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Covid 19 Part XXXII-215,743 ROI (4,137 deaths)111,166 NI (2,036 deaths)(22/02)Read OP

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  • #812
    Rezident
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,823 ✭✭✭Rezident


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Am I misunderstanding something here?

    Leo saying even with EVERYONE vaccinated in September, we can’t assume herd immunity and probably won’t allow travel to Ireland for Christmas

    So basically saying this will never end?

    Any more messaging like that and the government will completely lose the people.


    That ship has sailed.



    I like Leo, but many, if not most of us have already lost confidence in this shambles of a patchwork government. Their one job was to stop travel in to Ireland LAST MARCH! Not a year later. It's too late now, the damage is done, more than enough people are infected to affect the whole population.



    Punishing those of us that are lonely and isolated for being human is no longer acceptable to many of us that are not vulnerable. If a load of old people have to die, maybe that is Nature or Karma's way of finally bringing down property prices so we can afford a home, instead of all the old people buying two or three houses each - we can see this failed government was never going to do that either.


  • #813
    DraftDodger
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 284 ✭✭DraftDodger


    Quarantine at home lol. Yeah people are going to be doing that alright. Mickey mouse government with mickey mouse measures


  • #814
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Turtwig wrote: »
    A huge swathe of differential diagnoses that have some or all symptoms of covid. Other people are just tested as part of infection control to detect outbreaks early.

    Like colds and flu's?


  • #815
    KrustyUCC
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,077 ✭✭✭KrustyUCC


    Colds yes

    Not sure about flu


  • #816
    NIMAN
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,745 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    My pet hate of this entire pandemic?

    The fact that practically every Indo lead story has a photo of Dr Tony looking pensive.

    https://m.independent.ie/news/coronavirus-ireland-death-toll-passes-3000-as-90-further-deaths-and-928-new-cases-confirmed-40014897.html

    That man is going to make a pile of cash out of all this, gotta be a book in the making.


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  • #817
    hotmail.com
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,373 ✭✭✭✭hotmail.com


    DraftDodger wrote: »
    Quarantine at home lol. Yeah people are going to be doing that alright. Mickey mouse government with mickey mouse measures

    Many of thought it was quarantine at home anyway.


  • #818
    Stheno
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,690 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    iamwhoiam wrote: »
    Yes . Thats what I have decided to do too . I am not listening to Leo rabbit on about next December and get myself worked up
    It is so bad for mental well being , so one day at a time and do the best I can to fill the day and be a tiny bit productive if I can

    Exactly

    After the shock of the past few weeks I think the government are too afraid to be anything other than pessimistic

    I think they got an almighty fright

    Now I can wfh in a dedicated space and I enjoy my work so its a distraction. I also just have my other half who can also wfh

    However I feel for those who are now out of work and essentially in limbo, perhaps worried financially, and having to cope with children stuck at home

    I was temporarily laid off for eight weeks in the first wave, it was truly awful tbh

    Not having an end in sight like now must be rotten

    I'm taking a positive view, that cases will drop hugely, and as vaccines are rolled out we will see some normality return soon, as in a few months


  • #819
    lawred2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,753 ✭✭✭✭lawred2


    Miriam very critical of everything

    She didn't hold herself to the highest standards before Christmas herself either


  • #820
    peasant
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,819 ✭✭✭✭peasant


    CalamariFritti wrote: »
    With every day it looks more likely that only mass protests will get us out of this.

    I'm sure the virus will magically disappear if only enough people protest against it.

    And don't forget the looting.

    I will only work properly if there is looting.


  • #821
    DraftDodger
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 284 ✭✭DraftDodger


    hotmail.com wrote: »
    Many of thought it was quarantine at home anyway.

    If anyone is selfish enough to go on holiday in the middle of a pandemic then they can't be trusted to stay at home.


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  • #822
    Andrew00
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,484 ✭✭✭Andrew00


    Lads what's a PCR test


  • #823
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    KrustyUCC wrote: »
    Colds yes

    Not sure about flu

    I don't think i have heard colds mentioned in the media in ages. They have to be still about.


  • #824
    D.Q
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,054 ✭✭✭D.Q


    It's mad that with all the passionate talk of hwo we're not gonna take it any more on all these threads, there hasn't been any sign of civil disobedience or protests. It's almost as if people are full of ****.


  • #825
    Tpcl20
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 293 ✭✭Tpcl20


    https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/politics/doctor-quits-twitter-after-pr-consultant-claiming-to-be-close-confidante-of-health-minister-said-he-was-undermining-his-clinical-role-40015811.html

    What in all feck are they doing like. Donnelly has always been an utter cretin but one of his communications people running a public health representative off twitter is next-level. Heads need to roll for this, the medical community will be getting behind him 100%.

    Between the Education Minister destroying the trust in the education sector and the Health Minister just destroying what's left of the remnants of the public health sector, it's actually just like they're trying to single-handedly burn the country to the ground, public service by public service.

    Wait now for Eamon Ryan to tell bus drivers they need to take a pay cut and we'll have the triple-whammy.


