Brendan Burgess
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Ah here , "the government should know , that's their job ".It's the same in the UK. Politicians and commentators criticising the uncertainty in the government's plans.
Demanding an exact plan for Leaving Cert exams for example.
This criticism is not justified.
The path of the pandemic cannot be predicted.
The uncertainty is uncomfortable, but it's much better that the government and NPHET says "we don't know" than give people a false certainty now and dash their hopes later.
The vaccination depends on the smooth delivery of vaccines. The Minister for Health can only say "We will vaccinate X people by the end of June if the vaccines are delivered as scheduled."
Brendan
Last week we had one saying that we will reopen in March and then someone else said April and then it was mid summer. They would have been better saying nothing at all as that .
Yes, the far Left of Sinn Fein and the basket of crazies in the Solidarity/ PBP/Rise/AAA/Whatever-you're-having-yourself have a casual enough relationship with reality and the hysterical media coverage, particularly by RTE and anything Matt Cooper hosts, feeds into it.I think a part of the problem here is how politics has become more obviously adversarial. It may well have been so all along, but mass traditional and social media coverage has put it front and center. Years ago, very few bothered to read about what was going on in the chambers.
A large cohort of opposition politicians just oppose everything the incumbents say at every opportunity. They demand the impossible knowing well they won't get called out for it and it plays well with the masses.
We need new people at the top to get us out of this.
I remember seeing that I was in Cohort 4 for the first vaccinations. Then it slipped to Cohort 5 and now I see that I am in Cohort 6.
Are there new cohorts being introduced to match the number of vaccines available. Is this a way to slow down the rollout by creating new groups and pushing our expectations back?
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