Relaxation of Restrictions, Part XII *Read OP For Mod Warnings*

PTH2009

https://m.independent.ie/news/concert-and-plays-cancelled-due-to-covid-amid-sharp-rise-in-cases-41764222.html?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=seeding

Still at this

Juwwi

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119218376#Comment_119218376

Still at what ?

Reading the article Im guessing it's due to performers or staff being out sick with covid ,, it doesn't mention anything about public health advice or anything like that .

Have people nothing else to do than post inaccurate stuff here .

stephenjmcd

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119218376#Comment_119218376

What do you want them to do if the performers have covid ?

Years later and your "still at this"

DLink

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119218932#Comment_119218932

Just get on with it perhaps? Unless they're hacking up a lung I don't see why they can't just get on with the show.

Tork

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119218388#Comment_119218388

Looks like some people just can't kick their addiction to negativity and Covid. Seriously, get off the internet and go live your life like everyone else around you is. In case you hadn't noticed, the vast majority of the population is doing just that. If you walk into a shop you won't see many people wearing masks now. You can go to gigs, take a holiday, go to the pub, hang around with your friends and that's what you should be doing. Not acting like a dog on Halloween night every time something like this article happens. For now, things like this will happen from to time and it isn't going to make the sky fall in. Much as you'd love it to.

Penfailed

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119220214#Comment_119220214

Was this directed at the person you quoted, or the person who's quote the person you quoted, quoted? 😁

hamburgham

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119218932#Comment_119218932

Do they not have understudies?

PTH2009

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119222354#Comment_119222354

It must be highly frustrating that because of one case a whole show can be cancelled/postponed

Is part of it too 'show face' to the media ? No doubt shows still went on years ago with members of the production having the flu etc. Saw Pearl Jam a few years back and Eddie admitted 'he had the flu' imagine doing that nowadays he'd be crucified all over social media

AlekSmart

Wit a target date of September (MY prediction) for a reintroduction of "measures" to combat the virus etc,it's unlikely Eddie will get the chance to infect us at all this year? They appear to have begun the 2023 production a wee bit early,possibly due to the CSO's somewhat off-message figures for "Deaths due to Covid" during the past two years.The thrust now appears to be keep the focus away from the significant gulf between the CSO's sub 200 and the "Official" 7000 plus consistently put forward by the DoH,HSE and MSM. Equally,the somewhat odd behaviour of the U.S.A's Centres for Disease Control in their quest to get every 5- 12 years old vaccinatied,based upon a (Pfizer) study of 140 chizzlers from that age group,in the face of increasingly strident calls to pause and await further comprehensive studies before injecting 24,000,000 children with Pfizers best.The Airport queues,somewhat oddly worked against the grain too,in they proved Michael O Leary correct,People WANT to travel,and the majority are not transfixed by Covid fear,so further efforts are required.😉

Red Silurian

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119218376#Comment_119218376

From reading that article it looks like they contracted COVID-19... And in fairness it's not as simple as having to isolate, it's probably also about them being performers, acting requires a lot of speaking and blowing into a tuba takes a lot of lung capacity... I'm sure these things were getting cancelled long before covid when performers were getting colds and flu's

More worrying is the INMO calling for the return of masks again

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/health/nursing-union-chief-says-return-of-mask-mandate-needed-to-protect-hospitals-from-covid-41768195.html

namloc1980

The media and unions banging the drum for the return of mandatory masks. They'd love it.

celt262

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119225653#Comment_119225653

Them of all people should know the effectiveness of masks or if they don't be told.

dorothylives

I was appalled to see the INTO in the papers again yesterday calling for the reintroduction of masks indoors. They were at that craic up until March when we had tens of thousands of people from a country that has a very low uptake on any vaccinations arriving here, suddenly that stopped. Now there's increased numbers with Covid and they want to take extreme measures again. At the beginning of the year there were people again calling for an apartheid system where anyone who hadn't a booster wouldn't be allowed to access the hospitality industry.

It's time to move on. I'd Covid that I got while in hospital, it was very mild. My elderly Mother had the booster and was a lot worse than me, it took her a week to recover from it and she's still got lingering problems. The HSE has always been fucked, they're overwhelmed at the slightest increase in any seasonal virus. It's absurd that they're allowed to get away with this nonsense.

