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The stunt been pulled that vaccinated 12-18 year olds activately displaying covid symptoms not having to self isolate/stay out of school, will put them under some pressure once schools start up in a few weeks

Two families here not vaccinating and socialising, yet going into their 80 year old parents house same as there was no virus..... I don't care what the science says but that's not right.

I'm vaccinated so I don't care about what others are doing, if it kills me I know I've done my best to avoid it

Well I'm treating it same the flu until i learn other wise, Is Hse not declaring the vaccinated positive cases because they're ashamed of so many or because of their ongoing computer problems

Bury their head in the sand and pretend it wont happen...

From what I understand the child is not a close contact unless they are sitting next to/behind /in front of a positive test person .That's from secondary school last year .Sharing a classroom doesn't make you a close contact .Apart from that unless they spent the entire break time in close proximity to the person .

Same as training or playing a game with a person .Only if you traveled to or from game/training with the positive case .That's from last years guidelines .That may have changed but to be frank have totally lost interest in all the ins and outs of it .

As regards the vaccination status ;do you know which children/teachers have their MMR etc ? Or if any of them suffer from any condition that might have a miniscule chance of affecting others ?

Wonder if any of the pupils have Hep. C or maybe a teacher might have came to work one day with a particularly bad head cold ?

Even God forbid someone may have came with some condition that was so mild they were actually unaware they had it .

Think people are really starting to overthink some of this stuff at this stage .

Think education is slightly more important than swimming lessons .

What annoyed me was yesterdays indo headline piece where it read like if the child were vaccinated they would be allowed to attend even if close contact but would miss 2 weeks schooling if not .

Very subtle pressure but think we will hold off here with getting them vaccinated until its been tried for a while in other peoples kids .

I see ten cars outside a local air BnB farmhouse this morning, and similar at an air BnB in the local village so there's not a lot of point in the rest of us taking precations.

It depends on the severity of the new variant, I wouldn't accept another lockdown if covid wasn't putting the hospitals under pressure.

.08% of the vaccinated are getting covid apparently

Yes the vaccines are working. Had the adult pop not been vaccinated, the hospital system would be totally overwhwelmed at this stage.

Really delighted to see all those young people eager to get the vaccine.

When a new variant comes along, we know the mRNA vaccines can be reengineered quite quickly.

I think by and large this country has managed excellently. The major outbreak through the nursing homes in the first wave is the one major blemish. Had that been handled better we would have halved the number of deaths.

This whole pandemic is showing up our health service for what it is or should I say years of neglect have let it become …a shambles .all that’s stopping it collapsing is the strict lockdown we’ve been in ,high vaccine uptake and excellent healthcare workers …we will have to be kept in check for a long time even with high vaccination uptake because of years of underfunding and inept management of it by the hse

anyone know the status of antigen testing atm .there is huge farting around by the govt on this .why this hasn’t been rolled out by now Is farcical the vaccine has been showed to be effective but not fully surely a negative antigen test either in conjunction with or without a vaccine to gain access to indoor dining etc should be gold standard and extra layer of protection for us as a country and our healthcare system

They have also backed themselves into a bit of a corner with previous comments on antigen testing. Nphet arent going to admit they were wrong.