Coronavirus - Remain Calm. Do Not Panic

I haven’t watched anything he has posted in months and months. But I gather he found a listening audience and is desperately trying to keep the content coming and stay relevant 

But England were virtually open bar large scale events. Indoor dining/pubs and more at events are definitely not going to lead us to a Christmas style catastrophe. We have to keep opening up somewhat, we can't continue to be this risk aversive for ever. As Mayo Mark said the non fully vaccinated are not the ones that generally end up in hospital. Cases don't matter as much now.

The FF candidate for Dublin Bay South basically confirmed what I thought all along (the coment along with the video is a bit dramatic mind you). NPHET are giving their guidance and they are following no matter what. This is absolutely disastrous for many industries at present for many industries that need to start reopening. NPHET have one remit which is fair enough but the government should be also mindful of other interests if they weren't so rudderless. The buck stops with the government and they need to make the decisions

https://twitter.com/JRD0000/status/1407619767985479684?

Sorry I meant the fully vaccinated people aren't the ones that usually end up in hospital

Should we really hold up things further because young adults are having a small headache and runny nose? Does it matter too much if that illness goes around like wildfire? everyone gets a little sick at some stage in any given year. It's healthy for our immune system i'm sure. 

I think any decision now would be based on ifs and buts rather than strong evidence that we are going to enter another wave if we reopen. 

Even looking to the UK, what they delayed was a full reopening, no social distancing, no masks. What we are talking about is still a level of social distancing and masks getting to the table, etc. 

The restrictions were always about protecting our vulnerable and keeping numbers down and we are currently there and unless some super duper variant comes along, I don't think we will go backwards. 

The only small justification would be people in the 60-70 cohort are only this time and they need then whatever time, let's say 2 weeks, to be considered fully vaccinated. So that might be one small reason to say, let's wait 2 more weeks. But if they are going to go in that direction I think it's better to start making that decision immediately rather than waiting until July 1 or 2 and then giving the bad news. 

But that wouldn't be following England's lead. England has had indoor dining and pubs opened for a number of weeks. They've had crowds attending sporting events, entertainment, etc. What they postponed was a full reopening - 'Freedom Day' as they described it.

Ireland is a long way behind and given the level of vaccination that's taken place in the country, a postponement on 5th July would be difficult to justify and scarcely credible. However, no doubt the cranks at NPHET and ISAG will be pushing for further delays.

People wanted the government to be conservative, so here it is in action. 

We had the Euros robbed from us, because they didn't want to put 12k people in Lansdowne, while there are stadiums at the Euros operating at full capacity. Last week, France, Holland and a number of other European neighbours dropped the mandatory order to wear masks outdoors. They don't seem that scared of the delta variant, but Ireland is still effectively closed for business. 

None of the cities hosting the Euros seem to experiencing mass uncontrollable spikes stretching their health services to breaking point. So their governments are keeping them safe and allowing them to live their lives as well.