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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: 2,677 ✭✭✭Happydays2020


    I probably could but Paul 400k a year Reid is paid to do that job already. I don’t think it is too much to ask that our health service delivers the booster vaccines it says are needed to protect that same health service. Hard to believe that people seem to excuse the (principally management) failings of our health service.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,121 ✭✭✭DarkJager21


    If it’s going to happen it’s going to happen, so what? They have the resources to manage it, stop worrying about it.



  • Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,685 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    They actually don't have the resources they need



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 5,427 ✭✭✭xhomelezz




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,121 ✭✭✭DarkJager21


    Better thinking than yours anyway, let me guess you want to jump in to a circuit breaker or some sort of restricted living to stop this yeah?



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 726 ✭✭✭SupplyandDemandZone


    I know of loads of people late 40's unvaccinated that caught it and they where fine.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 5,427 ✭✭✭xhomelezz




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,080 ✭✭✭✭vienne86


    Just heard a friend of mine got a walk in booster today in Citywest. They just checked age and date of second dose.



  • Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,685 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    See I don't know of many, maybe ten in the whole time this has been going on

    So it was a bit of a shock

    Don't get me wrong I'm passed at the current situation, passed at the complete cluster that is comms from the government and sick of NPHET and their inability to model, but hearing that 1 in the maybe 10 people I know in Ireland who got Covid died in their forties was sobering



  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 6,917 Mod ✭✭✭✭shesty


    Honestly, I stop reading and don't listen.To anything other than Lyric FM, and Spotify (I turn the volume down on the blasted covid ads they managed to get on there).

    I long ago accepted this is virus, it won't go away.I do what I can, but I won't stop my life.We are in a phase of our lives where pubs, nightclubs etc don't mean much for us, but they did when we were younger, so I have total sympathy with younger people and those business owners.We have a young family, I won't stop my kids living either.Won't ever ask it of them again, after the first round in 2020.

    As I said, I do what I can, but I cannot accept responsibility and give mental headspace to every warning, bad news headline, numbers increase and emotive comment about the state of the ICU.It's my responsibility to be responsible yeah, but it is also the responsibility of the Government/the HSE/NPHET (because they are basically all Dept of Health/HSE) to improve the system, and make it possible for people to work through all of this as best they can, and to be honest they haven't and they are still failing (availability of time for tests, turn around for results, nonsense about antigens, not enough ICUs and the rest).I will not accept responsibility for, or excuse, their failures.

    It wrecks my head at times and at those times, I know I have to withdraw and stop paying attention to it, for the good of my own mental health.We have a small family to get through this, and we need to be in the best headspace we can to do the best we can for them.I figure the waves will come and go, and all I can do is what I can do, and wait for them to pass.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,364 ✭✭✭I see sheep


    It's a hospital so people will be dying fairly regularly I'd imagine of many causes, whether they're vaccinated or not.

    Hope your parent gets well soon.

    "a terrible war imposed by the provisional IRA"

    Our West Brit Taoiseach



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 92,394 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,677 ✭✭✭Happydays2020


    They exceed capacity every winter. They have surge capacity (plus arrangements with the private hospitals) and will cut back on electives over the next few weeks.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 726 ✭✭✭SupplyandDemandZone


    Sure but you know well it's not 1 in 10 people in their 40's who die.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,216 ✭✭✭✭lawred2


    Hope your parent gets well soon

    How did your sibling manage to get hold of confidential patient data out of interest?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,235 ✭✭✭Pussyhands


    Does anyone know how soon after picking up covid an antigen test will show positive? I foolishly agreed to go to an indoor event Wednesday and will be going to my parents Friday and I'm worried about giving them something



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,363 ✭✭✭prunudo


    Thats one unlucky family, but a bit of perspective. The chances of double vaxxed and boostered yet too sick for icu are extremely slim. Even in normal times not a prospect the vast majority will ever face, let alone also throwing covid positive into the mix.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 511 ✭✭✭Psychedelic Hedgehog


    I didn't ask how, people talk to each other I guess. Wasn't the first thing on my mind TBH.

