Pandemic fatigue is said to be a genuine mindset that some people get after quite some time of an ongoing virus, especially given the span of covid’s timeframe around the world.
Tony Holohan has retaken the reigns from the Deputy Chief Medical Officer Dr Ronan Glynn and is now advising the government on what way the country should go.
The Chief Medical Officer Dr Tony Holohan was interviewed yet again on tonight’s Late Late Show.
He said that we could get Christmas if we all behave ourselves and abide by the guidelines:
“We are not going to go back to a Christmas like last year. We had a normal Christmas last year but there is clearly going to have to be a change as to how we live through Christmas this year. We, fortunately, didn’t know anything about Covid last Christmas.”
He added: “We don’t want to be in a situation where we have to ask people to restrict doing things they hold dear at Christmas but it will have to be a different one to last year.”
The Chief Medical Officer said that people were fed up of people like him coming on and giving them bad news all the time and said that “pandemic fatique” has kicked in but that we must stay locked down for six weeks.
Holohan was off work for most of the summer due to minding this sick wife. He’s been back to work since last Monday week and since then Ireland has gone into Level 5, thanks to NPHET.
Holohan said that he understands how people are sick of hearing from him but that we all have to band together for the next six weeks. If we do that, Holohan said that we may be able to have a proper Christmas.
He told host Ryan Tubridy that we need do what we did back in March and stay at home unless for essential work or essential shops.
Holohan said that he understood how people who have had to shut their shops again are not happy about the situation but effectively the numbers are far too many to not justify a Level 5.
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