Hospital numbers have stabilised? I thought they were around 390 on Christmas Eve. They’re nearly 700
You’ve jinxed in now. Couldn’t keep your mouth shut, eh?
Amazing! We now have a strategy that doesn’t overwhelm the health service and doesn’t cause people with non Covid related illnesses to be unable to get treatment. We should share our new strategy with the world! If only we had this magical approach two years ago.
Am I losing my memory or were there only 3 lockdowns? One in March 2020, one at the end of October 2020 and one again after Christmas 2020?
A lockdown now would be pointless due to the rapid rate of boosters and rapid infection rate.
‘The reference to waste refers to the €375m of taxpayers’ money that was ‘flushed down the toilet’ during the scramble for PPE equipment early on. That is the amount written off by the Comptroller and Auditor General on gear that was unusable.’
Jeepers! That’s a LOT of money wasted.
That different approach is literally happening right now. Over the last week there has been record breaking case numbers with very little covid restrictions compared to other waves.
A lockUP!
The number of cases being so high seems like a tipping point. Once this wave subsides it’ll be hard to justify more lockdowns based on case numbers.
We need to stretch this one out, the booster effect hasn’t even kicked in fully yet as only now its open for 16s and over.
Standby for abuse of this lad for being a nazi Satan spawn anti vaxxer
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We are taking a different approach. We’re just letting it run loose while the government sits on their hands like it’s all fine. And it’s going absolutely fantastic right about now.
We don’t need a lockdown. We can have a functioning society and economy while also taking effective measures. Unfortunately in this country we seem to think we can only do one of the two.
We never had more than 1 strict lockdown
McConnell’s primary problem is and always has been with NPHET being the tail that wags the dog in it’s dealings with government. The problem is that the government is happy to present NPHET front and center when it wants to introduce politically unpopular restrictions. But Government isn’t so keen to clearly state any loosening or new restrictions aren’t recommended by NPHET, but instead are some sort of political compromise with any scientific rationale. A case in point is the pub opening hours recently.
Politics is in no small part always being the party or person announcing good news and cutting ribbons on new developments. It is never ever about putting your hand up and saying you got it wrong, particularly when you have publicly engaged expertise in an area and got it wrong. Martin et al learned a harsh lesson last January having ignored NPHETs advice pre Christmas, and they had nowhere to run. Martin in particular was fairly contrite by March. It surprises me that the political editor of a major broadsheet can’t see the political nuance around this. It makes me think he might be doing the groundwork for a campaign of his own soon.
Give me a break from opinion columnists telling us to live with Covid, when they mean we should forget about other people dying of Covid.
Last year we waited until after Christmas before we had a soft lockdown, and then we had a massive surge in January. 2400 people died of Covid in January to March last year, which was more than the whole of 2020 – also more than all road deaths in ten years. This Christmas we learned nothing.
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Hospital numbers have stabilised? I thought they were around 390 on Christmas Eve. They’re nearly 700
You’ve jinxed in now. Couldn’t keep your mouth shut, eh?
Amazing! We now have a strategy that doesn’t overwhelm the health service and doesn’t cause people with non Covid related illnesses to be unable to get treatment. We should share our new strategy with the world! If only we had this magical approach two years ago.
Am I losing my memory or were there only 3 lockdowns? One in March 2020, one at the end of October 2020 and one again after Christmas 2020?
A lockdown now would be pointless due to the rapid rate of boosters and rapid infection rate.
‘The reference to waste refers to the €375m of taxpayers’ money that was ‘flushed down the toilet’ during the scramble for PPE equipment early on. That is the amount written off by the Comptroller and Auditor General on gear that was unusable.’
Jeepers! That’s a LOT of money wasted.
That different approach is literally happening right now. Over the last week there has been record breaking case numbers with very little covid restrictions compared to other waves.
A lockUP!
The number of cases being so high seems like a tipping point. Once this wave subsides it’ll be hard to justify more lockdowns based on case numbers.
We need to stretch this one out, the booster effect hasn’t even kicked in fully yet as only now its open for 16s and over.
Standby for abuse of this lad for being a nazi Satan spawn anti vaxxer
[deleted]
We are taking a different approach. We’re just letting it run loose while the government sits on their hands like it’s all fine. And it’s going absolutely fantastic right about now.
We don’t need a lockdown. We can have a functioning society and economy while also taking effective measures. Unfortunately in this country we seem to think we can only do one of the two.
We never had more than 1 strict lockdown
McConnell’s primary problem is and always has been with NPHET being the tail that wags the dog in it’s dealings with government. The problem is that the government is happy to present NPHET front and center when it wants to introduce politically unpopular restrictions. But Government isn’t so keen to clearly state any loosening or new restrictions aren’t recommended by NPHET, but instead are some sort of political compromise with any scientific rationale. A case in point is the pub opening hours recently.
Politics is in no small part always being the party or person announcing good news and cutting ribbons on new developments. It is never ever about putting your hand up and saying you got it wrong, particularly when you have publicly engaged expertise in an area and got it wrong. Martin et al learned a harsh lesson last January having ignored NPHETs advice pre Christmas, and they had nowhere to run. Martin in particular was fairly contrite by March. It surprises me that the political editor of a major broadsheet can’t see the political nuance around this. It makes me think he might be doing the groundwork for a campaign of his own soon.
Give me a break from opinion columnists telling us to live with Covid, when they mean we should forget about other people dying of Covid.
Last year we waited until after Christmas before we had a soft lockdown, and then we had a massive surge in January. 2400 people died of Covid in January to March last year, which was more than the whole of 2020 – also more than all road deaths in ten years. This Christmas we learned nothing.
A permanent lockdown