Covid 19 Part XXIII-33,444 in ROI(1,792 deaths) 9,541 in NI(577 deaths)(22/09)Read OP

I’ll be getting the vaccine as soon as I can. When faced with serious illness or death, whatever the vaccine might do is better than those options.

WoollyRedHat wrote: »

They won't be in a position to get in early 2021 unless they're frontline workers, so don't worry.

That will be interesting trying to get all the nurses to take the vaccine judging by their previous aversion to the annual flu jabs.

Away With The Fairies wrote: »

This is it exactly. We fcuked up back then and are fcuking up now as well. So I am worried that we might see what happened in Italy while living with covid and the flu.

The thing about Italy was it happened in a region of Italy not the whole country, a region which had one of the oldest populations in Europe, with no warning. It won't happen here.

drunkmonkey wrote: »

Right you've just said there's plenty of evidence, What evidence...show me the evidence used to justify the current lockdown in Dublin. What's the expected outcome based on the data.
There is no evidence.

Expected outcome, unless Dublin get their sh:t together will be level 4 lockdown.......

Hego Damask wrote: »

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-54227057

Fair play to them, people won't tolerate a 2nd lockdown ... especially now with the evidence that they don't work.
We need to look to Sweden for inspiration ..

What evidence is there that they don't work?
Look to Sweden? You do realize, despite the fact Sweden is behind most of Europe as they had a flatter curve, they still have been taking precautions.
Just because the government there was unable to legally force a lockdown, the people did actually follow government guidelines.

So your solution is to follow Sweden by following the very same guidelines which the government here have been asking us to do all along?
The very fact people are not adhering to the guidelines is the very reason for the majority of new cases we're seeing.

screamer wrote: »

Expected outcome, unless Dublin get their sh:t together will be level 4 lockdown.......

There kind of in trouble, Government want more testing, more testing equals more cases. More cases Dublin is going into deep freeze.
Can't see how Dubs can get out of this one in a hurry.

Thierry12 wrote: »

Tell that to Tubridy

Tubridy's an idiot.

Jim_Hodge wrote: »

And it only took 5865 deaths to get them there. They're also about five weeks behind the rest of Europe in reaching a first trough, so cases may well hit a surge yet.

As you well know the best available way to look at deaths is per 100K population,and on that basis Sweden is doing a lot better than many developed countries.I have read post after post here over the last few months condemning Sweden with over the top language,one poster a few days ago calling the authorities murderers.Who knows how it will pan out for Sweden in the coming months, but it remains a strong possibility that their approach may end up as good if not better than most other countries.

screamer wrote: »

The Swedes are all trusting in their public health/ government decisions. They follow what they’re told to do and that’s it. I was watching a documentary on it before and it was amazing that they put their faith in the decision makers as they do. However, it seems to have worked unlike in Ireland where we have a cohort who just do whatever the hell they like. We can’t compare ourselves to Sweden, our cultures are vastly different.

The poster saying we should follow Sweden is just ironic based on the fact that the trouble we're facing now is mainly down to people not following the guidelines etc... So it's impossible to follow Sweden for that reason.

Wolf359f wrote: »

Every year more and more HCW's get the flu jab. It used to be a very low take up, but their aiming for 75% uptake this year.

For years now the nurses have been mostly against the flu jab. Only very recently have the numbers increased to a significant total. If the Covid vaccine comes out, it will be a new vaccine and the nurses will be expected to take it first. Let’s get real, there will be lots of objections.

Del Griffith wrote: »

It feels like we've been "at a cross roads" for ages now. We're still at a crossroads.

It’s like 2009 all over again, except we were being told repeatedly by the finance minister that we’ve turned a corner.

niallo27 wrote: »

So what's the plan, people can't follow restrictions and have house parties. Let's shut down restaurants and put 50k out of work. No other country has followed this approach in Europe but the crowd we have in charge decide they know better.

I don't know what the plan is. But suggesting a plan to follow Sweden knowing full well that the reason we're getting new cases is because we're not following guidelines, so the new plan will be to..... follow guidelines? Yeah cause it will work second time around.