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

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,132 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    This is a rerun of the complaints from last April on. The rate in boosters of over 70s will be lower as it's GP-driven but the over 60s should power along via the MVCs. Some GPs we know have not really stepped up all that much. The immunocompromised will be in the middle again unless they were done through MVCs and HCWs is a hospital management issue.

    Post edited by is_that_so on


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,192 ✭✭✭GeorgeBailey


    Just remember that when type something about Nazis/the third reich/Hitler that that's the time to realise you've lost the run of yourself and to maybe rethink clicking on Post Comment.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,456 ✭✭✭✭iamwhoiam


    My sister is immuno compromised and had her booster two weeks ago . She got a text from the HSE that her consultant had passed her name on to them . Done in City West this time , her first and second were done in GPs surgery



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,213 ✭✭✭✭Jim_Hodge


    The prime minister says it is, as it's currently a single party majority government. She has no doubts about it.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,081 ✭✭✭✭titan18


    Tbf, to the Jewish argument, it took a good 7/8 years for Hitler to amass enough followers and power that doing what he ended up doing. We've undoubtedly slipped a long way in 2 years as it is, and hell, people who were saying this would happen last year were labelled crackpot conspiracy theorists. I doubt we're going full Holocaust anytime soon (or probably ever), but there's a lot more that can be stripped away.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,425 ✭✭✭maestroamado


    I am wondering how reliable this covid testing is..

    Eamonn Ryan got tested 2 times over a very short period 1 positive one negative.. i expect considering his position it likely a proper test... not the cheap tests i be buying...

    Does this suggest that the testing unreliable... 50/50...



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,213 ✭✭✭✭Jim_Hodge


    If you really believe that then you need to spend a few hours away from Boards and learn some history. It's an absurd comparison.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,830 ✭✭✭DebDynamite


    Comparisons to how gay men were treated in the 80s during the AIDS epidemic was another good one. I wouldn’t be surprised if the Magdalene laundries was brought up next...

    Post edited by DebDynamite on


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,081 ✭✭✭✭titan18


    Not how it works there though. It has to pass through their Epidemic commission and if a majority there oppose it, it doesn't happen. It probably will happen but from reading Danish sites, their journalists aren't clear who's opposing it (they have local elections next week too so some might reject or approve it depending on where opinions lie)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,669 ✭✭✭brickster69


    I think we may see another conspiracy theory come alive tonight as Macron is to make an emergency address to the nation. Early " leaks " are suggesting mandatory boosters set to come in.

    Niccolò Machiavelli :

    "To ally with great powers to defeat your neighbour is a strategic trap; if you win, you become the slave of the greater power; if the allied power is defeated, you remain alone and defenceless against the angry neighbour, and you are destroyed." - Niccolò Machiavelli



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,569 ✭✭✭Jinglejangle69


    In Australia you can't receive child benefit or go to certain schools if you're child isn't vaccinated.


    That was long before covid and they seem to be doing fine.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,213 ✭✭✭✭Jim_Hodge


    The Epidemic Commission are the one's who called for it.

    Look, I'm not nit-picking any more on this with you.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,131 ✭✭✭FintanMcluskey


    That's not what fascist authoritarian regimes do.

    Your correct thats not what fascist authoritarian regimes do.

    They convince the majority that the minority are the problem.

    Anyway I'm fully vaccinated months ago and back to normal now as promised.

    Oh wait



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,463 ✭✭✭Cork2021


    So what? I’ve had a few interviews the last couple of months and they’ve always asked was I okay talking without the mask, and if all parties agreed off they came! People want to see expressions etc..




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,081 ✭✭✭✭titan18


    I mislabelled it above. The Epidemic Committee have to pass it, there's a difference between the Epidemic Commission and the Epidemic Committee.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,819 ✭✭✭timmyntc


    How else do you think seasonal viruses spread? Its from changes in human behaviour with the changing of the seasons. More indoor socializing allows respiratory viruses to spread easier.

