Relaxation of Restrictions, Part XII *Read OP For Mod Warnings*

We're nowhere near capacity. Our covid ICU usage has hovered between 70-100 beds for the last month. It was at 220 during the January 2021 peak, 300% higher, when we had fewer ICU beds in the country at the time. And your desperate hypothetical on having to deny people medical care still didn't happen then. Anyone presenting to a hospital still received treatment.

The UK has never been anywhere near hospitals at full capacity. They deliberately kept some people in care homes rather than hospitals because as other posters have outlined in the last few pages of this very thread thats longstanding medical policy, for quality of life and disease spread issues. Again, the verified statistics on ICU capacity usage there are very clear and completely disagree with your interpretation. Nobody has ever, at any point in the corona crisis, been refused medical treatment in the UK due to hospitals being at capacity.

How many posts and you're still desperately focusing on terrifying hypotheticals with no statistical basis in reality? You need to stop obsessing over covid numbers on the nightly news, get off the computer, and get out there and go back to normal life. It would do wonders for curing the fear and pessimism.

I'm going to put this out there now that I will be a fully vaccinated person (J&J one shot) never opting for a booster.

The man who found time in the middle of a ‘deadly pandemic’ to appear in a plastic bubble on television just for a laugh 🙄

it makes him feel warm and fuzzy that people he doesn't regard are being segregated

Can I just clarify, Luke O'Neill has no medical influence. He's not influencing medical professionals, medical advice. He's a rent a gob academic. I actually got annoyed when I say the headline in the Independent of him talking about ICUs when he doesnt know the first thing about ICUs (or hospitals for that matter). He is not a medical doctor. Much the same as Tomas Ryan, Aoife McLysaght etc. Dont confuse media commentary with actual medical advice or influence.

we wanna be free, we wanna be free to do what we wanna do

And we wanna get loaded and we wanna have a good time

And that's what we're gonna do

We're gonna have a good time, we're gonna have a party

Thanks but I think you’re misunderstanding my post.

He is already double vaccinated. The issue is having to constantly pay for a PCR test if he wants to have any sort of social life (bars, restaurants, theatres, etc). That simply isn’t sustainable at all. They might as well just introduce a blanket lockdown.

But like Seamus said a few posts back, it seems to be just a recommendation for now and so hopefully it stays that way.

There’ll be a big bad scary variant along soon to ‘encourage’ people to get the booster if they won’t do it willingly.

I think its because of a higher chance of them ending up in icu.. something like 17 times higher (?)

Martin's latest comments suggest we will not be copying Austria.

Went for a few pints yesterday afternoon, sat outside, no cert checked, no masks while drinking, staff were wearing them alright, only put one on myself to go in and take a slash

Was nice