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

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  • #40622
    JDxtra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,041 ✭✭✭JDxtra


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118496435#Comment_118496435

    They need to say we can drop most restrictions between this weekend and following 2 to 3 weeks. The useless Covid passes need to go sooner rather than later.

    For the most part, I do not hold the behaviour of FF/FG/Greens in high regard during the mid to latter part of this pandemic. No action from them will redeem the damage done, and they are not worthy recipients of my future votes.



  • #40623
    seamus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,190 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118495732#Comment_118495732

    Nearly forcing Mícheál's hand there.

    Ultimately once an end date is in sight for the COVID certs they'll become meaningless.

    If they announce at the start of March an end date of 31st, then virtually nobody will be arsed checking them.

    They might try to bring it all in together, make the St Patrick's festival a celebration of the end of most restrictions.

    I expected there'd be no parade this year, but it all seems to be going ahead so 🤷‍♂️



  • #40624
    blackcard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,325 ✭✭✭blackcard


    The ESRI survey last week was interesting. 69% of people agreed with the current levels of restrictions, 20% said there should be tougher restrictions, 11% said restrictions were too severe. I imagine the results would be different if a survey was carried out now. Still it seems that this thread was not in line with the general public's wishes then. "Let it rip" will get you 30 plus "Thanks",



  • #40625
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118497160#Comment_118497160

    It has ripped, its over.



  • #40626
    hotmail.com
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,373 ✭✭✭✭hotmail.com


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118497160#Comment_118497160

    The policy has been to let it rip the last few weeks.



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  • #40627
    shesty
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 6,917 Mod ✭✭✭✭shesty


    I don't know if it is policy exactly but it is certainly happening.



  • #40628
    shesty
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 6,917 Mod ✭✭✭✭shesty





  • #40629
    Apothic_Red
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 630 ✭✭✭Apothic_Red


    I just want the 6k who uploaded a positive antigen test today to know that I consider them nothing but grasses & traitors to the Irish State

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  • #40630
    Cluedo Monopoly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,437 ✭✭✭✭Cluedo Monopoly


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118496435#Comment_118496435

    It's starting to look a whole lot like the Spanish flu. Arrived in February 1918 and ended in April 1920 when it became a mild endemic virus.

    A part of me is a little disappointed that the Omicron numbers are reducing so rapidly. Omicron was providing huge numbers of natural immunity very fast. And I got it myself before anyone accuses me of wishing illness on others.

    What are they doing in the Hyacinth House?



  • #40631
    Ah_well.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 209 ✭✭Ah_well.


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118497160#Comment_118497160

    The Irish people need all restrictions to be dropped to show them that nothing terrible will happen when restrictions are abolished .The sky won't fall down . There appears to be a paralysis in this country with an unhealthy amount of the population so conditioned to restrictions that the thought of none incites high anxiety. This isn't January 2021 and most are treble vaccinated now. What exactly are people scared of now ? It's completely irrational . Serious post traumatic stress disorder with large swathes of our population by the looks of this polling .



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  • #40632
    Cluedo Monopoly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,437 ✭✭✭✭Cluedo Monopoly


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118497291#Comment_118497291

    There is a huge amount of Covid fear around still. Mostly irrational but it does exist. It will take time for people to adjust but I agree that we need to reclaim normality as soon as possible.

    What are they doing in the Hyacinth House?



  • #40633
    Deeper Blue
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,406 ✭✭✭Deeper Blue


    Scotland announced today that they're ending all restrictions so there's absolutely no reason why we shouldn't follow suit this week.

    Sure weren't we told when Sturgeon was increasing restrictions that we should follow Scotland's lead?



  • #40634
    Danye
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,264 ✭✭✭Danye


    After two years of what some might consider over zealous caution I actually find this narrative from the same government almost a bit weird!

    I’m not saying this is the case, but It’s as if they’re a bunch of teenagers and they’ve been caught out on a really bad lie, and they’re on a charm offensive to try to win you over before the full extent of the lie / mess is revealed.

    There will be some people getting thrown under the bus in the coming days, weeks and months if it hasn’t started already.



  • #40635
    ACitizenErased
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,751 ✭✭✭✭ACitizenErased


    906 in hospital as of 8pm, 93 in ICU.



  • #40636
    CruelSummer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,328 ✭✭✭CruelSummer


    Hmm Christine Loscher on Prime Time stating it’s ‘too early to say’ if Covid Certs can be dropped, this is not true in my opinion after the mass exposure of the population to Omicron.

    The media here are absolutely shocking and it should be investigated how it’s come to be that they’ve promoted citizens rights been taken indefinitely, why they are consistently taking this position and what they stand to gain from doing this.

    Meanwhile the U.K. will be mostly Covid cert free shortly.



  • #40637
    bikeman1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,461 ✭✭✭bikeman1


    Is there any reason why NPHET can’t meet tomorrow? Or is the act fast only important on the upward trend of the wave that they never stopped with their near pointless restrictions?

    They were meeting at the drop of a hat and doing pressers daily for months and months. Do they not realise that every extra day is a day wasted for people’s lives and livelihoods?

    We are spinning into our third year on this.

    Wait until you see the crumbs being given and people being happy.

    Midnight instead of normal closing times (like an hour or two difference). 200 at a wedding? Why? There will be some other pointless measures in place all to be seeing to be doing the right thing but achieving SFA in slowing any spread of this.



