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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: 2,342 ✭✭✭CruelSummer


    Interesting that so many on here spouting on and on about Long Covid don’t seem to give a toss that the main consultant in the country dealing with it is being shut down come September by the HSE. What an absolute joke shop this whole response has been.




  • Posts: 12,836 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    The most common symptoms of long COVID are:

    • extreme tiredness (fatigue)
    • shortness of breath
    • loss of smell
    • muscle aches

    However, there are lots of symptoms you can have after a COVID-19 infection, including:

    • problems with your memory and concentration ("brain fog")
    • chest pain or tightness
    • difficulty sleeping (insomnia)
    • heart palpitations
    • dizziness
    • pins and needles
    • joint pain
    • depression and anxiety
    • tinnitus, earaches
    • feeling sick, diarrhoea, stomach aches, loss of appetite
    • a high temperature, cough, headaches, sore throat, changes to sense of smell or taste
    • rashes


    As long as the most common symptoms listed above are classified as 'Long Covid', nobody is going to take it seriously. Sure narrrow down on the serious affects listed further below, but quoting studies of 20% of people having 'Long Covid' because you've included 'fatigue' is utter nonsense.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,153 ✭✭✭dominatinMC


    Well said. The current definition is so broad and all encompassing, that I'm surprised more people aren't suffering from the dreaded long Covid. For example, I had Covid earlier this year and experienced joint pain not long after. Joint pain is apparently one of the myriad of symptoms. Now, perhaps my own pain is attributable to the 100k+ running I'm doing each month, but I've no doubt some others would quickly have me classified as a long Covid "sufferer".

    Unhealthy people before Covid will still be unhealthy people post Covid. I wonder how many of these post-viral complications existed pre Covid, or were exacerbated by contracting the disease. I do have sympathy for the genuine cases, but I get the impression many are using long Covid to their advantage.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,075 ✭✭✭jackboy


    I remember saying that about those guards here at the time. Loads of posters came on saying that the guards were not breaking rules as they were on duty making those videos. Talk about deflection from the main point.

    Also, lots of people saying those guards were cheering the country up. I don’t know, maybe a few small children were entertained, can’t imagine many beyond that.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 627 ✭✭✭DLink


    It annoyed me no end, yet people say that I'm a bit of a child 🤣

    They may have been on duty, but is part of their duty to dance around like idiots? Were large groups of them patrolling that particular beach or forest at the same time? Give me patience.

    What annoyed me the most is the fact that we had some cracking weather during lockdown, yet we couldn't budge from the house and visit where the idiots were prancing around.... unless that beauty spot was within 5km of your house.

    Myself and the missus sat at a park bench during lockdown having a bit of lunch, and our glorious dancers pulled up alongside the bench and eyeballed us. They didn't move us on, but I think they were just too lazy to get out of the car.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,334 ✭✭✭bloopy


    It was worth it for that wonderful, almost black mirror style, dance on the late late with the front line workers.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,739 ✭✭✭✭PTH2009


    Great to see these threads so quiet



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,678 ✭✭✭Multipass


    Luke O’Neill on Newstalk just now

    ‘Covid is a disease of ageing’

    Why didn’t he pipe up 2 years ago? He was on to talk about how climate change is going to increase disease because the higher temps will increase insect activity (not mentioning that at the same time it supposedly wipes out all insect life)

    😂



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,216 ✭✭✭Spudman_20000


    Maybe because he's a complete grifter that will say whatever suits the narrative at the time so long as it lines his pockets?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,628 ✭✭✭Micky 32


    I see that hospitals in the UK are to stop testing for asymptomatic admissions.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,739 ✭✭✭✭PTH2009


    The overreaction of the whole thing really starting hit home now

    Scared to think about the mental and financial damage our covid response has caused



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,628 ✭✭✭Micky 32


    Ah yes RTE and other Media in cahoots with Mr Tedros today. Apparently we aren’t learning to live with Covid because there are 1 million ‘related’ covid deaths so far this year. Also we have the necessary ‘tools’ to stop this apparently. This shyte and the quest for perpetual restrictions will never end. Does Tedros know that 17 million people die every year from heart disease? I have never seen him condemn a McDonalds or a KFC food chain. My 56 year old cousin dropped dead a few weeks ago enjoying said diet.

    It’s like this. I’m getting my second booster tomorrow. Yes Covid is not going away or will it ever go away and it will never be over. Unfortunately the zealots will never go away either and i suspect they will get angrier and louder as time goes on. I’m seeing on social media including twitter they are beginning to lose the plot more and more.

    As i said, getting my booster tomorrow and as far as I’m concerned Covid is over for me. They can all **** off including anyone who has an issue with my post.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 627 ✭✭✭DLink


    You complain about the WHO complaining but then you say you're getting a booster.

    If you say it's over, and that covid is with us forever, why are you getting a booster? Are you going to keep getting boosters every time they make a new one?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,838 ✭✭✭corcaigh07


    Getting a second booster seems to be a big contradiction from the first part of your post, Micky. DLink was right to question that.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78 ✭✭live4tkd


    100%!

    We have a refugee crisis which is turning into a complete sh*tshow too on top of this. I have said it previously we needed something major to distract the hysterics and government from Covid and boy did we get it!

    There are people I do not see locally anymore who used to be out regularly but such as the media driven hysteria they don`t venture out. A work colleagues parents up the country are the same. Scary to think this is still happening.

