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

Fair enough.

Any type of authoritarianism then ,is unlikely in that very balanced parliament.

My antigen test experience. Last Thursday had my pcr for my trip to the states on Saturday . Passed and off i go.

I brought a few antigen tests with me. Come Monday i thought i’d try one for the craic. Low and behold “ oh f**k!” A second faint line. According to the instructions I’m positive. So i take a second one, oh double f****k same result. No symptoms whatsoever.

So after a restless night i got hold of 2 more tests. Different antigen brand by Abbotts. First test negative. Did another test the following morning and same result negative.

Today i took a PCR and low and behold negative.

interesting…..

My advice is if you’re traveling do the more accurate PCR test.

Over 2 weeks since positive covid pcr test (mild headcold like symptoms for 3-4 days around the time of test).

Is there a test available that will tell you if you can still pass it on to someone else? Is that what a lateral flow test does?

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Official RTE Twitter account putting out bullsh"t. There's a surprise

I want to believe what she says but she’s a hung ho mask everyone, zero covid loon! Looks like hysterical ranting to me and trying to frighten people

We've been stable at 4k case numbers for a while now. Hospital numbers are falling albeit slowly the last few weeks. Bar tinkering with opening hours, society is pretty much mixing and interacting as normal. We are now in winter, a season known for sickness and illness.

Begs a question, what sort of numbers did nphet expect when they decided to push opening on 22nd Oct. Cases were always going to rise, but so what, large cases don't matter anymore.

In saying that, peel back the info, everything that has being leaked is still tinkering at the edges, and will do nothing to cases. 4 households for Christmas dinner is still a sizeable group.

They've lost prospective, with so many vaccinated this virus is not serious for the vast vast majority. Certainly not proportionally to the damage its doing to society.

Why weren't you at home "following the measures"?

So.. on a scale of 0 to 10, how happy are you with your antigen test experience?

Sounds like there is some difference in quality, at least.

The closest you'll get to that is a PCR, in terms of negative=safe, but you won't get a HSE PCR for that reason.

Otherwise the usual advice is 10 days after symptom onset.

For many people socialising with friends and particularly the tradition of emigrants coming home at Christmas and meeting up with friends is very important. Not just an Irish thing and does not necessarily mean lots of pints.

Hi Goldengirl, what is misinformation in the post? Can you also show me where hospitals are ‘extremely busy’ with Covid 19? I see busy hospitals but not with Covid. Hospitalisations and ICU figures are not high relative to the population of Ireland, we’ve just a crap health service they think they can scream at us about for the Winter, not good enough,

If you want to stick up for a poster who wanted children of the ‘unvaccinated’ excluded from school and now wants to discuss mandatory vaccination, which will also mean mandatory never ending boosters - off with you. I don’t have any time for someone who appears to be the wolf in sheep’s clothing pretending to justify their horrendous proposals with excuses like ‘it’s a pandemic and there’s no other choice’.

We do not have debt cancelled. We do refinance existing debt and we take on new debt all of which needs to be serviced.

On the cost of servicing debt, you are right that the NTMA are excellent but they can only be as good as the economic conditions they operate in. The EU, IMF, IFAC and the Department of Finance have expressed concerns about the sustainability of continued high level of borrowing, increased current spending and critically reliance on corporate tax revenues. We have had tail winds over the last 6/7 years with low interest rates, ECB government bond buying, quantitative easing, low inflation, record tax revenues and so forth and we know through history that these things will shift and already are doing so.

The problem, in my opinion, is that a mindset has crept in that we can continue to shut down sectors of the economy and that there is a tap of money there to support this policy not to mention the long term implications of making our economy and society less connected. I also know the damage that out of control Covid can do but this mindset is and should be worrying.

NHPET seemingly have recommended restricting hospitality hours even more,Has there been any leaks as to what time they want these establishments to close? One poster here yesterday was suggesting 8pm while I see 10pm floating around twitter last night

Yea i guess NPHET will recommend 8 or 9 and cabinet will add an hour.

My guess would be 1030pm closures to put the nail in the nightclub trade.