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

Unboosted people need a negative test or recovery cert for countries that are still asking for the DCC. I went for a PCR solely for this reason.

Yeah having to get a negative test a day before is hassle imo.

So thats the main reason for a recovery cert use now? To avoid the antigen before the flight? Surely this doesnt apply to the US as only vaccinated folk can travel there now?

Think the prize of unions dictating to the public goes to .....yes , it's the teachers !

We also have to be wary of attributing things to covid which have always existed, but have just come into sharp focus over the last two years. The public have never really known at any stage how many people are in hospital or ICU for any given illness. Yes, we've had the background noise of trolley numbers and such, but we've never had a winter bed watch in the media telling us how many people are in hospital with severe 'flu every day.

Peoples' response to illness sits on a bell curve. The majority of people respond mostly appropriately, if a little slowly to the severity of an illness. At one narrow end of the bell curve you have people who turn up to the A&E because they stubbed a toe and it's really sore, or because they started coughing and they woke up and are terrified that it's covid and they're going to die.

But for every one of those people, you have another one on the opposite side of the bell curve who would lose a finger and then go to bed to try and "sleep it off" instead of going to hospital.

We know that the number of incidental covid cases in hospital is about 50%, but outside of that it would be a mistake to assume many of the rest are "overreacting". Certainly no more than normal anyway. On the whole, hospital is a lot of hassle and quite scary. People generally don't go unless they're genuinely scared for themselves; in this case having trouble breathing or so badly fatigued that they can barely move.

The cheek of Paul Reid out tweeting about how we need to all 'do more' to turn the tide of Covid, what are the HSE doing to stop spread in the hospitals among vulnerable patients? An older family member of mine who is negative for Covid on multiple tests, PCR and Antigen had to go to A&E last night, they were sent straight to the 'Covid room' - where one things for sure. They'll have Covid now on top of their bronchitis which they get every winter. The only reason they had to go in is no doctor, GP or out of hours will listen to their chest like they used to and help prescribe the appropriate medication. The whole system is a joke at the minute.

Anyone coming out to the public like this pointing fingers and lecturing at the current time needs to start showing some concrete policies re Covid management in healthcare, also a directive should be issued to GP's - see Covid negative patients or lose your job. The gall of GP's doing 'phone consults' and landing their vulnerable patients to A&E clogging up the whole system is ridiculous. Rant over!

It is a bloody cheek, but that’s what he’s paid big bucks to do - deflect and divert attention to protect the HSE machine from scandal. Covid is the best excuse they’ve ever had.

The piece RTE have up doesn’t fill me with confidence for the future not to mention a Dr Barry’s comments, i really am concerned for our future freedoms if you live in Ireland especially . If we go back to restrictions despite our vaccination rate it’s f*****g game over for us. Our lives will just become a miserable existence and we’ll never be able to plan anything . They will be a permanent fixture unless some magic vaccine that stops transmission comes along.

I’m not sure Mc Entee’s comments fill me with confidence either. Is she preparing us for that there will be discussions of restrictions between the government and the health officials i wonder. Not to mention a certain ilk of the population crying out for lockdowns.

There are a lot of incidental cases in hospital and the HSE is down sizeable numbers of staff. He shouldn't be tweeting that on a Monday with few weekend discharges. Getting it again and again is what happens with other viruses so no great shock there.

Reid saying still no indications of a peak and will keep rising.

Nope, no indications of a peak whatsoever 😕

Anecdotally, kids classes in school nearly back to full attendence (should be full by tomorrow / wed) after being riddled for the last two / three weeks. It's very clear the wave is on the outward leg through south dublin anyway, although hospitals may continue to be hotbeds of infection for a while yet.

For hospitals maybe not yet but the 7 day positivity rate is falling.