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

No, he had hoped that the high cases were due to football/post-leaving cert stuff, and that today's lower cases were indicative that things weren't as bad as previous days had suggested.

I had to laugh at Leo on Newstalk today, all Billy Big Balls talking about how he wanted more data about covid numbers in hospitals, how it was important to know if they caught covid in hospital or were there for some other reason etc etc.

**** hilarious. Hey Leo, March 2020 called, it wants its completely obvious question back! Coming into August 2021 and now he wants to know the real data about covid admissions? Doesn't he know that the bedwetters have been calling that irrelevant for 18 months now?

A day late and a dollar short, nothing new there from our useless government.

No.

Cases will rise over the next month until most are fully vaccinated , especially as opening up .

Unfortunately the higher numbers will inevitably see a few more with serious disease and in ICU following on from that but in small numbers .

I am hopeful that that will be the worst of it though .

I hope if you say you won't be showing a pass to enter a pub that means you won't be trying to enter a pub rather than the alternative.

I know a few publicans who are already having to make posts on social media to respond to attacks from people who seem intent to blame the industry rather than the government for this situation.

Is it 18 days + for both mRNA vaccines? Or just Pfizer?

Are you sure about the shorter dosing interval? When I got my first jab they told me it’d be 28 days. I didn’t see anything in the news about a change but I could’ve missed it.

Cheers! I missed those posts until now. It’s great to have some good news and I’ll have to start keeping an eye on the vaccine portal again!

Very little comfort when the models are being used to influence and has a direct baring government decisions

The modelling definitely scared the government especially the pessimistic scenarios NPHET presented

"On the other hand the pessimistic scenario is totally different, over 2,000 deaths occurring over a three month period. A wave as severe as any that we’ve experienced to date, with hospitals coming under enormous pressure and ICU is in particular. So with that in mind, bearing in mind that the pessimistic scenario is a potential outcome, we decided that we’re going to be cautious and we’re going to err on the side of caution.

In terms of which scenario was more likely, the Taoiseach said that NPHET advised that the situation could “land somewhere between” the first central scenario and the second central scenario. 

Marin said that “what is clear” is that the reopening of indoor hospitality as had been planned made the more pessimistic scenarios more likely. 

“What is clear from NPHET’s advice is that if we were to proceed as we had planned in our entirety from 5 July onwards, we would significantly increase the risk of the more negative scenarios and the pessimistic scenarios that they have outlined, which really would have a very significant impact on people, on our health service and on mortality, and that was the context in which government took that advice,” the Taoiseach said. 

https://www.thejournal.ie/delta-wave-nphet-letter-deaths-5480452-Jun2021/

I am not getting into a to and fro with you when your understanding of what people like me went through during the last 17 or 18 months is so limited that you talk about overtime and flu vaccines.

There is a real whiff of a re Reg about you but will leave that to the very busy mods to sort out... G&L