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

You are better off. We all tested positive. Wife 4 days later than rest of us with no mitigation measures. Very minor symptoms. Glad to be done and dusted. 8 days positive on antigen with no symptoms for 3 of us. Wife had pains and headache for 2 days.

Antigens are a good idea of your viral load. Found them bang on 100%. The higher your viral load the quicker and darker the T line appears. Also no need to go up to your brain for a sample. Any bit of snot gives a spot on result.

Also both vaxxed and unvaxxed mates have an exact same antigen positive time of 8-9 days

I see Hong Kong have vowed that they won’t be living with covid. I feel sorry for those people.

I've never seen this thread so quiet!

Here's a fairly comprehensive study pre-vaccine rollout on the effectiveness of masks at reducing R (there's lots of others):

Now, you're question of whether they're worth the cost is interesting, we've seen the countries with lower infection rates and death rates generally have fared better economically than those that didn't, Ireland had some of the harshest lockdowns yet our economy is in rude health compared to others.

Now, the starting point of this is that the lockdowns and restrictions were an effective way for countries to manage themselves through a pandemic and will be likely to repeat such actions were another pandemic to occur (though favouring restrictions due to medical advances).

If you oppose any and all restrictions, then none of this will make a difference to your thought except the knowledge that pretty much every functioning country on both sides of the political spectrum followed these measures including the mask wearing. Medical studies support the actions, science support the actions, it doesn't leave a very credible place to go to claim otherwise (but lots of shouting and fist slamming).

And on the rubbish aspect, are face masks, increasing in any meaningful way the amount of waste produced by a person? Probably not, you'd need to be throwing away a lot of masks to have any substantial effect either in weight or in volume. Are they more visible? Yes, because of where people discard of them, the type who will leave a mask on the street will likely be throwing other rubbish on the street as well.

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/health/long-covid-a-lot-of-people-are-suffering-in-silence-unable-to-return-to-full-capacity-1.4799748

Physios making a landgrab for "long Covid", the orthodontists must be kicking themselves for not getting in there faster ;-) 

Does anyone know what the story is with bringing kids to the test centers, both me and my daughter tested positive on antigens yesterday, she has no symptoms, I have very mild ones, I'm over 40 so gonna get a PCR, it's just me and her isolating together, no one else in the house so I will have to bring her to the test center, I'm presuming there's no issue with that.

If it's a drive through you'll have no problem. If it's a walk in centre, she'll probably have to wait in the car.

Judging by how quiet they are at the moment, you'll probably be in and out in 5-10 minutes.

Bring her with you . Explain she cant be left alone

i have seen people with buggies in the queue

Last time I was in Citywest (which was last year to be fair), they had a drive-through that they were using for people with children and limited mobility. As above, let us know what part of the country you're in and someone with local knowledge might know where has a drive-through.

I'm in dublin, so can go anywhere in Dublin, had a look at the hse sight were you book tests, doesnt say which ones are drive through or not, Citywest doesn't seem to be in use anymore either