Are we there yet? Your second Travel Megathread (threadbans in OP}

TomSweeney wrote: »

Must be because they just aren't testing, do you really think less than 25 people in a population of 100,000 have covid ?

Remember this virus is endemic.

Israel is doing 2.5 tests/100k people/day. That's more than Germany. Israel's positivity rate is 0.1% and they have around 3 new cases a day per million people.

I'm not sure why I'm bothering to counter with facts opinions just sharted out of your head.

Dr. Em wrote: »

It is a bit strange that Hungary's cases are about the same as Ireland with the number they are vaccinating. Does anyone have any insights?

Chinese and Russian vaccines.

Tazz T wrote: »

China's Sinopharm is crap. It's not dealing with some variants. There was a big spike in the seychelles where more than half of the population got Sinopharm, but the south african and UK variant was still infecting people.

Why's that Important? (in general) as you can still catch the virus with any vaccine?

Those vaccines are still 60 or 80% effective against the Corona, so if they keep people out of hospitals and if you do contract the virus then it's nothing more than a dose of the flu would be?

We have to all move away from using case numbers as a reason to close borders and move to hospitalizations and health service capacity etc..

What do ye predict will be said tomorrow with regards UK travel ? End of self isolation for them coming here ?

dashoonage wrote: »

Sky news are reporting the possibility of an Olympic Variant from the Olympic games...

:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:

There's no hope then. That variant will be fitter and stronger than anything we've faced!

Multipass wrote: »

Brilliant, I’m going out of my way to catch that one :pac:

its the only way ill achieve my lockdown fitness goals.

patscott27 wrote: »

Russian ones will have to compete as an independent Olympic variant

Those will need to be tested for athlete enhancing substances.

They should set up a special event for variants this year to see who comes out on top.

pc7 wrote: »

Apologies if already posted but why tf extend it if you can just come in from Belfast. https://twitter.com/seandefoe/status/1397897714759835648?s=21 and europe will have a green cert?

As long as it's just for countries with out of control levels of Covid like India I don't have a problem with it. No European countries, the US or any other country with high level of vaccinations should remain on the list.

pc7 wrote: »

Apologies if already posted but why tf extend it if you can just come in from Belfast. https://twitter.com/seandefoe/status/1397897714759835648?s=21 and europe will have a green cert?

Extending MHQ doesn't tie in with any green cert. Green cert is for EU countries at the moment.

MHQ almost certainly looks to be extended but for countries like India etc.

MHQ is going to exist alongside the green cert, 2 different things

https://www.brusselstimes.com/news/belgium-all-news/171142/threshold-for-next-relaxations-reached-fewer-than-500-covid-patients-in-icu-consultative-committee-pedro-facon-van-gucht-summer-plan/

Who was it said data not dates?

pc7 wrote: »

Apologies if already posted but why tf extend it if you can just come in from Belfast. https://twitter.com/seandefoe/status/1397897714759835648?s=21 and europe will have a green cert?

The law is that you have to quarantine in a designated facility if you have been in one of the listed countries over the relevant timeframe. It has nothing to do with how you travelled from there to the State.



What you are asking is "why is it a law if I can potentially break it without being caught?" Which could apply to probably almost any law.

It is time to end these restrictions.

It is time for the government to do its actual job which is supposed to be about improving the economy, creating jobs and ensuring freedoms.

Instead of doing their actual job - they have forgotten what it is - they are keeping busy by dreaming up ways of stopping travel, ending inward investment, causing job losses and bankruptcies, and removing anything that could make Ireland an attractive place to live, to do business or to travel. And the bill for all of this, they are running up on your cheque book.

It is time to end these restrictions. If not now, then when?

Wallander wrote: »

Interesting to see. Belgium's population is 2.3 times that of Ireland's, so opening indoor dining with fewer than 500 in ICU there is a direct equivalent to opening indoor dining here once ICU cases are lower than 217. That would have meant a closure of indoor dining on 24 January this year and reopening on 26 January - the only two days of the pandemic that threshold has been beaten!

I wonder will there be tribunal after all this. I like how the UK are holding a pretty open warts and all look at what they got wrong, hopefully we do the same.