Tánaiste Leo Varadkar has admitted that Covid “will be with us forever,” while in the same breath warning that future lockdowns are not out of the question.
It’s actually beyond a pisstake at this stage.
Speaking to reporters yesterday, Varadkar said: “I think it’s increasingly clear that Covid is going to be with us forever. It’s going to become an endemic virus, perhaps a virus that is seasonal in nature.”
Perhaps the most remarkable thing about this statement is the fact that Leo thought it was newsworthy. NPHET finally admitted this in July of this year, months ago, and even by that point it was ancient news.
The chair of NPHET, Dr. Cillian De Gascun, has finally admitted that covid is endemic and will not be eliminated. So what exactly are we continuing with the emergency measures for, asks @Ben_Scallan?#gripthttps://t.co/EHzZO8ebgq
— gript (@griptmedia) July 29, 2021
The World Health Organisation was saying this since May of 2020. The fact that Varadkar and NPHET think this is some newly-discovered mindblowing piece of information actually makes you wonder if they even have internet access or read the paper.
#COVIDー19: “It is important to put this on the table: this virus may become just another endemic virus in our communities, and this virus may never go away," says @WHO https://t.co/crBXI2MZxF
— UNDRR (@UNDRR) May 14, 2020
Regardless, the Tánaiste continues: “There’s always the possibility that restrictions may need to be introduced in the country as a whole, but what we are aiming to do is to get through this winter without having to do that.
“Everyone in government is going to be a little bit worried about what we face into for the next couple of weeks.”
Citing the possibility for new variants to emerge, he added: “We know from the experience in other countries that Covid cases are rising in Germany and Belgium and Netherlands, linked to the fact that people are mixing more, linked to the fact that we are heading into winter and people are heading indoors more.”
Mind you, this is in a country (Ireland) that is more than 90% vaccinated. We have the highest jab rate in Europe. And still, lockdowns aren’t off the table according to our government.
The idea that we can lockdown the country every time we have a new variant of Covid is simply absurd. New variants are an absolute inevitability – the flu mutates constantly on an annual basis, as will Covid.
But most worrying is conclusion from the authors on possibility of vaccine resistance.
“the emergence of a partially or fully vaccine-resistant strain and its eventual establishment appears inevitable.”
UK Adv Group (SAGE) concluded basically the same – https://t.co/4rkz5sUYf7
— Edward Kelley (@etkelley419) August 4, 2021
What possible sense does it make to say “Yes, this virus is going to be with us until the end of time, and also, we’re preparing to shut down the entire country in totalitarian fashion if cases get bad”?
And more importantly, why did no journalist present ask this question?
We’re living under a regime of the most absurd double-think imaginable – people who can simultaneously accept that an outcome is inevitable, and yet also believe that we should destroy the entire country to try and prevent it. It’s the definition of insanity.
The Irish people have complied, and complied, and complied with the government’s preposterous measures from the start, and apparently we’re just as close to a winter lockdown as we ever were. If everything the general public has done up until this point isn’t enough, then nothing ever will be.