  • #40638
    KrustyUCC
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,077 ✭✭✭KrustyUCC


    Paul Cunningham on RTE news has government trying to play down expectation as we can't be sure of anything until NPHET meet Thursday



  • #40639
    WillContribute
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34 ✭WillContribute


    Media counting the antigens in the total test results?

    Not really misleading. Antigen is not ideal testing yes, but it would be more misleading to not include official antigen results in the total figures

    The HSE to free up capacity, has limited PCR tests to 40+ year olds. OK. Needed in the circumstances.

    The people under 40 who were being captured in PCR before, and are recorded in all the previous stats, are still getting Covid, but now can't be PCR tested and they haven't just disappeared.

    Adding in the official uploaded antigen results captures some of these. These are those who bothered to upload their result or needed it for work/SW etc.

    Numbers are going down, which is great, and hopefully some normality soon, but you can't just exclude half the population from the testing and then report dramatically improved figures, without some balance.



  • #40640
    blowitupref
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,134 ✭✭✭blowitupref


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118497345#Comment_118497345

    997 in hospital at 8pm last Tuesday at 8pm.



  • #40641
    mohawk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,787 ✭✭✭mohawk


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118497160#Comment_118497160

    Those are mad stats especially given how rampant Covid was last couple weeks. Surely everyone knows multiple people that caught it in December. I think all the 11% live near me because there is little support for many of the measures amongst people I meet. 8pm rule is disregarded by the pubs, only time the Covid cert gets checked is if I go to a bigger town, there are shops you can go into without a mask and no one would care.

    Do some of the people afraid of Covid feel like rest of us should be too? Do they expect us all to stop doing things we enjoy because they are afraid. Life is for living.



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  • #40642
    Apothic_Red
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 630 ✭✭✭Apothic_Red


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118497345#Comment_118497345

    Is that nearly 100 in less than 24 hours.

    Did a hospital burn down or something



  • #40643
    podgeandrodge
    Site Banned Posts: 5,975 ✭✭✭podgeandrodge


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118497330#Comment_118497330

    "All Omicron restrictions in Scotland to be lifted next Monday".


    Ireland. "Let's just see a bit longer lads. Hey, maybe let's say midnight for pubs, until later in February. The science clearly shows that half hour will make a difference. Those 12.30am closing times weren't socially responsible anyway. What's another couple of weeks to those businesses anyway." etc. etc. etc.


    To date there has not been a single defence to say that they even believe the 8pm hospitality on restaurants and pubs made a difference. Those of us on the ground (i.e. in the pubs!) saw that it did. It crammed us all in between 6pm and 8pm rather than spacing us out a bit 😁



  • #40644
    podgeandrodge
    Site Banned Posts: 5,975 ✭✭✭podgeandrodge


    Bad news: "The World Health Organization on Tuesday said the pandemic will not end as the omicron variant subsides in some countries, warning the high levels of infection around the world will likely lead to new variants as the virus mutates.“We’re hearing a lot of people suggest that omicron is the last variant, that it’s over after this. And that is not the case because this virus is circulating at a very intense level around the world,” Maria Van Kerkhove, the WHO’s Covid-19 technical lead, said during a coronavirus update in Geneva.Van Kerkhove said now is not the time to relax public health measures, such as curtailing mask wearing and physical distancing. She called on governments to strengthen those measures to bring the virus under better control and head off future waves of infection as new variants emerge.“If we don’t do this now, we will move on to the next crisis,” Van Kerkhove said. “And we need to end the crisis that we are currently in and we can do that at the present time. So don’t abandon the science. Don’t abandon the strategies that are working, that are keeping us and our loved ones safe,” she said."


    Still, she also said "#COVID19 is not airborne, #COVID19 spreads via droplet & contact transmission" in early 2020, so there's hope she's wrong on this one too 😀

    https://twitter.com/mvankerkhove/status/1241830233101275137?lang=en



  • #40645
    Quantum Erasure
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,633 ✭✭✭Quantum Erasure


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118497648#Comment_118497648

    wasn't there some talk about looking at legislation to extend pub / club opening times well past what they had been before the pandemic? what ever happened that?

    Edit

    Ms McEntee said the move is not just intended to give people an “extra hour in the pub”, but it will ensure a greater cultural offering when Covid-19 restrictions on the hospitality sector lifts. The extended hours would not only benefit Irish residents but also tourists when they eventually return to the country, she Morning Ireland.

    Ms McEntee warned the alterations will take time as they are part of a large piece of legislation. 

    https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/extending-late-trading-hours-will-benefit-pubs-and-clubs-association-says-1.4491610



  • #40646
    Vaccinated30
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 389 ✭✭Vaccinated30


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118497721#Comment_118497721

    We have 95% vaxxed and a huge amount of natural immunity. She's not talking about us.



  • #40647
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118496108#Comment_118496108

    The boards brains trust told us less than a week ago that there was no way the cabinet could meet for at least two weeks. Surely they can have been wrong?



  • #40648
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118497217#Comment_118497217

    Maybe they were people who wanted their social welfare payment while off work?



  • #40649
    hynesie08
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,252 ✭✭✭✭hynesie08


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118498048#Comment_118498048

    They think March is in summer, dates aren't their strongest point.



  • #40650
    patnor1011
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,301 ✭✭✭patnor1011


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118497160#Comment_118497160

    Polls and surveys lol.

    That restriction survey would most likely be the same "quality" as those about brexit or first woman president.



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  • #40651
    User1998
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,995 ✭✭✭User1998


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118498052#Comment_118498052

    All I done was order antigen tests and got the illness benefit, didn’t upload any results. Not sure if its still this easy



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