Living with Covid 2021,2022, 2023 ...

Thats me wrote: »

Hi All,
Let me introduce myself.
As everybody else, i was looking at figures for last 9 months.
I do everything possible to protect my environment from the infection, and was sure everybody doing the same.
In particular measures i do take:
1. Everything coming to the house from outside has two ways:
1.1. Food which requires cold storage is bought in plastic wrapping. Cartoons outside removed and immediately wasted ito bin outside, plastic boxes washed with a bleach-containing mix, kept for few minutes (actually untill all othe items washed same way), next all of this washed with tap water and placed into fridge.
1.2. Food and other item not rerquiring fridging - they are going to the shed for at least 3 (three) days, where these radiated by UV-C lamps producing 03 (ozone) overnight expecting killing organic shells of The Virus and other infections. 3 days period is chosen because it was reported in March as max. time while virus can survive on any surfaces. If you have newer data please share.
1.3. Any incoming physical correspondence goes p.1.2. way or, if it was obviously delayed more than 3 days, is open in plastic gloves, package and gloves wasted immediately with no contacting content.
2. Approaching home we apply desinfectant to the shoes as a must.
3. Personal visits into shops and other public places are minimised to once per month. Weekly delivery from Tesco resolves most of our family needs. Goods are received outside of our house and following routes as described in p.p. 1.1 and p.p. 1.2 above. Yes it is more expensive than normal shopping, but I believe it is safer way.
3.1. Unfortunately only Tesco has more or less "sane" way for online shopping (The "sane" is quoted because it is not completely sane.. Someone would ever say it is probably insane.. But this is better than nothing in current situation)
4. We do not visit any indoor public places, pubs, restaurants, using Phone/Internet for communications
5. When exchanging any items with our friends we are insisting on touchless approach - like you take your bag, open it, and i put thing into it and you wait for 3 days before contacting it.
6. Any items contacted with other people are quarantined too.. In particular i just remembered my driving licence should be somewhere in the car boot in the zip lock after garda at check point touched it couple weeks ago. Completely forgot about it BTW, it is time to take it out there..
7. etc. It is hard to remember all of precautions - me and my wife, after few excercises we just doing this automatically, not thinking about it.
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1000. And yes, i can afford working from home since I do pay rent rent for appropriate house. This makes cocooning easier.

Now about my view of current situation:

1. Covid is highly viral infection
2. Covid is mutating very fast - it was said in the media (sorry i have no links) it has produced about 2 or 3 new stains since lockdown started
3. I do not have official information, but it seems people who had Covid keep immune for about 2 months, after that they are in danger to get infected again
4. p.2 + p.3 means virus changing in 3 months period making acquired immunity useless. Vaccines produced from 1 year old stains will be useless against currently active stain of virus when released to public.
5. From the p.4 - this means Covid will be circulating in the society regularly changing itself for nobody knows how long time with no chance for collective immunity or whatever like that. It will simply re-terate killing these, who have survived 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4rt etc wave. This is worst forecast, but this is what i consider until more optimistic forecast will be available.

So why i writing that much words.

I didn't read Boards for quite long time being busy. Today, mostly because of recent news, i went here, have read latest posts in relation to goverment moving and got impression that the whole Ireland is settled by people denying Covid issue

Guys, i completely understand somebody have lost a job because of this disaster, sitting at home on goverment welfare and having nothing to do rather than posting these things to boards.ie. The only problem it is looking all Irish want to have Covid while it is not true. I do not want you to share your Covid with me. And i believe majority don't wat too, they just have no time to write up here. Just believe - there are a lot of people who would not like to suffer from Covid or its subsequences. Did you hear about subsequences? The "recovered" in the stats does not mean you are back to normal life in some cases. These "recovered" have no virus, but they can have whole spectrum of negative subsequnces. Actually it is hard to say how many people are still as they were before they got influence - many post-Covid syndromes are still present over observed period. And nobody would say will victims of the first wave survive over second, third etc waves. This will be a long story. If you still not accept this - tonight is the right time to change your mind. Just think and understand - Covid here for a long time. We have to accept it and change to take this challenge. This is not only a loss but also an opportunity. The "new normal" opens doors for new businesses. We can see the Tesco moves forward - since intial lockdown they have significantly extended their delivery business while many other sellers losing customers because they were not able to establish any kind of normal selling and delivery in the Internet. Today it is simpler and safer to buy things from Amazon than visiting local shop. This is huge opportunity but no business would invest into it hoping something will magically change.

We are struggling with the jobs lost? Government just have to say truth to people: this will not finish soon. Change your businesses. If you are driver who lost the job - go to goods delivery, there is demand. If you are mechanic or ingeneer who lost the job - work on adapting public transport or infrastructure to current challenges, marketologist from tourist industry? Don't wait new tourists, apply your skills in the selling goods over network, web developer who was developing web-sites to sell touristic services in Ireland? Make internet shops. etc. Many losses can be avoided if you face the truth - for quite long time we will have to live with this, and "new normal" will never be the same as "good old normal".

And, of course, please do not be mislead by a number of people denying Covid impacts on the Boards for 24 hours a day :eek: I'm not agree. I do not want to be infected by this ****. I do support stricter isolation measures. That is it, i just felt i have to say this.