The Pandemic is officially over!

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-65499929

After three years and billions of people's lives disrupted, WHO have finally drawn a line under this fiasco of a pandemic!

Now is the time to quietly bury all the news about the damage done to so many by so few.

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DLink

dolanbaker

Risteard81

not_sure_what_to_pick

You clearly didn't read what you posted. The pandemic isn't over, just the emergency status.

"The worst thing any country can do now is to use this news as a reason to let down its guard, to dismantle the systems it has built, or to send the message to its people that Covid-19 is nothing to worry about," he said."

JP Liz V1

I'm glad the global pandemic emergency is over but I'll probably still be cautious, hand washing and masking in certain settings etc.,

apache

I was up at my GP there the other day. I asked the receptionist did I need a mask? Someone in the waiting room without one. She said it would be appreciated if patients wore one. They have notices on the door saying no mask no entry yet they don't even provide masks there. They used to refuse entry and make you go to the chemist to buy one.

So anyway I had a mask with me so I did put it on. But I'm thinking it's wrong of her to say that. They are not a requirement. I was at a hospital appointment last week and didn't wear one with no problems. It's a bit rich.

AerLingus747

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120560090#Comment_120560090

terrible carry on, I'd have gone to the guards to report such carry on

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120559925#Comment_120559925

Clearly arse covering and still likes to feel in control of the uncontrollable , the pandemic IS over, it is and has been endemic for the past two years, in other words it is just another coronavirus common cold now.

rob316

So can we close the forum now?

not_sure_what_to_pick

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120560115#Comment_120560115

It is not a cold. The WHO says that someone dies every three minutes from covid while declaring the emergency response over today. Last month they said that one in ten infected with covid gets long covid. That doesn't sound like it's over to me.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120560136#Comment_120560136

Did you sign up to reply to this?

Tork

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120560123#Comment_120560123

You could but then, what would all the people addicted to the place do?

apache

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120560101#Comment_120560101

Stupid thing to say. I was just saying.

not_sure_what_to_pick

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120560157#Comment_120560157

I signed up a month ago to reply to this today?

igCorcaigh

What happens the app?

I think I will keep onto it, as it has my vax certs (and for memory sakes, ah!).

I do find it strange though, that I was never pinged, all trough the pandemic. Even after contracting COVID.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120560305#Comment_120560305

If it is anything like the NHS app, it will be removed automatically at some point in the future.

igCorcaigh

I bought one of these coins from Dublin Fire Brigade (as a fund raiser for them) as a gift to my brother for his birthday back in June 2020.

A nice piece of history, to hold on to, I think.

DLink

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120560203#Comment_120560203

You're a sleeper agent. Obviously 🤣

AerLingus747

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120560410#Comment_120560410

You can still get your covid pass on the NHS app.

DLink

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120560136#Comment_120560136

If the idiots who pulled the trigger on declaring the emergency in the first place have now declared it over, then that's good enough for me.

It's like the Irish begging for more restrictions, yet when they start to loosen things up, it's a case of "Whoa there Nelly, what are you doing? You'll kill us all!".

You can't decide to trust the experts when they're going one way but not the other. No need to keep dragging it out, the world has moved on, try to keep up 🙄

not_sure_what_to_pick

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120560533#Comment_120560533

The same idiots who said that people are dying every three minutes from covid and one in ten ends up with long covid.

DLink

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120560560#Comment_120560560

In a word, yes. It's over, deal with it.

not_sure_what_to_pick

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120560574#Comment_120560574

https://www.irishtimes.com/health/2023/05/05/covid-19-is-no-longer-a-global-health-emergency-says-who-in-major-step-towards-end-of-pandemic/

The WHO said that even though the emergency phase is over, the pandemic has not come to an end, noting recent spikes in cases in southeast Asia and the Middle East

DLink

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120560607#Comment_120560607

The "emergency phase" is what prompted the draconian restrictions on our personal freedoms and everyday lives, thankfully all that is in the past now.

If the official emergency is over, then covid is over, it can't be any simpler that that. covid is now just another bug that you'll pick up, the same as the flu or a cold.

not_sure_what_to_pick

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120560657#Comment_120560657

The pandemic isn't over, just the emergency response to it.

Your freedoms are fine but you still have to stay at home if you have cold, flu or covid.

Tomaldo

It ended for me when the HSE stopped announcing how many died from it in the last 24 hours on the 6 o'c. News. Am I right to say Maradona's death was the only thing that stopped it from being the first item on the RTE news during that period.

DLink

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120560751#Comment_120560751

"Still have to stay home" you say...... That brings back so many memories, all bad.

Show me the law that says that I need to stay home and then perhaps we can talk.

No one stayed home before, and no one is going to stay home now.... unless you have paid sick leave from work that is, no point in wasting the perfect opportunity to extend the weekend at someone else's expense.

not_sure_what_to_pick

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120560808#Comment_120560808

So you won't stay at home when sick because you just don't care about infecting others? Big clap to you.

DLink

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120560817#Comment_120560817

I'm not self isolating ever, ever, ever again, I feel dirty even saying "self isolating", and you're right, I don't care about passing anything on, be it the covid, the flu, or a cold... the same as before covid became a thing, and just the same as everyone else I've ever worked with....

No sick pay = into work we go

Employers are looking for certs to allow you to stay home again, and who's going to pay a doctor €50 or €60 for a day off that will only entitle you to something like €80 sick pay?

You got spoiled by the covid restrictions, no one cares any more, not the people and certainly not the employers.

Pauliedragon

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120560751#Comment_120560751

People won't or simply can't afford to stay at home with the flu or the cold or covid because they can't afford to in the current financial climate with every day costs going out of control. If the government or doctors want us to stay home for a week with the flu put their hand in their pocket and give people their full wages for the week through social. There were boasting a couple of weeks ago about being 16bn in the black over the next couple of years so they can afford it.

Micky 32

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120560560#Comment_120560560

There’s a huge question mark over that claim of one in ten. There is no way it’s one in ten. Twitter even put a marker on that claim. Yes one person dies every 3 mins but 319 die every 3 mins of other causes. Puts a bit of perspective on it. It’s been over a while now. Life has returned to normal. I have been living 2019 for at least a year now. Nobody cares in the real world. It’s over.

Swaine

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120560777#Comment_120560777

People weren't dying from it though. They were dying with it.

This fact seems to have got overlooked throughout this farce.

odyssey06

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120562554#Comment_120562554

Thats not a fact. Thats medical misinformation.

You are also ignoring the numbers of people it sent to ICU and hospital from covid.

https://www.thejournal.ie/debunk-183-covid-deaths-ireland-5850250-Aug2022/