Yesterday.
Manhattan, New York, New York, USA.
‘Masks for seniors, masks for kids,
‘It’s not about you. also not like the flu
‘Just because we’re tired, doesn’t mean it’s over
Mandate masks, that’s our ask.’
Pro-mask- protestors demonstrate the lifting of New York’s covid mask mandate with a song in the air of nursery rhyme Frère Jacques.
Johnnynyc (out of picture).
YIKES!
KN writes:
Not sure if you guys have seen this, from the United Nations on NBC (broadcast last month). Go to @7.44.
It’s probably an optical illusion, but if not, I’d like to remind our new insect overlords that as a trusted Broadsheet reader, I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground sugar caves.
Fight!
It’s your choice.
Yesterday evening.
Pearse Street, Dublin 2
Taoiseach Micheál Martin and Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science Simon Harris greeted by Professor Linda Doyle, Provost of Trinity College Dublin, as they arrive in the Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute to announce the successful cross-border partnership projects awarded funding under the North South Research Programme.
Meanwhile…
'This is ridiculous': @GovRonDeSantis scolds students for wearing face masks during his @USouthFlorida visit https://t.co/v9XLjueCYi pic.twitter.com/TFeC6t6wL9
— WFLA NEWS (@WFLA) March 2, 2022
Here’s why you should keep wearing a mask on planes—even when you no longer have to https://t.co/TSMiLXtGLT
— TIME (@TIME) March 2, 2022
No.
Stop trying to make masks a thing again.
Why You Should Keep Wearing a Mask on Planes—Even When You No Longer Have To (Time)
Junior Infants teacher Jennifer Ní Chathaláin, of Gaelscoil Uí Drisceoil, Glanmire, county Cork
With the easing of public health measures in schools from today, pupils and teachers at Gaelscoil Uí Drisceoil in Co Cork welcomed ‘a sense of normality’ https://t.co/moiUiD6LCU
— RTÉ News (@rtenews) February 28, 2022
This afternoon.
Via RTE news:
Junior infants teacher Jennifer Ní Chathaláin can now use facial expressions as well as her voice to teach her class of five and six-year-olds as, for the first time in a long, long time, she no longer has to wear a face mask in class.
“It’s the sense of normality that we have missed,” she told RTÉ News.
“I’m looking forward to being able to sit down and do circle time, with the kids sitting next to them on the carpet and reading a book to them, where they can sit wherever they want. It’s the structure and rigidity of the restrictions that have really been felt.
“Now it feels like it’s just back to normal, the way it should be in a junior infants class, where kids can mix and socialise and they can develop new friendships and they can expand their social networks.
“It’s a really positive day today.”
Five-year old Seb MacCarthaigh agrees.
“I am really happy because I can hear Múinteor Jennifer’s voice and I can see her face,” he said.
😄.
Cork school ‘delighted’ to ‘see children smiling’ (Paschal Sheehy, RTE)
Pic via RTE news
This morning.
Jervis Street Luas, Dublin 1.
From today, masks/facerags/covid thongs/muzzles/mouth diapers are no longer required on public transport.
The requirement for children aged nine to 12 to wear masks in the classroom is also dropped from today, along with the requirement for secondary students to wear masks.
However…via Irish Times:
Teachers and parents support the wearing of masks by older primary schoolchildren, while the children themselves are evenly split on the experience, research commissioned by the National Public Health Emergency Team shows.
Three primary schools – one urban, one suburban and one rural – were surveyed for the research. Some 38 per cent of nine to 12-year-olds said they were happy to continue wearing masks, while another 7 per cent were in favour but for reasons such as protecting others. Almost 46 per cent said they wanted to stop wearing masks.
Let it go.
Game time! Comment which one you think is the worst take! This should be fun pic.twitter.com/slE0d7TFcL
— Libs of Tik Tok (@libsoftiktok) February 24, 2022
Ah here.
Meanwhile…
It’s happened … pic.twitter.com/e1C2amNKrz
— CherryB🍒 (@cherylboruszko) February 25, 2022
Take that, Vlad.
Hang on.
Where’s Penn?
Sean Penn is on the ground in Ukraine filming a documentary about Russia’s invasion, Vice Studios confirmed. The filmmaker appeared at a press briefing Thursday in Kyiv listening to government officials speak about the crisis. https://t.co/k88WDgbtGw pic.twitter.com/mSJas55W2v
— Variety (@Variety) February 24, 2022
Phew.
‘Film Actors Guild’ assemble.
Well said Paul Murphy. #TonightVMTV pic.twitter.com/0bI9KyUXnk
— Daithi K. (@tvcritics) February 22, 2022
Last night
Zero Covid enthusiast Paul Murphy declares the pandemic is not over.
Meanwhile….
Is this Paul Murphy?
— Independent.ie (@philthrill69) February 23, 2022
Ah here.
Meanwhile…
— The Aureus Press (@Trad_West_Art) February 23, 2022
Fight!
Minister for Transport Eamon Ryan has said that people still need to be careful when it comes to wearing face masks. He said the advice is for people to keep wearing them on public transport, however it won’t be mandatory | https://t.co/DW877frDoh pic.twitter.com/9MEDtd1pqE
— RTÉ News (@rtenews) February 22, 2022
This morning.
Dublin Castle, Dublin 2.
Green Party Leader and Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications and Minister for Transport Eamon Ryan arrives for a cabinet meeting on lifting all covid restrictions.
Earlier: “A Sense Of Nervousness”
The Minister for Transport Minister Eamon Ryan said he hopes the ending of mandatory mask wearing in schools, retail and public transport can be done “straight away”.https://t.co/jUtt0LQZc7
— RTÉ News (@rtenews) February 17, 2022
This afternoon.
Earlier….
Taoiseach Micheál Martin
This morning.
Via RTE news:
The Taoiseach has told a meeting of the Fianna Fáil parliamentary party that the National Public Health Emergency Team may soon draw a distinction between mandatory mask wearing and public health advice.
Micheál Martin was speaking ahead of a NPHET meeting today, where the requirement to wear masks in certain settings will be examined.
There is a clear sense politically that the laws underpinning the wearing of masks will soon lapse.
They could be replaced by health advice about the benefits of continuing to wear masks in retail settings and possibly on public transport.
the lifting of the requirement to wear masks in schools is seen as quite likely by politicians.
Meanwhile…
The Taoiseach told his party TDs, Senators and MEPs last night that the focus must now be kept on vaccination and there could be an annual vaccine.
Um.
Rules over mask wearing expected to change (RTE)
Meanwhile…
Gulp.