Red Silurian

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119226019#Comment_119226019

Ciara Keely on NT Breakfast not too happy about it, happy to take the drumstick and beat the unions back with it

Vital Transformation

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119218332#Comment_119218332

I actually agree with Red Silurian to some extent, when a phone appointment is sufficient enough for the type of illness they are handy logistically, saves a chunk of time on travel etc. Also have an appointment with a consultant soon who is located an hour and a half away from me. Very glad I don't have to travel to that appointment and back, those appointments used to be a massive time sink for me.

I do think it's excessive at this stage to be handing out the likes of bottles for samples etc at the door of the GP office. Not even being allowed in to the building to receive that kind of item, prescriptions, and pay for appointments is a bit beyond the pale.

Red Silurian

Varadkar being quoted on RTE news website as saying he's watching the trend in Portugal. Portugal had a peak of about 38,000 daily infections a month ago and are now looking at about 12,000 daily infections, we have about half the population of Portugal so could we take that to mean our numbers should peak around the 19k mark?

For comparison, Portugal peaked at 75,000 cases in January, we peaked at about 30,000

Micky 32

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119230066#Comment_119230066

Each wave seems to have less impact. Hard to know what we’ll peak at but I would bet my right bollock we won’t reach 1600 in hospital like we did in the BA.2 wave.

However with all this talk of “ very concerning “ at 600 in hospitals I wonder if they have decided never to let it reach 1600 again. I have a feeling they have lowered the threshold this time.

Red Silurian

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119230247#Comment_119230247

Hospitalisations have been climbing steadily for the last 14 days. Going by Portugal's figures where the wave peaked after a month they'll climb for the next 2 weeks, probably doubling again to 1200 in that time and then fall again.

Which effectively means only 2 more weeks of the renewed calls for restrictions from unions and "concern" from the HSE/health minister

Micky 32

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119230066#Comment_119230066

Maybe a possible slowdown already. Hospitalizations only increased by 2 since yesterday.

Red Silurian

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119233634#Comment_119233634

Possibly... It's hard to tell until a few days after the peak... My prediction is worst case scenario

Micky 32

A drop from 629 to 436 in hospitals this morning? Hardly an error? Nearly a drop of 200!

lee_baby_simms

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119237949#Comment_119237949

Incredible if accurate. Hard to believe it’s not a mistake.

_Kaiser_

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119237970#Comment_119237970

It's very possible

GP's for a variety of reasons are just referring patients to A&E/hospitals for pretty much everything now. Patient lands and is triaged and whoops happens to have covid as well.

Case numbers and scaremongering goes up as automatic protocols are engaged. But then once they've been treated for whatever they were actually referred for, they're sent home.

A dose of the sniffles is not a concern.

Case in point - after 2.5 years of no illnesses at all, I finally woke to a bit of a cough, stuffy nose and headache on Monday. I didn't run off to the doctor or emergency room or down to the shops for test kits (I've only ever had one covid test and that was as part of admission for a cataract operation up north last year). I just took 2 panadol, had a shower, and got some benelyn day and night and exputex in the chemist.

3 days later I'm pretty much 100% again and have been working remotely (as I usually do) throughout dealing with a major incident all week.

No need for tests or adding to case numbers and "worrying" statistics in the media. Just get on with it... Like we always did before we gave it a scary name!

Red Silurian

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119237949#Comment_119237949

If it's an error it will be reflected in a spike tomorrow so watch that. With that being said there was also a reduction in positive PCR test results by about 300, I presume the 436 positives in hospital were PCR tested 2-3 days ago

stephenjmcd

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119237949#Comment_119237949

It's an error due to a technical issue not all hospitals reported

Micky 32

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119239517#Comment_119239517

Yep now has been corrected. 685 in hospitals.

_Kaiser_

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119239682#Comment_119239682

But as usual I think the important question is if they're there BECAUSE of Covid, or WITH Covid?

Red Silurian

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119239817#Comment_119239817

Makes very little difference in a hospital setting. Regardless of whether they are there "with" or "because of" they still have to be separated from other patients, 2m distancing between beds in the ward and all the other requirements.

The only important question is what way the ICU figures go - which are stable, maybe even falling

lee_baby_simms

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119239682#Comment_119239682

“Phew” - Claire Byrne.

Micky 32

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119240115#Comment_119240115

Don’t worry she’ll be ok. A huge f** increase of 56 in one day