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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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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 91,859 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


    21,000 new cases

    No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change this World



  • Posts: 14,768 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I think anyone who reuses the same mask for weeks, and keeps it in their pocket in between isn’t getting a lot of protection, but is gross.

    Hospitals have not been the source of spread, the people in hospital have. At this stage, even the most dense must understand that the greater the number of infections, the greater the risk of increased admissions. That isn’t speculation, it is simple statistics.

    Again, I am not advocating restrictions, I don’t want a return to mask mandates or forced closures of businesses, but c’mon, there is no excuse for not understanding the benefits of wearing a mask or the implications of rising rates of transmission.

    AD, if you are going to wear a mask, maybe wear one that isn’t a weeks old, reused Petri dish.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,083 ✭✭✭Theboinkmaster


    sure who cares? First time on this thread for 2 months - just curious was it still active!

    I've literally stopped reading everything about COVID the past 2 months and it's been great, despite alot of people around me with it. Has it myself a moth ago.

    With energy and food inflation ahead of us we all have a lot more to worry about.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,574 ✭✭✭✭namloc1980


    Ukraine distracted everyone for a while but it seems the media and other talking heads are turning back to the old reliable Covid once again. The clamour for restrictions from the unions etc. is so utterly predicable.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,878 ✭✭✭robbiezero


    Send those customers to Beechwoodspark where their idiocy and hypochondria will meet a hearty welcome and a like mind.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 3,614 ✭✭✭Azatadine


    We were due to get rid of them on Monday 28th. That plan was scrapped today - mask mandate remaining in place.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,604 ✭✭✭Amadan Dubh


    Again though, what is the link to my own mask wearing and COVID overwhelming the hospitals when it is being spread in the hospital environment?

    I am not infected with COVID so therefore what difference would it make to the COVID issue if I wear a mask?

    It's important to remember that a COVID infected person is at risk of spreading COVID, not a maskless person.



  • Posts: 895 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Said it yesterday, unless there’s a big price rise in something, or something escalates further in Ukraine, Covid is the story for the foreseeable.

    Petrol and diesel, and electricity bills, will need to go up a good bit literally over night to take the attention back. Over €2 would probably do it if it happened quickly.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 126 ✭✭zisdead


    Hey guys anybody know if there is another very active virus going around. Myself and two friends out watching Liverpool Arsenal games last wednesday.

    All 3 of us not feeling great on Friday. Right we have covid no biggie we will deal with it. BUT Not one of us has failed an antigen test ??

    My symptoms. Friday (first day) Tired and that kinda mhh I might be getting sick thing. Saturday very tired and by that night a temperature that meant I could not sleep properly with aches all the way through into afternoon Sunday. (but by no means a bad fever) Now the cough comes and the more I get better from the "infection" in terms of tiredness and fever it has been replaced by a cough that has moved from mild and dry to absolute chronic and bringing **** up of my lungs today. Wondering how the hell can I pick up something other than BA2 which apparently is about if not more contagious than measles? And if it isnt covid anybody know what it is?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,484 ✭✭✭bikeman1


    Yes it’s still the peak flu / virus season. Plenty of crap being circulated around that is not Covid. Also, many people’s natural immunity is not as good as it was before due to living a sheltered life for two years.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,455 ✭✭✭Cork2021


    We’ll all I can say is Holahan has done the right thing!




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,455 ✭✭✭Cork2021


    can anyone at all tell me who this whinge bag is?? She’s all over twitter banging the restrictions drum the last while!




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,333 ✭✭✭✭Jim_Hodge


    Twitter's full of nut jobs. Stop reading them and pasting their tripe elsewhere.



  • Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 14,292 Mod ✭✭✭✭pc7


    I didn’t get a positive antigen until 5 days after a positive pcr, was hacking my lungs up. Then I kept getting positive antigens for days after when I was no longer coughing! Go figure. Just did the antigens as an experiment. It’s mad. Other doses going around now too.



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


    Heading to USA in April - anyone know which is easiest route to an antigen test these days? Used Boots a few months ago, but regardless of which store I pick I am getting "no appointments available", perhaps they have stopped.


    Edit: Found https://gosafe48.ie/ for €29 seems good. If anyone has bad experiences with these please let me know.

