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

There could be something in that. I had a very bad rhinovirus infection on October bank holiday weekend 2020. Hospitalised for 4 days, that came after pneumonia, hospitalised for 5 days back on paddy's weekend 2020. Sick (pun intended) of hospitals!!! I'm an asthmatic so would be in the vulnerable but not severe category. I have had both shots of vaccine and haven't had so much of a sniffle since October 2020. Could be a fluke who knows

Edit: just to add I'm usually healthy enough & last visit to hospital was when I was a kid

Don't post lies and speculation, don't get called out......

How many pubs did you have to search before you found one with a negative twist?

But should or should not doesn't matter to a large number of people at this stage. Getting tested is a pain in the hole. I've had over 60 PCR tests since this began. And not one positive result. People get fatigued and the effect it can have is like the boy who cried wolf. So when they don't feel that ill and it's the equivalent to a head cold. Of course people will take the easier option of testing at home. People are just tired of the whole thing. Like will we still be here in December 2022 or in 2023 asking people to go for PCR tests a when they have cold like symptoms. Covid does not look to be going anywhere.

I reckon a lot of people's circles are mixing with other vaccinated people given the high percentage achieved. I know among my group of friends and family, there isn't much care given about mixing as everyone is vaccinated. The same level of risk evaluation that existed before vaccines is not there for a large cohort.

Jaysus, you follow this thread & ye all want Holahan, Nolan & Donnelly burnt at the stake.

Yet the online poll on the Journal 63% of the population agree with the new restrictions with a majority wanting them to go further.

Deary me, you haven't created an echo chamber in here have you ?

Where are the vocal majority gone ?

As that was my example. I can tell you what would have happened if they all got negative antigen results. None of them would have got PCR tests. Which is the same outcome had they never done an antigen test in the first place.

Can use hypotheticals all we want. But in this case, antigen testing resulted in 14 PCR tests and 13 positives. Surely that is helping overall. Of course they're not ideal. Or equivalent to PCR. But they will help people who may otherwise have slipped through the cracks.

Yeah, it's actually mental. 2021 was a lot worse with restrictions than 2020. As far as I can see, we have gotten worse. It's not inconceivable that they will try to keep some sort of restrictions past the winter at the rate their hard on for power persists. Absolute insanity and hysteria to the max.

Its looking more and more like the right thing to do. Hospitalisations aren't astronomical, deaths are comparable to what we have in general now.

The problem is this level of hospitalisations - steady state if you like with a completely open economy - is fine for the NHS (just about) but is way too high for the HSE.

Yeah, exactly. The Journal comments are typically a top comment to do with holding firm or blaming pubs or some other BS with an occasional comment going against it and then the neckbearded/mask wearing selfie mob start insulting the dissenting voice.

In any event, there is no transparency whatsoever in the poll.

What are the death rates in each since their opening?

I don't have figures to hand but in the earlier parts the UK was certainly much worse than us for deaths. Since their reopening, things have been comparable. Multiply our deaths, hospitalisations and cases by about 13 to take account of the population (roughly).

For deaths in last week I'm seeing 43 for ireland.

1194 for a week in UK.

So 43 x 13 equals 559

What am I doing wrong?

Numbers are not too bad really Wolfey when you compare them by population

cases - 38,263 IRE - 3,633 x 13.6 = 49,409

People in hospital - 8,705 IRE - 634 x 13.6 = 8622

ICU - 938 IRE 119 x 13.6 = 1618

Got to think that with them being 8-10 weeks ahead with this Delta thing that the last thing anyone following them needs to see now is things going up a lot soon, especially when they have just handed out those 13.5 million boosters as well. Hopefully the mortality rates follow soon shortly and all those people under restrictions elsewhere get to see a flickering light at the end of tunnel.