How I envy the UK. You Brits should build a statue for Boris Johnson.
How is the hospitalization rate/icu usage? I do feel like in a highly vaccinated population those stats matter more
Seems a trend after another shot or booster.
Is that really necessary? Just goes to show that for those European countries with high vaccine coverage, reintroducing restrictions is political and nothing else.
Diverting attention to an ever dwindling number of unvaccinated people isn’t a good enough excuse.
Wtf. 🤷♂️
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Funny how countries in the world with the highest vaccination rates (Portugal, Singapore, Canada, soon Australia etc) also have the highest possibility of vaccine mandates for boosters, lockdowns, restrictions etc
Damn, I’m not an antivaxxer, but this shit is starting to get really sus. Commooon, the most vaccinated nation in Europe puts 2020s restrictions back. So what is the point of vaccinating then, if you still have to go through that shit?
I have 2 shots but i wont continue with this circus green pass
“Vaccines are our way out of this”.
Ever get the feeling we’ve been had?
For those who want to cut to the chase, here are the new rules stated in the article:
•Arriving airline passengers now need a negative test.
•Vaccine certificate needed to enter hotels, restaurants, gyms, and cultural events.
•Masks required for indoor public spaces
•Negative test required to enter care homes, bars, hospitals, dance halls, and big cultural or sports events.
Also, from January 2-9, work from home, bars closed, and school holidays extended.
Honestly, it doesn’t seem that restrictive compared to other countries, especially for the vaccinated (which are the overwhelming majority in Portugal).
Japan with a population 12 times the size of Portugal has fewer than 150 daily new infections even though the vaccination rate is lower and living conditions, especially public transport, make social distancing very hard.
Even before the pandemic, it was possible to see people wearing masks during the flu season. Japanese don’t have problems wearing masks to protect themselves and others.
Westerners behave as it were an imposition on their freedom. Even in Portugal, where masks are still worn in most public indoor places, I don’t know a single person who wears masks consistently. I won’t go into the numerous ways in which people formally comply with the mask mandate while wearing it in a way so as to make it useless.
The vaccines aren’t a silver bullet. The vaccines gave us a way out off the pandemic IF people had continued to exercise caution. But no, all the pain of the lockdowns, the deaths, the disease, the economic pain, the enormous public effort to develop vaccines, bail out companies and put people on paid leave, …., it’s all blown out of the window because people behave like spoiled brats.
If countries in europe go for restrictions and lockdowns then they basically admit that vaccine failed… and its going to get harder to vaccinate more people in the future.
they are a bunch of idiots… they have to realise that during the winter they have to increase hospital capacity in some way instead of restrictions.
Its time to cope with corona virus like in the US and admit that some people are going to die from this thing each year.
Yeah, in the future just write what the restrictions are.
Lots of people didn’t read and are assuming it’s some kind of lockdown. It’s basically about masks, vaccine pass and need of testing in some situations.
86.6% vaccinated
But it’s ok, just two more weeks then it’s back to normal for sure this time :^)
Nobody here seems to understand what the point of restrictions are.
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How I envy the UK. You Brits should build a statue for Boris Johnson.
How is the hospitalization rate/icu usage? I do feel like in a highly vaccinated population those stats matter more
Seems a trend after another shot or booster.
Is that really necessary? Just goes to show that for those European countries with high vaccine coverage, reintroducing restrictions is political and nothing else.
Diverting attention to an ever dwindling number of unvaccinated people isn’t a good enough excuse.
Wtf. 🤷♂️
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Funny how countries in the world with the highest vaccination rates (Portugal, Singapore, Canada, soon Australia etc) also have the highest possibility of vaccine mandates for boosters, lockdowns, restrictions etc
Damn, I’m not an antivaxxer, but this shit is starting to get really sus. Commooon, the most vaccinated nation in Europe puts 2020s restrictions back. So what is the point of vaccinating then, if you still have to go through that shit?
I have 2 shots but i wont continue with this circus green pass
“Vaccines are our way out of this”.
Ever get the feeling we’ve been had?
For those who want to cut to the chase, here are the new rules stated in the article:
•Arriving airline passengers now need a negative test.
•Vaccine certificate needed to enter hotels, restaurants, gyms, and cultural events.
•Masks required for indoor public spaces
•Negative test required to enter care homes, bars, hospitals, dance halls, and big cultural or sports events.
Also, from January 2-9, work from home, bars closed, and school holidays extended.
Honestly, it doesn’t seem that restrictive compared to other countries, especially for the vaccinated (which are the overwhelming majority in Portugal).
Japan with a population 12 times the size of Portugal has fewer than 150 daily new infections even though the vaccination rate is lower and living conditions, especially public transport, make social distancing very hard.
Even before the pandemic, it was possible to see people wearing masks during the flu season. Japanese don’t have problems wearing masks to protect themselves and others.
Westerners behave as it were an imposition on their freedom. Even in Portugal, where masks are still worn in most public indoor places, I don’t know a single person who wears masks consistently. I won’t go into the numerous ways in which people formally comply with the mask mandate while wearing it in a way so as to make it useless.
The vaccines aren’t a silver bullet. The vaccines gave us a way out off the pandemic IF people had continued to exercise caution. But no, all the pain of the lockdowns, the deaths, the disease, the economic pain, the enormous public effort to develop vaccines, bail out companies and put people on paid leave, …., it’s all blown out of the window because people behave like spoiled brats.
If countries in europe go for restrictions and lockdowns then they basically admit that vaccine failed… and its going to get harder to vaccinate more people in the future.
they are a bunch of idiots… they have to realise that during the winter they have to increase hospital capacity in some way instead of restrictions.
Its time to cope with corona virus like in the US and admit that some people are going to die from this thing each year.
Yeah, in the future just write what the restrictions are.
Lots of people didn’t read and are assuming it’s some kind of lockdown. It’s basically about masks, vaccine pass and need of testing in some situations.
86.6% vaccinated
But it’s ok, just two more weeks then it’s back to normal for sure this time :^)
Nobody here seems to understand what the point of restrictions are.