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

Denmark does 50% of the EU total sequencing yet has 1.1% of the total population. Amazing eh ?

I have to admit this Omicron is a real worry. It seems inevitable there are going to be huge case numbers coming in the near future. By sheer weight of numbers it will surely cause big problems even if it is a weaker strain ?

COVID makes it worse. We don't have enough trolleys to play with.

The case numbers could be expected to hit 15k a day based on the 3x multiplier plus more socialisation in a system that has 30k testing capacity.

The Helen Lovejoys on FB will guarantee schools will not open post Christmas.

Contact tracing will have broken down, advice will be for the vulnerable to cocoon. This will rip through the whole population in no more than 6-8 weeks. 2 years to the day Leo put us into Lockdown it will be all over.

So with 30K / day testing capacity and 1,500 / week sequencing capacity how is anyone to have a clue what is actually going on with Omnicron in the community ?

Got the booster yesterday, wiped out since last night. Heading to bed again now.

Moderna booster here, got it Thursday, very sore arm yesterday morning but was wiped out all yesterday afternoon and this morning. Just a bit fuzzy now.

I've switched out a bit ...

When last I heard, this variant was not really causing severe illness. Has this changed? Why are you of this opinion? Thanks.

Before Covid.

2019 breaks record for most patients on trolleys – and it’s not even December (inmo.ie)

2019 has seen the highest number of patients on trolleys in any year since records began – despite it still being November.

The union has invoked health and safety laws for staff, writing to the Health and Safety Authority and HIQA, seeking their intervention.

“Winter has only just begun and the record is already broken. These statistics are the hallmark of a wildly bureaucratic health service, which is failing staff and patients alike.

“We take no pleasure in having to record these figures for a decade and a half. We know the problem, but we also know the solutions: extra beds in hospitals, safe staffing levels, and more step-down and community care outside of the hospital.

“Five years ago, hospitals like Beaumont consistently faced the most extreme overcrowding problems in the country. They reduced that problem by adding beds and growing community care. Other services can do the same and must be allowed to do so.

“No other developed country faces anything close to this trolley problem. It can be solved, but a strong political agenda to drive change is needed.

“The INMO has written to the health and safety authorities this week to try force a change from the employers. Hospitals should be a place of safety and care – not danger.”

Cabinet secretly briefed on massive job losses

““There is a moment of reckoning ahead of us,” one cabinet minister warned this weekend.”

This has been on the cards from the start when the hospitality sector / gyms / entertainment sector were repeatedly singled out as the cause of Covid spread.

The excuse being peddled out that they’d to prioritise certain areas to reopen over others bears no fruit when nearly all of the adult population got vaccinated and many are now boosted. Gyms help people maintain healthy lifestyles and improve people’s health. There are tweets of empty restaurants with no customers on Friday night in December - when they should be busy.

People need to make a choice - these businesses are there for us to use & socialise. Do people support government and NPHET policy of closing them early for December? Do people support discrimination in gyms and hotels? Do people support these businesses being let die in 2021 as a direct result of NPHET and Government policy?

There are economic storm clouds coming - inflation is high as predicted. Monopoly money is being handed out indebting Ireland to the orders and wishes of international financiers in order to prevent social unrest while they implement these policy’s. The representation groups are taking their handouts and staying quiet for now…for how long.

One positive piece of news those in charge of Western Democracies aren’t highlighting is how mild Omicron is:

It was 481 yesterday in hospital but ICU down OK.

So hospital numbers and cases continue to fall, and all reports on Omicron consistently positive.

So we can expect Michael Martin to address the nation and remove restrictions any day now, no?