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

That is the oddest lie ever told.

When places were open until midnight I wasn't posting in this forum at all because I was out every night.

Pro-restrictions posters have literally said that the 8pm curfew makes no difference to them (and try to make out it makes no difference to anyone)

Yet according to you it is the posters who against restrictions most passionately who will be most sorry to see the 8pm curfew go. Yeah sure.

Good post. Thankfully the vast majority of Irish people showed their mental fortitude over the last two years, followed the guidance and got on with their lives as best they could. A smaller portion of the population showed that they were completely mentally unequiped to deal with an existential threat like a disruptive global pandemic and employed classic textbook coping mechanisms like convincing themselves there was no threat, and reinforcing this delusion by seeking out conspiracy theories and falsehoods, and mocking those who showed actual resilience in dealing with a global pandemic. I only hope that they will one day recognise this and may be better prepared to deal with the next threat like a mature adult.

It won't happen because that's not how it works. We all have much stronger immunity than we did in 2019 so how can a variant of the thing we have stronger immunity to bypass our immunity completely out of nowhere?

Sweden sure paid for their lack of lockdowns 🙄

Last summers lockdown wasn’t necessary. It was meretricious to the group think on boards

It couldn’t be any clearer in black and white on the HSE site

Restricted movements

Your child needs to restrict movements (stay at home) for 7 days.

They should do this from when they were last in contact with the person who tested positive. If you do not know when this was, do this from when you get the close contact text message from the HSE.

My reading of numbers says it is 58%, not 30%.

I am happy to be proven wrong, and almost feel it must be wrong because that is such a huge difference that I cannot see how people are not more vocal about it.

907 in hospital this evening. That means there were 116 more people discharged than admitted between 8am and 8pm today.

Great to see. Should also hopefully keep us below 1100 come Monday morning.

The real drops will likely come next week now.

Presumably they are in hospital for some other medical reason.

I suppose they should say "Covid symptoms". If I'm in the hospital, my leg is broken, and I test covid positive but don't have symptoms, I don't think I'm feeling great. Not the best article.

Also in that article in the Independent of the 453 Covid positive patients reviewed, 67 were unvaccinated. Just under half of all those currently in hospital positive for Covid were included in the review.

27 of the 322 not needing Oxygen and 42 of the 130 needing Oxygen were unvaccinated. Still disproportionate as expected but not at levels justifying the level of scorn and blame aimed at the unvaccinated. From those figures - estimate 15% unvaccinated.

Yes Omicron has changed things, but the burden the unvaccinated supposedly have on hospitalisations isn’t holding up. This message should be communicated and passes discontinued.

*Just as an observation of the discrepancies in 30%/58% if a patient has no symptoms on admission, they may develop them and need some treatment. The important data is treated for symptoms vs not - I gather the percentage not needing treatment is 30%.

So which child 0-12 can break contact from a parent then ? Then the HSE say children 0-12 household close contact isolate for 7 days . No mention of what you mention above

No 1 year old obviously can isolate from a parent so who are the actually talking about then . ?

It makes no sense what you are being told as no under 12 can isolate from a parent basically

Personally I would be sticking to the HSE guidlines on the official HSE site

i remember a poster here telling that someone on the HSE phone line told her to isolate her 3 year old in a room

She told him she would report him to Tusla !!