I've kept an eye on the pandemic response in Ireland. There seems to be a little brother effect at work (think Austria vs Germany; Canada vs USA; New Zealand vs Australia), i.e. a type of over compensation to more emphatically demonstrate their taking the issue seriously and their worthiness next to the big leagues players.
Although, most restrictions have now recently been lifted, the Irish have been very compliant (and proud of the fact!) in their masking, lockdowns, and vaccinating.
I hope you enjoy the stay and you are received more warmly than the official Covidiocy would indicate.
It seems like this would be an issue for cargo shipments (which can arrive via air, even if that is expensive), not passenger flights... The public is going to get so used to seeing signs for the next plague that they start to ignore them. Maybe...hopefully.
Thought I might recommend a book called "Grisjakten" (The Pig Hunt) by swedish author P.C. Jersild. Published 1968. I'm unsure if there are translations, though.
The basic premise is that the swedish governement decides in 1968 to hold a drill on Gotland, simulating an epidemic among the islands swine population, to learn how to develop and implement necessary procedures for large scale catch and inter/euthanise large groups of swin rapidly, cleanly and discreetly.
The protagonist is the civil servant tasked with organising and setting up the initial framework for all involved parties.
Any other historical or modern associations are left to the reader.
Might as well put a sign saying "Caution! You may be the unwitting carrirer of bacterial, viral or parasitical infection vectors! Be aware!".
Or perhaps just "Caution! Beware!" gets the point across better.
Here, the governement authorities are trying to scare people raising chickens or other fowl that they are at risk from bird flu. The party line is approx." "any bird might carry the virus and infect your chickens". This of course is due to the agency in question having had its truly soviet plan for creating a compulsory registry for all owners of chickens, then making annual official check ups (and fees, lovely lovely fees) mandatory, then making annual vet checks a legal obligation, and then quite possibly enforcing a blanket fee and taxation to finance the whole oversight apparatus. Venezuela of Europe, this is going to become.
Because in a nation where there are at least 8 different licenses for chainsaws - for private persons! - and you must have passed a certified course for floor buffing machines, there's just nothing that's too far.
"Obtain pig herd number" - well, just replace pigs with humans, and here you go. Covid passport/QR code, your herd number, and all that remains is chasing a few of the herd that stubbornly refuse to be numbered. What we failed to finish with Covid, we will attempt to finish with food shortages - pigs (sorry, humans) all need to eat after all.
The Irish have gone so soft in the head. I was so surprised for a country helped established USA. I must pay respect to that lovely and brave grandma who went to jail eather than wearing a mask. She has dubline the courage of any other Irishman!
I've kept an eye on the pandemic response in Ireland. There seems to be a little brother effect at work (think Austria vs Germany; Canada vs USA; New Zealand vs Australia), i.e. a type of over compensation to more emphatically demonstrate their taking the issue seriously and their worthiness next to the big leagues players.
Although, most restrictions have now recently been lifted, the Irish have been very compliant (and proud of the fact!) in their masking, lockdowns, and vaccinating.
I hope you enjoy the stay and you are received more warmly than the official Covidiocy would indicate.
It seems like this would be an issue for cargo shipments (which can arrive via air, even if that is expensive), not passenger flights... The public is going to get so used to seeing signs for the next plague that they start to ignore them. Maybe...hopefully.
Thought I might recommend a book called "Grisjakten" (The Pig Hunt) by swedish author P.C. Jersild. Published 1968. I'm unsure if there are translations, though.
The basic premise is that the swedish governement decides in 1968 to hold a drill on Gotland, simulating an epidemic among the islands swine population, to learn how to develop and implement necessary procedures for large scale catch and inter/euthanise large groups of swin rapidly, cleanly and discreetly.
The protagonist is the civil servant tasked with organising and setting up the initial framework for all involved parties.
Any other historical or modern associations are left to the reader.
Might as well put a sign saying "Caution! You may be the unwitting carrirer of bacterial, viral or parasitical infection vectors! Be aware!".
Or perhaps just "Caution! Beware!" gets the point across better.
Here, the governement authorities are trying to scare people raising chickens or other fowl that they are at risk from bird flu. The party line is approx." "any bird might carry the virus and infect your chickens". This of course is due to the agency in question having had its truly soviet plan for creating a compulsory registry for all owners of chickens, then making annual official check ups (and fees, lovely lovely fees) mandatory, then making annual vet checks a legal obligation, and then quite possibly enforcing a blanket fee and taxation to finance the whole oversight apparatus. Venezuela of Europe, this is going to become.
Because in a nation where there are at least 8 different licenses for chainsaws - for private persons! - and you must have passed a certified course for floor buffing machines, there's just nothing that's too far.
"Obtain pig herd number" - well, just replace pigs with humans, and here you go. Covid passport/QR code, your herd number, and all that remains is chasing a few of the herd that stubbornly refuse to be numbered. What we failed to finish with Covid, we will attempt to finish with food shortages - pigs (sorry, humans) all need to eat after all.
The Irish have gone so soft in the head. I was so surprised for a country helped established USA. I must pay respect to that lovely and brave grandma who went to jail eather than wearing a mask. She has dubline the courage of any other Irishman!