  • #826
    Mervyn Skidmore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,210 ✭✭✭Mervyn Skidmore


    Can't believe that today I find myself in full agreement with Alan Kelly and even Paul Murphy today. The government are making a shambles out of this.


  • #827
    mcburns07
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,397 ✭✭✭mcburns07


    D.Q wrote: »
    It's mad that with all the passionate talk of hwo we're not gonna take it any more on all these threads, there hasn't been any sign of civil disobedience or protests. It's almost as if people are full of ****.

    People have been beating that drum for months.


  • #828
    Gruffalux
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,023 ✭✭✭Gruffalux


    snotboogie wrote: »
    A vaccine doesnt stop you getting the virus in that it doesn't give you 100% protection, however it does vastly reduce your chance of getting the virus, by between 90% and 95% with the mRNA's. Saying vaccination does not stop one getting covid is very misleading.

    I am not being malicious or intending to mislead. From a google search I have not seen evidence that the current vaccines give sterilising immunity. They may but I have not seen the links. The article I linked has a doctor saying prevention of transmission is unlikely.


  • #829
    odyssey06
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,664 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    I don't think i have heard colds mentioned in the media in ages. They have to be still about.

    Lot of people on the 'have you been tested tested' thread were negative for cold, sinusitis like symptoms. Lot testing positive too.

    I hope we dont get winter vomiting bug... hand sanitiser doesnt work on norovirus.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • #830
    lawred2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,753 ✭✭✭✭lawred2


    DraftDodger wrote: »
    If anyone is selfish enough to go on holiday in the middle of a pandemic then they can't be trusted to stay at home.

    It's not a difficult task for the Irish government to review arrival plans into Ireland..

    Flights arriving from the Canaries! There's near zero travelers going to the Canaries for essential reasons.

    Shut these flights down.

    What sort of yahoo boards a flight to the Canaries?

    But then maybe he's got it right.. he's the happy one. The rest of us fools keeping ourselves at home.


  • #831
    Mervyn Skidmore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,210 ✭✭✭Mervyn Skidmore


    Ryan admitting that the health service has been hiding how bad a job the government have been doing.


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  • #832
    CalamariFritti
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,307 ✭✭✭CalamariFritti


    peasant wrote: »
    I'm sure the virus will magically disappear if only enough people protest against it.

    And don't forget the looting.

    I will only work properly if there is looting.

    Well now there is talk that even full vaccination of the population does not guarantee herd immunity and that restrictions may not even end then.

    At what point doesn't the cure become worse than the disease? And yes I'm fully aware who famously said that. I dont care anymore.


  • #833
    Psychedelic Hedgehog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 498 ✭✭Psychedelic Hedgehog


    I think the government tried to underpromise with the expectation of overdelivering in terms of a timeline to return to normal, in order to keep people committed to the restrictions in the short term. They made an absolute balls of it, however.

    I'm choosing to concentrate on positive news, though. Won't do the noggin any good doing otherwise.


  • #834
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Rezident wrote: »
    That ship has sailed.



    I like Leo, but many, if not most of us have already lost confidence in this shambles of a patchwork government. Their one job was to stop travel in to Ireland LAST MARCH! Not a year later. It's too late now, the damage is done, more than enough people are infected to affect the whole population.



    Punishing those of us that are lonely and isolated for being human is no longer acceptable to many of us that are not vulnerable. If a load of old people have to die, maybe that is Nature or Karma's way of finally bringing down property prices so we can afford a home, instead of all the old people buying two or three houses each - we can see this failed government was never going to do that either.

    Is this post for real?


  • #835
    KrustyUCC
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,077 ✭✭✭KrustyUCC


    More than 800 people caught COVID in hospital this month according to Prime Time


  • #836
    PrairieDawn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 95 ✭✭PrairieDawn


    Is anyone watching the documentary on bbc2 right now? Its about what was happening right back in Jan


  • #837
    Gruffalux
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,023 ✭✭✭Gruffalux


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Eamon Ryan letting slip, "Managing Covid would involve a year or two lockdown".

    Get these muppets out of government. Running the country into the ground

    Yes!! Bring in the Other Muppets!!


  • #838
    CalamariFritti
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,307 ✭✭✭CalamariFritti


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Eamon Ryan letting slip, "Managing Covid would involve a year or two lockdown".

    Get these muppets out of government. Running the country into the ground

    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=116061474&postcount=803


  • #839
    cameramonkey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,220 ✭✭✭cameramonkey


    CalamariFritti wrote: »
    Well now there is talk that even full vaccination of the population does not guarantee herd immunity and that restrictions may not even end then.

    At what point doesn't the cure become worse than the disease? And yes I'm fully aware who famously said that. I dont care anymore.


    who is saying full vaccination of the population does not guarantee herd immunity?


  • #840
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,311 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    KrustyUCC wrote: »
    More than 800 people caught COVID in hospital this month according to Prime Time

    Shhhhhhhh Tony Holohan will start beating the alcohol drum again.


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  • #841
    Mervyn Skidmore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,210 ✭✭✭Mervyn Skidmore


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Is this post for real?

    That post is vaguely similar to a conspiracy theory that the Chinese released this to kill off old people to free up property and reduce pension payments. Bonkers stuff.


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