News of a variant corona virus in Ireland, Spain, the u.k. and perhaps elsewhere, true or not might be an argument against the development of immunity as in the case of all viruses. Global protests about covid restrictions have sometimes resulted in trouble between protestors and the police. In Ireland, this has resulted in threats to would be organisers.
Nineteen countries are reportedly more severely affected than Ireland in a list of covid affected countries. Arguments that lockdowns assist hospitals to cope with the pandemic fail to align with statistics which reveal very few covid cases in Irish hospitals. Maybe different elsewhere. Ireland’s few clinical cases may be linked to regular occurrences of water and other contamination over the years which would have built up an immunity. No known cause but thought to be linked to biological subterfuge. If so, the seen to be extreme government strategy which restricts business, travel and movement but exempts overseas military personnel is the worst possible move.