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

The cases will very likely increase a lot, based on Denmark and the UK, but the rest on hospitals is more very loose and probably wrong guesswork. The problem here is that cases are the be all and end all for the government especially when they are linked to another projected health system collapse.

Yeah I've absolutely no doubt about the cases..but like you said..the assertions on hospitals and deaths is guessing. But the way they spoke last night with such authority that this is definitely going to happen yet they absolutely don't know would drive you mad.

The whole post is waffle but

That is right up there with one of the stupidest things I've read in a long time.

The ones who have suffered hardship are not the ones afraid of Covid.

Those petrified of covid and living in their attics reading books and doing video calls should not consider themselves brave.

An anecdotal story that is nothing short of unbelievable. There is 39 confirmed cases of omicron in Ireland.

Your friend had about a one in a million chance of becoming a confirmed omicron case on that day. Some people are really unlucky.

The Tánaiste is a bluffer alright who can't resist a microphone. A few weeks ago he wasn't questioning the models and playing down the problem, but now it's armageddon. Hard to know what to believe.

Pat Leady described their predictions as being "drunkenly inaccurate" in the IT but it's just not the time to be challenging them and the government needs to look like they know what they are doing, to the nation.

good chance by this evening. But no guarantees.

Good article by Daniel McConnell, says it as it is and how most of us are feeling.

At last journalists are questioning the decisions made by Goverment

Oh it’s surely obvious now to everyone that nothing is ever going to enough for the like of NPHET. It literally doesn’t matter what we do, it will never be enough. People surely do realise that now. We could have every man, woman and child vaccinated and it’s still won’t be enough. They’ve effectively turned an effective vaccine into the ultimate “snake oil” ironically.

Other countries look at it differently or to be more specific aim to live with this as much as possible. If they can open up fully then they will for as long as they can and if they need to impose more restrictions then they will, this is literally living with covid, this is NOT the view of NPHET when it comes to living with covid and won’t be until the power is stripped from them or we get someone to actually run the country.

Low case numbers and really low hospital and icu numbers is a concerning situation, high case numbers and high hospital and icu numbers is a concerning situation, it literally does not matter.

It’s a bit like being stuck at home with the kids on wet day and they are mad to play outside, so the minute it stops raining ye send them out, mitigate by giving them the wellies and the jacket.

When it comes to COVID that’s what other countries do, go out when the rain stops but take those few precautions. In Ireland we keep staring out the window cos the weatherman said it might rain again tomorrow!

Modelling used to justify Sajid Javid’s claim that there were 200,000 omicron infections a day has been abandoned by health officials.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/12/17/sajid-javids-200000-daily-omicron-cases-claim-no-longer-valid/

It’s a parable.

Case numbers will rise, that seems fairly certain. Even though these new restrictions are being put in place because of the expectation that case numbers will go up, I'd be fairly certain in 2-3 weeks time when they announce 9000 cases in a day you'll have NPHET and their cheerleaders in sections of the media calling for hospitality to shut entirely. January is going to be fúcking grim again.

And they've lost the dressing room, because the public can see through the waffle. You can't get a large proportion of the population to take a vaccination on the basis of reducing serious illness and then turn around and conclude the hospitals will be flooded with cases. Both can't be right.