Relaxation of Restrictions, Part XII *Read OP For Mod Warnings*

When will the Covid pass disappear for EU travel? That's the last real restriction.

I don't know its not really rational but I was never intent on starting a family flamewar. I didnt think I needed a booster either but took it for the same reason.

They probably wouldn't have freaked out last week but maybe 6 weeks ago they might have.

I guess its a wearing down of anxiety as they see other people going out and do stuff and they aren't dying either. I don't think its just the piece of paper thing but watching normalisation unfold and of course the piece of paper confirming the same. Its a bit of everything.

There is a strong possibility that his advice to take vitamin D saved more lives than lockdown in Ireland ;). He is a good, worth listening to from time to time.

No. There isn't. I, and most of the population haven't heard of him. He's a nobody.

I have no clue who he is now and didn't know who he was then. I'd imagine that goes for the vast majority of the population.

What would you suggest? Everyone knows that junk food is bad and fruit and vegetables are good. Like the face mask restriction, it should be down to personal choice.

Worldwide cases fell by 21% last week. It's been falling for three weeks and fully vaccinated rates are heading for 60%. Between that and the level of natural immunity Omicron has built up that means fewer and fewer places for this new variant to emerge.

It reminds me of them homeless people you see in the movies when they are scraping the bottom of the bins.

Luke O'Neill, clawing at mask wearing and anything else he can so he doesn't have to give up his media appearances.

An utter charlatan!

So antigen tests were a load of nonsense:

“The proportion of infectious people with SARS-CoV-2 missed by LFTs is substantial enough to be of clinical importance. The proportion missed varied between settings because of different viral load distributions and is likely to be highest in those without symptoms. Key models have substantially overestimated the sensitivity of LFTs compared with empirical data."

Less than 50% sensitivity. We should have known when the Brits went all in on them that they were useless.

I’m sure their proponents in here who argued we should have opened up on the basis of them will ignore this but hey ho.

That's certainly one view to take. The study was based on people without symptoms so it's not that surprising really. Even if they are 50% effective on asymptomatic (ie not sick) people it still catches enough to break the line of transmissions and help stop the spread. The other point in that study is they try to define 2hat is infectious. Best of luck with that one as nobody has a scooby-doo when an asymptomatic person is infectious or not.

The study falls into the bracket of "don't let perfectly get in the way of good"

But they AREN’T 50% effective for asymptomatic people, that’s the point. And even the rate of sensitivity for symptomatic people was over estimated.

It’s over now, vaccination and mutations have combined to get us across the finish line at a societal level, but the calls to open up before time on the basis of lateral flow testing was incorrect.

Mask wearing was mandatory , but wont be next week.

Most people are saying they have no problem yet calling them out on it ,

Want to wear one no problem, dont want to everWe see one again, no problem

I never berated anyone for not wearing one when they were mandatory and wont be doing it to anyone wearing one from next week

I dont know anyone,s circumstances or want to know. Do whatever you are comfortable with