    Yet the government response to Covid, the current refugee crisis and Troystory will still be defended to the hilt by some!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,628 ✭✭✭Micky 32


    Not really. It’s a personal choice. It’s not a restriction. You don’t have to get vaccinated these days so why does that seem to bother Mr DLink whether i get vaccinated or not? I don’t care if he gets a booster or not or am i demanding that he should. My point is that i have done everything i was asked to do to get my normalcy back. Like most people i sacrificed 2 years and got vaccinated and there are still some out there who think it’s not good enough and continue with the doom and gloom while on a quest for restrictions and further society shutdowns.

    You do realise the WHO want you to give up your normal life and want governments to reintroduce restrictions and mask mandates is one of them. Just sayin’ ….

    But ok i will give my reasons for my booster. I’m not 30 anymore i hit 50 last year. My work is high risk for contracting Covid and i have 2 transatlantic flights in the next month. I regularly travel over to the States.

    No i don’t plan to take every new vaccine that comes out but i may take a booster every autumn just like people take the flu shot every year( no i don’t take the flu shot or any other vaccine)

    . However if Covid miraculously dwindles out i won’t be taking any more jabs for sure.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,274 ✭✭✭EOQRTL


    I'm finished with the whole thing personally. 3 jabs in the space of just over a year and they want me to get another one starting next week?? Get ta fcuk otta that. Covid is a disease fatal to the very old and those with severe health issues and always has been . The figures don't lie.

    We've all been had over the last few years.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,536 ✭✭✭Silentcorner


    Just look at the people who pocketed a fortune over the last few years!!


    Any sign of that headbanger who was all over Irish media for 2 years, predicted over 100,000 deaths back in March 2020...in the end it was the sole factor in less than 200 deaths!!!


    The rest had suffered at least one serious comorbidity, many of them multiple comorbidity's, the very same people who had access to the health systems pulled from them!!!

    While imposing quarantine on healthy peoples is and will continue to take a massive toll on people.


    The price of this madness is only starting to manifest itself, I hope those in charge of this are ashamed of themselves.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,739 ✭✭✭✭PTH2009


    The next general election is going to be fun



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,153 ✭✭✭mollser


    Is that because the shinners and assorted lefties wanted harder and longer lockdowns I.e. zero covid? I won't forget that for sure!



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,003 ✭✭✭Stormyteacup


    Latest from ‘headbanger’ in today’s Irish Times:


    “He [McConkey] told The Irish Times, they were not seeing people with Covid dying from “Type 1 respiratory failure” due to lack of oxygen in recent months. As most people were vaccinated, lung failure was not arising, he confirmed.

    With so many people having had Covid or three to four vaccines, the latest variants were more transmissible “but less pathogenic to the lungs”.”

    Omicron variants less dangerous because of vaccines? Is it my comprehension fault or is that what he’s claiming?

    He has also claimed a 20% chance of a more infectious mutation arising. I’d like to see the workings on that - I suspect he borrowed Philip Nolan’s modelling machine to come up with it.

    And also in that article, HSE on Claire Byrne yesterday bemoaning the ‘small but really important’ number of unvaccinated (150,000 - 200,000) as the unvaccinated are disproportionately represented in the hospital figures. How is this nonsense still being peddled?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,536 ✭✭✭Silentcorner


    He is a dangerous individual, wasn't is he who suggested men should have a licence to leave their homes in the evening after that murder earlier in the year!!

    Probably believes that climate change created the virus and toxic masculinity spread it!!

    The only smart thing I've done in recent times is to completely stop engaging with Irish mainstream media, I should have done it 20 years ago!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,628 ✭✭✭Micky 32


    Jesus the doom and gloom in that article. Then you have the WHO “ countries must act before it’s too late” bolloxogy. Act how?? Do they want us to **** reintroduce a raft of restrictions for the winter?

    The stats being low are never ever going to be good enough. They will just keep this going..



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,536 ✭✭✭Silentcorner


    And our government were all on for signing the WHO Pandemic treaty. Sheer madness, people need to keep a very close eye on what is happening and not rely or engage with mainstream media at the same time!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,739 ✭✭✭✭PTH2009


    Then on the other side we have the people who were in power but hid behind scientists during the pandemic



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 627 ✭✭✭DLink


    What has come of the government signing up for that WHO bolloxology, is Mehole still waiting on the report about the report?

    I can't see them going for full lockdown again as thankfully we can't afford any more of that theatre, but they're gonna keep peddling the drugs and possibly masks.

    I've stopped listening to the radio and watching RTE news, and all TV adverts get paused & skipped, but just today I heard a radio advert pushing the vax, and they're still using "for us all" as a tagline...



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,536 ✭✭✭Silentcorner


    I don't know, I believe it was a few African countries that pushed back on it (could be wrong on that) but it will be pushed again...if our government signs it and they are very enthusiastic about signing it, then locking down, closing schools, shutting businesses, letting the elderly pass away in nursing homes alone etc inflicting huge harm on healthy people will be a decision made in WHO head quarters, if they declare a pandemic! Our politicians are capable of doing that...so brace yourself for the climate emergency!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,003 ✭✭✭Stormyteacup


    Yes indeed. And Rishi Sunak is calling out the UK government for doing just that, it’s interesting that none of the Irish media have commented on his covid restrictions views yet.. they have been reporting on his and Liz Truss’s media interactions eagerly… except this one so far.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,739 ✭✭✭✭PTH2009


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,141 ✭✭✭✭Spanish Eyes


    Last month I was in hospital for a specialised cardiac surgery. No questions asked, no Covid test either. All good, and thanks for asking I'm still here!

    As I have this issue with the ticker I will be getting the booster, and the flu jab, and the pneumonia jab. I'll be high as a kite.



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