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

Watch out people. Dr Henry is “very concerned “ of the 600 odd in hospital today despite us surviving 1600 months back. They must like to be heard.

Going by other countries that had a BA.4/5 wave I doubt hospitals will reach 1600 this time.

From RTE :

“The Chief Clinical Officer of the HSE has said he is "very concerned" about the rise in the number of people in hospital, with or because of Covid-19.”

i can’t understand why people continually don’t get it. It’s been spelt out long enough. Yes people can get reinfected but if you have had the virus or/and vaccination you still have significant protection against serious illness. I would say that is what Luke meant.

The media constantly highlights that you can get reinfected, and of course that's right. But in the real world, my own fairly wide anecdotal evidence is this wave is primarily catching all the hold outs from the previous waves( I am one, first time for me! ) but very few are reinfections. Did know quite a few who hadn't already had it, think they're all caught now.

So yes reinfection is absolutely possible but it's really not the majority of cases.

Like an oul 5 day hangover for me, enjoyed my few days of r&r but back to reality tomorrow!

Donnelly expressing “ concern “ again and more or less threatening our freedoms again.

And nearly 50% of those cases are incidental.

Some posters can't help themselves and would like to see this going on and on so they can come in here and think their smart.

See my edited reply, if asked a leading question by a journalist, what do you expect him to say ?

If a journalist asks a leading question saying if the advice coming from public health changes would you consider it, he's hardly going to say no, so the answer is yes he'll consider it. That's what was said last week, that's what was said today. Yet as we know the advice isn't changing so he's got nothing to consider.

It's a pretty straight forward politicians answer

Are you referring to me? Can you not tell the difference between someone a little concerned about restrictions returning from someone who wants them to return?

No , he came out with that statement while he was rambling on because the hospitals are under pressure. He wasn’t asked a specific question to that actual statement. He was basically saying behave little boys and girls or else.

Why would you be worried about restrictions returning anyway they were mainly lifted around the end of January when there were in the region of 10k + cases a day and high hospital and ICU numbers. It's not going to happen.

Masks do absolutely nothing for these variants, we've been here again and again.