    Post edited by podgeandrodge on


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,333 ✭✭✭✭Jim_Hodge


    Antigens induce an immune response in the body, especially the production of antibodies. This can take some time to show in a test. Hence why we used PCR testing.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 455 ✭✭KieferFan69


    What was the point of the vaccines really. Everyone I know that is vaccinated still got infected and many became very sick while myself and the others I know who are unvaccinated either had mild symptoms or remain uninfected. The discriminatory laws and sh*t-stirring newspaper articles were madness.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,333 ✭✭✭✭Jim_Hodge


    Funny, my experience was the opposite. Those vaccinated had much milder symptoms than those unvaccinated or not fully vaccinated.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 827 ✭✭✭HalfAndHalf


    I was over in London last week for work. Friday started to get a scratchy throat, took my standard morning and evening pre-flight antigen and all clear.

    Saturday felt a bit rough, tired but had been out for pints 3 out of 4 nights. Bit of a fever and a cough. Sunday, Monday, Tuesday bunged up one minute, producing industrial levels of snot the next. Cough went from throaty to chesty and chest pains when coughing. Bit achy all over.

    Today I’m on the mend and generally OK.

    Am after doing 7 tests and all negative.

    Moral of the story, I’ve a cold (remember them) The problem is we’ve all been wearing masks for 2 years and avoiding all germs. Our immune systems are in a coma to normal cold virus and haven’t a clue what to do and got blasted with 3 vaccines!

    Can see this being the case for a while!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 455 ✭✭KieferFan69


    That is fine it’s not a competition. I just don’t see what the big push was for these pharmaceutics

    whole thing strikes me as odd now



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,333 ✭✭✭✭Jim_Hodge


    Nobody's making a competition of it but the evidence in ICU seems to speak of the value of the vaccines. You obviously have issues with it but the facts seem to stack up.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 455 ✭✭KieferFan69


    You have me wrong I’ve no issue with it, just asking the question, how we could enact dubious laws and change society when everyone got the illness anyway regardless of being vaccinated, and usually they suffered the worse



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 553 ✭✭✭ddarcy


    Get a list of local pharmacies. I did and about a week before make an appointment. The go a week before and make an appointment. Could do it now too I guess, not all have online booking. The one I used didn’t.





  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,333 ✭✭✭✭Jim_Hodge


    usually they suffered the worse

    There you go again. The facts don't support that.

    I'm not wasting my time in this pointless back and forth but you obviously do have an issue with it - so be it.



  • Posts: 895 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I’d agree with stop reading the hysterics over there, but anyway..

    Retired primary school principal (not an actual doctor despite the title). Left her job during the pandemic, has now gone off the ISAG we could be zero etc deep end. Seems to spend her days arguing for restrictions, bizarrely the examiner did a piece with her a few months back. Argued for continued school closures on at least 3 occasions, continued social isolation and masking of children. Also bizarrely, one of our union splinter group pages (voice for teachers, had her chairing a webinar on how to keep safe from Covid back in January with Gerry Killeen- lol).

    Wouldn’t waste your breath or time tbh. Loads of hot air and using an inflated title to try influence.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,604 ✭✭✭Amadan Dubh


    Don't you realise that symptoms would've been much worse for those vaccinated if they hadn't taken their vaccine, that was the whole point of them.

    In reality, anyone under 50 had little chance of needing to go to hospital anyway so didn't need to take a vaccine let alone a booster. But the vaccines did work for the elderly and other vulnerable groups.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 455 ✭✭KieferFan69


    Maybe fir the vulnerable but I’ve witnessed zero consistency in terms of milder effects from vaccines, and every single person I know who got the vaccines got Covid afterwards. As I say, the laws around it were patent madness, although I do have some level of respect fir Taoiseach Martin as he didn’t totally lose the run if himself like those in Australia and New Zealand



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,232 ✭✭✭waterwelly


    Whatever about vaccines, in lower age groups like children I am dubious about the need for them



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,037 ✭✭✭growleaves


    23rd of March, 10.25pm

    This time two years ago exactly headed into lockdown....



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 11,798 ✭✭✭✭Cluedo Monopoly


    I am surprised people are still getting tested. Are they PCR tests or Antigens?

    What are they doing in the Hyacinth House?



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