    No I am not saying cases are under control - you have completely misinterpreted my post if thats what you took away. My point is endemic status does not depend on whether cases are under control or not - influenza is endemic and yet every winter it gets out of control in this country.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 2,381 ✭✭✭CruelSummer


    What I find lacks credibility on this thread is when a poster lists out facts such as the hate campaign against the unvaccinated, the shameless propaganda from Government & media, the new measures introduced in Lithuania, they’re told it’s not credible. I know history very well, the Third Reich didn’t happen overnight, it took years of indoctrination & propaganda. To state the same propaganda mechanisms aren’t at play now before all took off back then is false.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,192 ✭✭✭Deeper Blue


    Has there been a spike in hospital numbers or something?

    How are we "fooked" exactly? 🙄



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,037 ✭✭✭Russman


    To be fair, that's been the wording in the text results of PCRs going back to late summer 2020 at least.

    That's not to diminish the PR sh1t show they've made of the Ryan situation, he was going to that conference come hell or high water.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 713 ✭✭✭manniot2


    User is threadbanned

    Post edited by Ten of Swords on


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,037 ✭✭✭Russman


    Has McCraith really been stepped down already ? Wow.

    I get that we got almost finished or to a high enough % covered, but surely boosters being administered can't have been unforeseen and he should have been retained for a while longer, no ?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,582 ✭✭✭alias no.9


    If there are criteria by which people are called for retests, it should be easy emough to give numbers for the last 3 months or something like that along with the second test pass / fail rate. If it's standard practice, nobody would have an issue.

    Until then it's new rules for politicians.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,604 ✭✭✭Amadan Dubh


    Speaking of WWII and Magdalene laundries comparisons; maybe it would be easier at this stage to just give the unvaccinated stars to wear on their clothing so then they'll be shamed too much to hold out much longer. Let the Gardai have powers to carry out random spot checks on covid passes on the street. The unvaccinated won't be long getting vaccinated or will at the very least hide themselves. Problem solved! At least, the problem of the unvaccinated; we still need to deal with the problem that vaccinated people are ending up in hospital and dying - just another few weeks or months of restrictions until we figure out how to solve the human mortality and ageing problem.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,542 ✭✭✭floorpie


    From the article:

    In addition Austria’s Covid app, used to gain access to closed spaces, will now only consider someone fully vaccinated for nine months after their second Covid jab, to encourage people to get a booster shot.

    For the conspiracy theory forum...right guys?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,173 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    Your belief is that there is a global (or at least Pan-European) effort currently underway to build a new authoritarian regime based on the suppression of a cohort of people who didn't even exist a year ago, and where membership of that cohort is not fixed, nor based on ethnicity, heritage, sexuality, gender, ability, etc.

    It's more than absurd. The victim complex of anti-vaxxers knows no bounds tbh. Today you're being asked to stay out of close quarters indoors spaces until a pandemic abates. Clearly the logical outcome of this is the gas chamber.

    **** hell.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,192 ✭✭✭Deeper Blue


    But even if they take a step back they're still likely less restricted than us or similarly restricted with less theatre.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,081 ✭✭✭✭titan18


    Don't worry, someone will be along to say it's just one more booster. Chances are higher it'll be compulsory yearly boosters than just one more.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,037 ✭✭✭Russman


    I'd have no issue with that, my only point was that the phrase "detected COVID" or "COVID not detected" has been in the HSE texts since at least August 2020 when I was sent one.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,604 ✭✭✭Amadan Dubh


    I think there is a victim complex among those overweight people in their 50s and 60s who command the positions of power in health, politics etc. acting like the whole of society should bend over to accommodate their own, self-imposed vulnerabilities.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,648 ✭✭✭Micky 32



    ”However, it also said that it expected to hear there will be no further introduction of restrictions, considering the level of vaccination of the general population was above 92%.”



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