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

A lockdown for February and March, potentially April would set us up very nicely for the summer.

It'd be hard for it to be a 'fulltime' Job when realistically overstaying would occur in a 3 to 4 hour window.

What a load of crap tweet!!! I currently have covid and thankfully am well on the mend. But if god forbid I went out and slipped and fell and broke something I'd be classed as a covid admission!!! This whole thing is a farce!!!! Load of nonsense! It's this type of nonsense that has older people afraid. Why can't they just use the word x amount in hospital from covid not with covid!!!!

interesting graph- my attention is drawn to the age profiles, it glaringly obvious that vaccination is working really well for older people, great protection. But looking at teenagers the cases are low regardless of vaccination and it doesn’t cover the kids who became eligible yesterday (5-11)

if vaccination/boosters are working for older age groups I can’t see the urgency to vaccinate 5-11 yr olds unless they have health issues.

Ah I know, it's just a very misleading tweet.

Like the sentences independently are true but they lead you to believe that none of the 984 in hospital have mild covid, which we know is false thanks to himself the other day.

Don't worry, when hospitals tip over 1000 tomorrow we'll know all about it.....

Ah look...I still haven't listened to the Rogan interview or any Rogan interview for that matter. I may do so later. My only point is that nobody should be silenced or gagged. Social media do enough damage without deciding the boundaries of debate. The doctors in question could be talking absolute rubbish but let them do it as per their rights to free speech and let others correct them.

I only have the 6/7 Saorview channels so the whole Trump thing passed me by. I had little interest regardless. But I thought it was very wrong when Trump was taken off Twitter (and I don't use Twitter or Facebook). I cant even remember why he was taken off Twitter but I will always defend free speech no matter how much nonsense or misinformation people want to spread. Let them spread it and let other people expose their idiocy. I love Boards but I know it's full of misinformation, spoof, nonsense etc but I have never ever put someone on my 'Ignore List' - I could never do it. Boards also provides excellent debate and fact corrections.

I am also one of those people that question and doubt things especially when vested interests are making massive fortunes. I am fascinated by history too. It always worries me when debate is controlled. Will be be burning Rogan/Doctor books next? I questioned how Haughey could afford boats, islands and Charvet shirts. I questioned how Bertie had no bank account and won his money on race horses. Would/Should they have been gagged? If poor P Flynn was silenced, we would have missed that brilliant Late Late interview! I have no time for Gerry Adams but it was crazy when he was banned from TV and Radio for 6 years. Insane - it just delayed peace. Anyway I have gone off topic.

I am always nervous of people who dont have an open mind and who particularly are unquestioning. It is a terrible trait to be unquestioning.

I guess I am trying to understand the new policy - anyone that promotes vaccine doubts is to be taken off social media? Is that it?

It's Day 3 of Omicron for me - the verbal diarrhoea stage? 😂

Will definitely be over 1,000 tomorrow. And you'll have some of the usual heads wailing about schools and demanding a lockdown. Then when hospital numbers drop back down again next week, they'll just ignore that and keep claiming that COVID is out of control.

The value of a model when you use good inputs and don't change anything. At the time the models were made, we knew quite a bit about infectiousness, so the models have lander pretty well there.

Virulence was less clear at the time. There was some indication that things would be really good, but I don't think anyone was confident enough to bank on it. So all of NPHETs models are pessimistic in that regard.

It turns out that Omicron is exactly as mild as we had hoped. Which means NPHETs models will fall short, but in the best way possible.

I am relatively young and don’t have the booster and it’s didn’t affect me whatsoever. For every young person who gets a dose of it with a temperature etc, there’s thousands of others who it doesn’t affect at all.

Not anti vax at all, I’ve two doses got but if I can avoid getting the booster I will. Unless in coerced into by the gov which is likely.

Very interesting article. I am surprised the narrative has changed so quickly. I thought it would be later this month.

We could end most of the staffing pressure on the health service and schools tomorrow if the will was there.

I'd expect the 8pm figure to be over 1000 tonight and few in the media will mention from a fraction of the weekly case loads we had 1352 in hospital on January 9th last year.

I'd have sky news on the in background in the kitchen.. I don't really remember too many reports with such a tenor!

Brilliant post!!!