Covid 19 Part XXXV-956,720 ROI (5,952 deaths) 452,946 NI (3,002 deaths) (08/01) Read OP

harr wrote: »

A lot of older people don’t read beyond a headline and watch RTÉ exclusively for news so what a lot are hearing is scaremongering .
A lot of older people were nearly locked up for a year and only getting back to some normality now .. so when they hear a Doctor say “ a black cloud on the Horizon “ it frightens them.
Not everyone has the capability of going looking for facts and figures in the appropriate place and only have George Lee to listen to.

A lot of older people actually read the article as opposed to younger people who's attention spans have been wrecked by social media and hence only pay attention to headlines and then go and get triggered.
But yeah carry on.

castletownman wrote: »

Did I see something about Holohan only getting vaccinated today?

It seems ludicrous to me if he's a healthcare worker, although he is probably happy enough to spread doom from his high horse rather than actually help with the vaccine rollout as a doctor.

Or maybe he's just serving a dose of realism? Maybe?

JP100 wrote: »

NPHET on the one hand deem the situation not serious enough to meet weekly anymore but on the other hand come out with the usual scariant stuff just in time for people going into their weekends and for discussions on the further lifting of restrictions early next week.

And managed to upset a lot of people with family in the UK . We were all looking forward to seeing family ,kids , grandchildren , sisters and brothers after nearly 18 months .

stephenjmcd wrote: »

Meh not all too concerned by this. We'll have the EU travel pass by mid July time, after that free to go where you want. Only about 6 or 7 weeks to go.

I am and lots of people with family in the UK ?

iamwhoiam wrote: »

And managed to upset a lot of people with family in the UK . We were all looking forward to seeing family ,kids , grandchildren , sisters and brothers after nearly 18 months .

Doubt if it will be applying to those vaccinated .

iamwhoiam wrote: »

And managed to upset a lot of people with family in the UK . We were all looking forward to seeing family ,kids , grandchildren , sisters and brothers after nearly 18 months .

Lines are regularly thrown out at this stage now by NPHET with very little empathy for what alot of people have gone through and are continuing to go through during this pandemic. They're behaving like robots at this stage and expecting us to do likewise while our politicians continue to hide behind the sofa.

stephenjmcd wrote: »

Yes and in a few weeks time it'll be possible. Nothing realistically was going to happen before July time anyway.

Let's see what next weeks announcement brings. Mood music is still UK travel start of July, EU travel to follow soon after.

Thanks . I am just upset tonight with this nonsense being peddled . I just need to see my daughter in the UK and she needs to see us . She can not isolate for 5 days as she would only be able to stay here for 3-5 days .
Thankfully she is vaccinated with one dise of AZ and second one in July

Goldengirl wrote: »

Are we on their red list? Surely not

No, not at all.

It's quarantine when I come home that's the issue. It was a major struggle to get enough time off to do what's needed to be done, if I have to quarantine when I come home, I have to cancel unfortunately.

Is it 72 cases of Indian variant here?

Promising news.



https://twitter.com/jburnmurdoch/status/1396015144233222144

Jinglejangle69 wrote: »

I'm literally banging my head off a wall listening to the radio stations letting da gascin and co say if the Indian variant evades the vaccine were in trouble even though we have had the vaccine manufacturers come out today saying that won't happen.

Am I living in a parallel universe here?

How are they allowed get way with this on air?

Blatent lies. Its scandalous.

Lying on the airwaves to the whole nation.

Boy who cried wolf situation, they have shown that they will insinuate that a variant evades the vaccine when there is proof otherwise, the next time they insinuate that who will listen???

Good to see none of the rags ran with the scary variant story on their front pages.. strange that is the case. Usually they’d have it plastered!

wadacrack wrote: »

Yet posters still bring it up on here and discuss the negativity for the day. Strange

Our CMO and NPHET who have been advising our every move throughout the pandemic are the ones who have been reporting on it.

"black clouds on the horizon" is how Tony Holahan described it.
And went on to say the PHE had data that will likely show that there would be a decrease in the effectiveness of the vaccine against transmition.

So it Is certainly relevent to discuss what he has said on this forum, it is a bit worrying that he would say these things when details about what PHE were not even released at that point. People will say yea but it is better he tells us the truth. But he does seem to be scaremongering with the way he said it.
And I am someone who has agreed with most of how they have handled things so far.

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Hopefully that will dispel any black clouds on the horizon, most of the general public have had it to here with negativity and "concern" after 14 months. The vaccines are proving their weight in gold, let us never contemplate lockdown again.

So all in - another panic. So we hold our nerve - gradual reopening and get as many vaccines into arms as possible.