Acceptable Covid death rates

Sure you know your own health but you also have no idea how you will react to covid, and you also dont know if you had it already. You might be more high risk but thats just simply the cards you have been dealt in life, nobody has a perfect hand.

as far as an “acceptable level of deaths” our entire health system is built on having an acceptable level of deaths. We are fast approaching 1 million people in ireland waiting for treatment of some type, so the HSE & gov have accepted a large portion of the population going untreated some of whom will die from preventable or treatable ailments.

AFAIK every country where the virus was widespread lost large numbers of nursing home residents. Seems like the only way this could have been prevented, or largely prevented, would have been through very extreme measures like totally isolating the entire community, including staff, for months on end.

So are you saying that we should keep everything locked up and pay people to stay at home until there is no covid anymore?

People have done what has been asked of them, should they not now be allowed to get on with lives? The government have a fine line to walk here, they have had a remarkable uptake of the vaccine in comparison to some other countries. Do you think people are going to continue to be so compliant if they enforce more lockdowns etc.?

My final point still stands, these people had a right to be there and had complied with the government requirements to be vaccinated, should they just decide not to go? Their excitement is understandable, maybe not to yourself as you've always had a different risk profile, but to these kids, a lot of whom could be going out for the first time legally to a nightclub considering they were all shut for the best part of 18 months.

No need to be so dramatic.

Wearing a mask on public transport only means you wear it all day if you are on the transport all day. Which means you are either driving the bus (in which case you don't need one as you are in your little box) or else you are drifting around like hobo using public transport purely to keep out of the rain and cold.

If it got to the stage where they just aren't arsed at all to enforce restrictions (they aren't enforcing them now that I could see btw) then I'd suggest that the likes of Irish Rail introduce some special non-mask carriages. There are plenty of "mask rebels" who are happy not to wear a mask when everyone else is, but put theirs on when not. I saw an example of this on the train a while back. A relatively young Irish girl got on, sat down across from a mask wearing older lady. The girl pulled out her phone, pulled her mask under her chin and started playing with her phone. An African lady then got on and sat in beside the older lady. The African lady had her mask on, but well under her nose and not covering her mouth properly because it was about a half an inch in front of her face at the top. It was like it was upside down or something and whatever way she had it halfway down around her chin. As soon as the Irish girl saw that the African lady was not wearing her mask properly she immediately put her own mask. I don't know whether that was because the lady was African. But when she was sitting across from the older Irish lady who was wearing a mask, she didn't seem too concerned about covid! I would think that there are plenty of people with similar attitudes to yourself, who wouldn't actually go and sit in a carriage of similar people. You are happy enough to freeride on the backs of others making an effort and protecting you without you doing your bit. That is an attitude that is present in many people throughout society - whether it be people who opt for a life on the dole or whatever. It's the same attitude.

Wearing a mask in enclosed public areas during the time of a pandemic common courtesy or manners - the same as covering your mouth and nose when you cough or sneeze. Although perhaps the word "common" might not be applicable to the overall boards.ie population when it comes to manners!

The sad thing for yourself is that you probably thought, when posting that, that it somehow made you look smart.

"So what did you do today Risteard81?"

"Oh I had a great day. I am particularly proud of myself. I managed to sneer at some immuno-compromised fella online because if he catches covid it will probably kill him. It made me feel very good about myself"