Kimmagegirl
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Agreed it is frustrating but the latest from NPHET suggests that people are not observing all the rules and staying at home. Mobility is increasing, as are the number of contacts. That suggests that the real reason is simply peoples behaviour.Most people I know are observing all the rules and staying at home. Yet the new cases are over 500 every day. Where are they coming from? How are they spreading?
Which proves that lockdowns one year later are no longer effective.Agreed it is frustrating but the latest from NPHET suggests that people are not observing all the rules and staying at home. Mobility is increasing, as are the number of contacts. That suggests that the real reason is simply peoples behaviour.
Well this certainly doesn't helpWhy are our case numbers so high? We have been in level 5 lockdown for months. Most people I know are observing all the rules and staying at home. Yet the new cases are over 500 every day. Where are they coming from? How are they spreading?
The B117 (UK) strain is more contagious. That's why.Where are they coming from? How are they spreading?
It proves nothing until you can prove the counterfactual of what would happen without a lockdown. Which is of course impossible. Unfortunately, proof is hard to come by in these unusual circumstances.Which proves that lockdowns one year later are no longer effective.
When the only tool you have in your toolbox is a hammer
everything looks like a nail.
They need to get that new tool, more vaccines
Which proves that lockdowns one year later are no longer effective.
Zero covid is last year's news, and we did not achieve it, it requires a totality of response down to minutae which our state has no history of, sure quarantine even with the meagre number of travellers entering is still not in place now and that's after months of talking about it. The only realistic target is to keep new cases under a thousand a day, speed up vaccinations as much as possible and open.up what we can under those limits. The problem with nphet is that they were always trying to get to unrealistic targets and then blaming people in general when they were not achieved. A climate of extreme negativity built up which meant that people lost hope and the good intentions on.the first lockdown were impossible to replicate againWhen following a “living with the virus” approach, lockdowns work when they are in place and stop working soon after they’re lifted.
They’re exceptionally effective with following a “Zero Covid” strategy.
Virus reparations.Haven't heard that one before ...With Ireland being so exposed to the UK and UK strain for the recent upsurge, how forcefully did Michael martin make this point if at all with boris Johnson.
Do the math? I didn't do honours maths and can't fathom the above.One more thing that has bother me is the lazy way RTE interview the politicians. Last January a nice asking of Leo about the issue of travel as a source was put down with a tut tut and a don't be blaming those that travel as its really US that are just not behaving. December there was no UK Variant but by end of February 90% of all cases are now reported as UK Variant. So Leo, how about some math, 1+1 is 2, 2+2 is 4, and so on so the 91 year old who gets it and transfers it is number 10,000. But serious travel control means 0+0 is 0, and 0+0 is 0. 3 people travelled all the way from Brazil through some other countries to get here and low and behold they are carrying the Brazilian strain. do the math Leo
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