with some APAC countries with big markets offer a lot of hope for them. If Scotland secede from the union in next few years we could be in right trouble from a FDI standpoint. It is the only thing keeping the lights on in this country. The SME sector has been driven into the ground. Most budgets would have not factored in being closed for half of 2021. People say we can borrow at 0% ignore the fact that structurally the budget deficit could become a long term one. Social welfare supports become permanent, long term unemployment etc.
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It differs from province to province. I’ve a brother in Vancouver and they have very limited restrictions. Can drink in a bar with people from 2 households. Things like that.
What we are effectively doing is adopting a zero covid strategy but govt and NPHET just forgot to tell anyone. They said it was unrealistic a few weeks ago but are going with a diet zero covid with allowing a few classes back to school to be seen to be doing something. This incompetence 12 months later is as a direct result of people being blase about their personal freedoms and a morally reprehensible media. The thing about personal freedoms is when you give an inch they will take a mile and they’ll row back with millimetres. Cunts.
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I liked that bit from braveheart where William went round killing all the Scottish lords that betrayed him.
I’m hoping, that with some well placed incitement and riling, @Corksfinedtboy will break into the houses of tony, meehawl, claire byrne etc, in the dead of night and drop his massive balls onto the bastards, thereby killing them stone dead.
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Politicans will always look at the way the wind is blowing.
The general public approx 60% of them anyway want more restrictions not less and the so called opposition are calling for same, so their hands are tied to an extent.
Critical thinking on this is out the window - you’ve a lad this evening here saying we should be greatfull we’re not living through the famine again ffs.
I personally don’t think we are halfway through this yet and when we do eventually move out of it. Climate Change restrictions could be just as draconian.
The cats out of the bag in terms of peoples freedoms - very hard to get that back - multiple booster shots or not.
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Yeah we have crossed the rubicon with this now. Lockdowns indefinitely to avoid lockdowns. But the 60% you quoted have been systematically brainwashed.
Every other country in Europe will be open before we are. By the time the 9 week extension is up we will have been in level 5 lockdown for 25 out of 28 preceding weeks. Will this be replicated in any other country despotic or banana republics even?
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Its coming up on the year anniversary now for the 3 weeks to flatten the curve mate.
We’ll be the last out of our peers in Europe to open up, and per population it won’t make one difference to our covid numbers overall anyway by the look of it.
Its a shambles thats going to keep running unfortunately.
But people can pinpoint the 2 weeks where some people socialised 2 months ago as the cause. Rinse and repeat.
No blame will ever be put to the nursing homes were over half of the deaths are or the hospitals were another third of the cases have been transmitted.
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