No Time to Die... from COVID-19

[Dartz]

They're threating to extend the lockdown if people start getting lax with it. 

I fully expect there will be those sorts of noises here; I'm frankly amazed that they didn't outright close the state parks when it was clear a lot of people were taking advantage to have impromptu vacations and crowding the parks, including from out of state. Although in a couple of cases they did plow snow after the most recent mountain snowstorms into a couple of parking lot entrances in real problem spots, effectively closing those parks, because there were so many people going to them that people were parking on the roads nearby, creating a new safety hazard under normal circumstances, to say nothing of the circumstances of trying to keep the local health systems under capacity.

But the tone they struck was like a fucking parent scalding a child and it just rubbed me up completely the wrong way.

To be fair, it's not easy to write such announcements without the exasperation coming through about, "do you really want us to have to shut this all down again because you're not realizing how serious it actually is?" Given that, to my knowledge, there's still been enough issues getting PPE and equipment that there is still a pretty high risk that another peak in infections will overwhelm local health systems, it's even more understandable that tone control is starting to go out the window dealing with the selfish part of the population.

Itis very tone deaf from them. People's tolerance for misery is wearing thing - there's not just physical health from the Covid to think of, there's mental health and emotional wellbeing and that has been wearing thin for a lot of folks. Even an understanding that it is uncomfortable for many would be nice.

Traffic is still at about a fifth of normal levels - and there were measureably more people at shops this weekend buying foodstuffs, and stuff. Irish people are prone to the 'Ah sure it'll be grand' approach to things.