Now that Covid is over why doesn't someone officially call it ?

fun loving criminal

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119054771#Comment_119054771

Weaponised smallpox? And in Russia of all places. I wouldn't put it past them.

therapist3

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058244953/now-that-covid-is-over-why-doesnt-someone-officially-call-it

Because it's not over, Covid would have to be eradicated for it to be over.

There is still another winter to go through with the related deaths and hospital admissions before we can form any true opinion of how many deaths we are willing to accept

Micky 32

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El_Duderino 09

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119061026#Comment_119061026

There's a great chance the winter will be fine and we'll get a normal Christmasfor the forst time in 3 years. But that's the test.

We don't need it to be eradicates though. It just needs to not be a big problem. We have seasonal flu which kills people but it doesn't typically overwhelm the health system, so it's just taken as an unfortunate part of life.

GardenLady

I'm in the US, and it's certainly not over here. The Mister and I, his sister and our brother-in-law, and my stepdaughter went to NYC to see the Broadway revival of The Music Man. Stepdaughter flew, the rest of us took the train. The Mister & I, sister & BIL, all got it, which leads me to think we got it on the train. Being vaxxed and boosted, it was much like a bad case of the flu, but it was of serious concern because The Mister is a cardiac patient. Fortunately, it's all over for us. But two weeks later, my parents (ages 92 and 98) got it in their assisted living, where they have 15 residents and 4 staff who have tested positive in the last two weeks. So, not over here, and with international travel, that means not over anywhere.

Amadan Dubh

I think it's not really clear what people mean when they say "it's over". A general definition as to what that means would help the discussion.

For me, no restrictions whatsoever that are legally mandated and only guidance that people should follow if they want, is sufficient for it to be "over". I'm sure for others some sort of total eradication is what it being "over" means. Therefore, for me, it is in fact over and the benefit of declaring it over is that it disappears from your day to day life as a concern or a topic of conversation which is positive given how utterly toxic and negative it is to be bombarded with COVID news, restrictions, those yellow signs etc.

Micky 32

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119093403#Comment_119093403

Unlucky. Not everyone gets it. I have been over and back to the states a few times since last November( was over there last week). Packed planes, busy JFK, i was in busy restaurants and i never caught it.

El_Duderino 09

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119093926#Comment_119093926

I'd agree with the general definition of over meaning no mandatory restrictions. But I'd also say we need to known if we can get through winter without restrictions or not. If we can, then it's over. If not, then it's only over for now. But only time will tell.

I'm living as if it's over for now so I'm pretty happy with how things are now. No point pretending restrictions can't come back this winter. But if we get through this winter, then it's almost certainly over.

is_that_so

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119035109#Comment_119035109

Pandemics don't operate on the basis of advantages and disadvantages. Globally it is not yet over but very many countries have now moved on past the widespread health issues associated with COVID. Current new cases are at about 375K worldwide, a tenth of what they were in January. The WHO will do the announcing when the time comes and seeing as it took them months to decide there was one, you could be waiting a good bit for a declared end to it. From our perspective the public emergency is over, just over four months now, and it has been downgraded to yet another public health issue to be monitored by the HPSC and HSE.

I will ask why you seem to maintain such an unusual level of interest in it as it really seems to be a fairly pointless intellectual conceit.

[Deleted User]

I very much doubt we'll see any restrictions ever again. I think there is a bit of an unspoken agreement that we need to cop on now with huge levels of inflation and an economy that will almost certainly enter into recession this year. Interest rates will go up which means people will start losing homes, jobs and all those things that go with recession. And god knows how bad the cost of living will become.

As a country, we won't be able to borrow more money to pay for business closures and give people 350 a week.

When the cost of living goes through the roof and the country is officially in recession, good luck telling people you are going to take away their personal freedoms again.

Tonesjones

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119096056#Comment_119096056

And a massive chunk of those figures are just from one country. North Korea.

The becoming dominant strains in many countries (ba.5 and ba.6) are so mild that many cases are asymptomatic .

Unknown Soldier

The previous Emergency Response to the Pandemic in Ireland is more or less over, that much is obvious.

No one really knows how this will all pan out in the medium to long term, we can only use past cases to try and predict the future, but there are no guarantees!

El_Duderino 09

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119096056#Comment_119096056

I'm interested in it because its the thread topic. I'm not sure I'm unusually interested in it at all.

I'm just living life as normal. Im visiting friends this weekend, staying in their house, out and about, going for pints, living life. I don't see why the OP and Co. want 'someone' to declare it over. I just don't see what advantage it brings to arbitrarily declare it over.

I'd just recommend living life as usual unless it goes haywire this winter. If it doesn't, then we'll just continue to life life as normal and it will be undramatic.

Goldengirl

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119096056#Comment_119096056

While I agree with your post not the last line as a bit of an own goal ?

We are all here posting , although less often , so we are all still interested in some way , including yourself , in this " fairly pointless intellectual conceit " !

Red Silurian

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119054982#Comment_119054982

Can't see it, the lack of border protection from a virus and readily available vaccines would make it too dangerous for Russia to consider and no real benefit to their ongoing war effort. Also NATO would likely consider it to be an attack