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

Yup, here's a link to the article for anyone who's interested

You hear a lot of bizarre things here. Purely for entertainment though, not taken seriously by anyone with a modicum of intelligence.

487 in hospital this morning. Down by 200 in just 12 days, and humourously 13 days after Nolan posted his models predicting 1,100 in hospital by now.

Lowest in 4 weeks.

Obviously we can't expect it to drop forever, but I also see no reason for it to not keep dropping in the short term. We have high cases, but the majority of cases are in very low risk populations. Case numbers have collapsed in high risk populations due to the booster programme and this will only keep improving into Jan/Feb.

So fingers crossed we're back here next Saturday with less than 400 in hospital.

Clearly yes you can have high case numbers and live with Covid.

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Separately there's been a report of a super spreader omicron event in Norway. 2 infected people went to a party of 120 and 80%+ tested positive after. Still being sequenced, but seems unlikely to be coincidence.

The good news is there are no hospitalisations reported from the outbreak, though some of the panickers are saying that it's too soon, you need to wait weeks to see if anyone goes to hospital. Which is not the case.

Anecdotes are not evidence but the more we hear that hospitals are virtually free of vaccinated people with omicron, the more likely it is that it's true.

Alle **** luia

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the main point that should be noted now is with what happened last christmas martin hasnt the balls to take on nphet they are the master of these muppets

this is old hat but rte is more dangerous than the new variant

'Compliant populace'

Jesus Christ

Literally third paragraph

“The WHO has warned it could take weeks to determine how infectious the variant is, whether it causes more severe illness and how effective treatments and vaccines are against it.”

way too early to know for certain how severe this is.

It's absolutely bonkers to see you now making this point to support your argument.

Anyone who suggested this pre vaccine was labelled callous

That implies living with restrictions indefinitely. Is that what you want (Covid isn't going away)

Alternatively what is your timeline for it going through the population slowly. We're two years in now, it's not going to get much better than 93% vaccinated

Would you have any sort of evidence that community mitigation measures prevented the above?

About half of deaths in Ireland occurred in nursing homes (as far as I know). Not sure how community mitigation saved any lives there.

Also Indias official death toll is 400k, anything that's suggests otherwise must be considered a conspiracy theory