Brendan Burgess
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We've actually bailed out their employees far more.We have bailed out pubs, restaurants and other businesses and they are still complaining.
This is an extraordinary headline in the Irish Times
Why are we so angry with the Government and Nphet?
Psychology can help us develop better responses to pandemic twists and turnswww.irishtimes.com
I am not angry with the government and nphet.
We have bailed out pubs, restaurants and other businesses and they are still complaining.
They might be angry, but I am not.
I understand that it's an ever-changing, unpredictable, messy situation.
Brendan
I find it so frustrating when I read some of the stuff , this has been very hard on everyone and businesses have suffered.This is an extraordinary headline in the Irish Times
Why are we so angry with the Government and Nphet?
Psychology can help us develop better responses to pandemic twists and turnswww.irishtimes.com
I am not angry with the government and nphet.
We have bailed out pubs, restaurants and other businesses and they are still complaining.
They might be angry, but I am not.
I understand that it's an ever-changing, unpredictable, messy situation.
Brendan
I suspect that most people are pragmatic about all this, and many are sanguine. Hopefully the UK's (second) attempt at herd immunity, this time with a lot of people vaccinated, will work out okay re Covid hospitalisations and deaths, and then we can then do likewise.Honestly I find it hard to understand why more people aren't angry.
Take the example of Purple's 70-year old man above. Were the restrictions to blame for his mental health problems or was the virus to blame? The virus is just a virus, the response to it is what counts. This has varied enormously in different countries. Arguably we got the worst of all worlds with one of the most prolonged lockdowns in the world and open borders. The restrictions which were intended to save lives ended up ruining alot of lives too in completely forseeable ways, including plenty of those in the most vulnerable category, including an elderly family member of mine who died as a result of physical and mental heath breakdown caused by the restrictions. The consequences of one-dimensional decisions taken by nphet and govt will be felt for a long time to come.Covid has ruined a lot of lives. We might get angry with Covid.
But blaming the government and NPHET for it is misplaced.
Personally I think what has been done is above good, B+, and people need to understand that all this is brand new for everyone and there was and still will be issues but I'm very grateful of what has been done .
Paul's B+ is about right.
It depends you define 'harsh'.There aren't too many who had loved ones in care homes who would be grateful for what was done, and that's where most of the deaths occurred.
You don't get a B+ when you're at the bottom of the class. An E grade would be closer to the mark. Weekly data, updated today, shows us to be one of the worst performers in the EU/EEA despite one of the harshest lockdowns, with it's disastrous collateral damage.
How dare you criticise the heroes (that's every nurse and doctor, including the ones in management and administrative roles and the ones who have spent their working life resisting change). They are all front line staff (front line is exactly the same as being in the trenches during the First World War), including the ones who have no interaction with patients or the public.subsequent lockdowns were due to a woefully inadequate hospital capacity depsite having one of the most expensive health systems in the world - this is where the spotlight needs to be shone. If we are really all in this together, the hidebound work practices need to change..
It depends you define 'harsh'.
We never even really have a lockdown by the standards of what happened in Italy and France and Spain at times where you were under house arrest and needed a permission form to venture out.
We have had restrictions for longer than other countries but our measures were less severe.
The missus is in that brigade now so I must be a little reticent round these here partsHow dare you criticise the heroes (that's every nurse and doctor, including the ones in management and administrative roles and the ones who have spent their working life resisting change). They are all front line staff (front line is exactly the same as being in the trenches during the First World War), including the ones who have no interaction with patients or the public.
Well my mother in law is in a care home and the staff have been tremendous.There aren't too many who had loved ones in care homes who would be grateful for what was done, and that's where most of the deaths occurred.
You don't get a B+ when you're at the bottom of the class. An E grade would be closer to the mark. Weekly data, updated today, shows us to be one of the worst performers in the EU/EEA despite one of the harshest lockdowns, with it's disastrous collateral damage.
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