Paul O Mahoney
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I was out yesterday, good bright day, so, I walked to the green grocer and my wife would pick me up afterwards.
While I was waiting in the queue to pay, outside a group of young adults literally thundered down the pavement, all in great form and pushing and shoving each. It was outside so, I thought nothing of it but I went to another shop and they had multiplied by a factor of 3 and were really acting up, throwing exploding bangers or squirting that stringy stuff at each other, not a mask to be seen, hand holding, snogging the works.
I was young once too and ordinarily wouldn't give much thought to this, but we are in a pandemic and if this is an example either the message isn't getting through or its been ignored.
Life has to go on, but is it also the responsibility of everyone to do their bit, and it's not a big ask , 3000 cases yesterday and hospitalisations increasing and fun isn't banned, yet, but responsibility appears to be lost.
I can see 3.5/4 k cases per day soon, what then? We are only entering winter , the Government will not be quick to reintroduce severe restrictions but honestly I can't see us escaping them.
Then the usual decrying will begin but nobody will be responsible we hear the usual " the health system is a mess" blah blah blah , it is a mess but why anyone would want to become messier is beyond my understanding.
While I was waiting in the queue to pay, outside a group of young adults literally thundered down the pavement, all in great form and pushing and shoving each. It was outside so, I thought nothing of it but I went to another shop and they had multiplied by a factor of 3 and were really acting up, throwing exploding bangers or squirting that stringy stuff at each other, not a mask to be seen, hand holding, snogging the works.
I was young once too and ordinarily wouldn't give much thought to this, but we are in a pandemic and if this is an example either the message isn't getting through or its been ignored.
Life has to go on, but is it also the responsibility of everyone to do their bit, and it's not a big ask , 3000 cases yesterday and hospitalisations increasing and fun isn't banned, yet, but responsibility appears to be lost.
I can see 3.5/4 k cases per day soon, what then? We are only entering winter , the Government will not be quick to reintroduce severe restrictions but honestly I can't see us escaping them.
Then the usual decrying will begin but nobody will be responsible we hear the usual " the health system is a mess" blah blah blah , it is a mess but why anyone would want to become messier is beyond my understanding.