The European Commission has said the Irish government should use “less restrictive” quarantine measures for citizens arriving from five EU member states and that there should be clear and operational exemptions for essential travel to Ireland.... [Thread]

He says with not one lick of evidence to back up.

What claims require specific evidence? A mandatory Hotel Quarantine requiring around 2k to enter the country and stay in sequester clearly advantages the rich who have that sort of money to spend and the luxury to take more than 2 weeks off work, That's basically objectively true.

As far as our measures go, everybody measuring and evaluating the strenuous and strictness of lockdown measures has Ireland at or near the top: https://www.irishpost.com/news/irelands-coronavirus-lockdown-ranked-toughest-in-europe-and-4th-toughest-in-the-world-204462

We're at the top for Europe, so please - tell me what I've gotten wrong here? Is it the description of "authoritarian" - because I believe not being able to travel outside your country, being fined for hanging out with people in other houses, being forced out of work - all of those are authoritarian measures.

So be specific now, what have I gotten wrong?

Just his own impotent anger.

Perhaps, you spend all your time on the /r/politics subreddit which is an American subreddit, presumably you have no say their either, no real big impact - is that your impotent anger coming out? Because you have no impact, nor capacity to change anything over there and yet are still sharing your opinion. So you can mock me all you like, but you engage in that behaviour also and are clearly one of the Irish who are more concerned with talking about American problems than addressing Irish ones. Fine.

I guess I am powerless to change anything here, the wealthier, privileged among us have stood on the necks of those impacted by lockdown asking us to tacitly accept the destruction of our lockdowns. We can't protest because of the nature of the virus, without being vilified - but I'm not being forced to accept it with a smile on my face. Is it not enough to just have destroyed our lives? I suppose that's the big tragedy of this, the people most effected by lockdown we're the ones given the smallest platform and say throughout this, unelected officials decided who in society were the worthy sacrifices.

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