    Thank you for the kind thoughts.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 541 ✭✭✭agoodpunt


    UK have decided to live with covid opening in the summer was a good plan hope it works out for them



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,002 ✭✭✭celt262


    It will be coming near the time that all the people that caught it in the summer will be catching it again.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,266 ✭✭✭Juwwi


    Hello Supply And Demand how many roughly is loads out of curiosity ?

    I don't know that many that are unvaccinated , let alone late 40's specifically who caught this dammed virus and were all fine .

    Good positive news tho



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 550 ✭✭✭Sobit1964


    That actually doesn't happen. If you have any evidence that it does you might urgently share it with public health experts.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,746 ✭✭✭✭bucketybuck


    For myself, if any cause wants my engagement then there has to be a certain level of trust and respect.

    When I look at the NPHET governments actions this past 18 months I see a laundry list of mistakes, lies, bullshit, and gaslighting. More importantly, they have been incompetent on a grand scale, to the point where it can only be a parody when somebody calls these people the "experts".

    So why should I listen to them? Why should I believe them? Why would I be stupid enough to believe that this time they are correct, when they have been wrong at every step before? The current covid situation is exactly what I predicted would happen and I have the posts to prove that, that prediction was based on their incompetence and it proved accurate, so what exactly is supposed to be different in the months ahead?

    The social contract works both ways and Irish society has lost my respect to be quite honest, what I have seen this past 18 months is rotten to the core. So I am glad that young people are ignoring the fear narrative, it is about time frankly, they have been treated disgracefully by their elders and I hope they remember that in years to come.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 726 ✭✭✭SupplyandDemandZone


    Well they all caught covid well before the vaccines where on the scene so unvaccinated. All from my job bar one friend I grew up with. All had head colds and other symptoms to different degrees but none seriously sick. Despite what the media is telling people covid is a very mild illness unless you are old or have some sort of condition.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 550 ✭✭✭Sobit1964


    Im literally just finishing up the effects along with my wife. We are in our early 40s. Its basically the flu. All of the measures to stop the spread were garbage, it came home via our 11yos school. She was ill for about half a day. Our younger children also manifested a temperature but were fine.

    This said so far one distant family member who was double jabbed has died from it, and two more 40yo double jabbed have pneumonia issues now.

    I didnt bow to the pressure to take whats increasingly being revealed as a dodgy jab.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 102 ✭✭CutieD


    Unfortunately, an antigen test doesn't always show a positive. I know someone who had symptoms and used three antigen tests and they all showed negative. GP encouraged pcr and pcr came back positive.


    If you put yourself in a position of a possible exposure to covid, it might be best to take it easy for a week or so and limit your close contacts just to see if any symptoms develops or if anything shows up on an antigen test.


    Edit to add: if it was me I would pick and choose one between the two of them.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,990 ✭✭✭c.p.w.g.w


    Well if i had listened to my own GP a couple of years ago, i would a full blown T2 Diabetic...My bloods were trending upwards, but still within the "normal" range...But i was very much on the verge of being a T2 Diabetic, i had a copy of my results and used google and then went to another Dr for a second opinion...who immediately told me to get my blood sugar under control...

    So if i had just listened to my Dr i would be Diabetic without knowing it...As my brother who has had worrying symptoms for a year and whose Dr said he was bonderline, until his work medical said he was full blown T2 Diabetic, had done a different test involving insulin(which isn't readily available to ordinary folks here)...

    So in both examples we both would have had no underline conditions officially, yet actually have T2 Diabetes which is a risk factor



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


    Very hard to ignore if you have young kids who have to miss school or creche every few days because of a sniffle.


    Its relentless.



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


    Who and how are they getting this information?? Nolan does like to make things up as he goes along though




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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,821 ✭✭✭maebee


    My tuppence worth. I flew into Shannon airport today from Edinburgh on an almost full flight. There must have been at least 40 passengers who didn't have the Ireland Locator Form completed. The Garda at Passport Control let the 2 twenty somethings in front of me through and told them to "go over there and fill out the form online" and come back to me. They didn't bother as they were through and they just phoned their contact and said they were ready to be picked up. 🤔



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