Deleted User wrote: » Loads of people who had covid felt it was just a flu - but infect enough people and enough of the reactions will become statistically significant from a health care perspective to require restrictions, even if it's a younger demographic. "a great story" - not sure what you meant by this, do you think it's scaremongering?
mfceiling wrote: » According to the BBC news on the radio yesterday, 80% of the adult population have 1 dose and 60% have 2. Surely herd immunity must be close to kicking in? There's a lower risk of hospitalisation amongst the younger generation so I don't think the hospitals are going to be overwhelmed.
awec wrote: » What's interesting about this delay is that we have an excellent control case in NI that will show us whether or not NPHETs modelling is in any way accurate. If NPHET are correct, things in NI are going to get very grim over the next few months. I will watch with interest.
awec wrote: » Case rate is of no consequence any more. Hospitalisations and deaths are the only relevant statistics at this stage. If hospitalisations and subsequently deaths surge in NI in the next few months then NPHET will have got it spot on.
Squidgy Black wrote: » Problem with herd immunity is it's almost impossible to say when it comes in to play, but I think about 20% of the UKs population is under 18, so at the moment they're at roughly 60% herd immunity, and I think the last figure I seen for herd immunity was 75% of total population.
Interested Observer wrote: » I'm pretty disgusted by this latest delay. There are ~30-50 people in hospital with Covid and obviously fewer in ICU. Deaths seem to have stopped entirely, if people were still dying of Covid I'm sure ISAG or George Lee or someone would be quick to tell us. At some point we need to forget the case levels, Covid is not going to disappear. If you're younger than about 30 this govt has given you basically no reason to ever support them. In the UK my understanding is there are groups who are reluctant to take the vaccines, I wonder if the rise in hospitalisations is in that cohort. In Ireland we seem to have very high uptake.
irishbucsfan wrote: » Case rate is of huge consequence. Every case is another chance for the virus to escape the vaccine. Look at where all the variants originated. Plus on a purely selfish level, when your taste does eventually come back, it can be all screwed up. I know someone who can’t drink coffee any more. That terrifies me! I need to protect my productivity.
mfceiling wrote: » Speaking of coffee... Went to my local coffee trailer this morning. 2 flat whites, 1 with an extra shot. €8.10. Yep...€8.10. Thanks but no thanks lads. We've hit peak coffee now.
prawnsambo wrote: » I think the delay is to get more people vaccinated before we get to the point where there is a good deal more mixing indoors. Summer months last year saw very few cases, but they started to ramp up once September came. The cases now are comparably higher, so there's much more scope for those figures to get out of control quickly. It's happening in the UK and although hospitalisations are lower, they have more people vaccinated than us. At the rate we're going (assuming supply is constant) we should have another 1.4 million vaccinations done by the end of July.
aloooof wrote: » As far as I recall, weren't delivery of Pfizer vaccines due to slow down (albeit after peak numbers of almost 1 million across 3 weeks)? That might well be because we have a relatively high % vaccinated so need less supply, but not sure.
thomond2006 wrote: » I don't really care about the indoor pubs/dining remaining closed. It's the sense of directionlessness (is that a word?) that is more irritating.
aloooof wrote: » There's a headline on RTE that reads "Consternation as ministers 'blindsided' by NPHET". That could've been lifted, word for word, from last Autumn/Winter when they recommended going from level 3 to 5. Lessons don't seem to have been learned.
Yeah_Right wrote: » Am I the only one that doesn't think that's extortionate? A bit pricey but not over the top.
Clegg wrote: » Vice on Abbey Street was my local coffee shop before the lockdowns began. Think it was €3.30 for a flat white/latte/americano. It's pretty much the standard price for any barista made coffee I think.
Bazzo wrote: » Am I the only person left on the planet who doesn't drink coffee (excepting Irish coffee of course) ?
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