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The latest "take on covid seems to be back to "you are a naughty boy/girl if you don't fall in line to protect the 85 year olds"

Thing is ,do all the 85 years olds feel that way ?

I only can speak for one person that age and their opinion is its all a load of nonsense .That's only their opinion and they may be wrong but they are entitled to it regardless .

People are inherently selfish and only concerned with themselves ,immediate family and friends .Anything beyond that is usually detached .

The quote attributed to Joseph Stalin on the lines of "one death is a tragedy but one million is just a statistic " or "its all fine and well until it lands on your door " are I think ,a true reflection of human nature .

Reading and listening to all this covid stuff since February 2020 I feel people are ultimately only concerned with the impact of it on them and their loved ones .I hold my hands up and say I am no different .It has had no effect on me from a fear point of view ie I am not in the slightest concerned if I or one of my family contract it .Craw thumping and public displays of concern are all fine and dandy .I have yet to actually hear of a single person known to me who contracted covid ,were in anything but very poor health and ended up hospitalised .Yes I know of a few who died from/with (who the fcuk knows) it in March and April 2020 but these were long term residents of nursing homes and were in all cases 80 plus ALONG with being in very poor health .

Do people really think Micheal Martin ,Leo Varadker, Tony Houlihan et al give a sh1te about this ,only the impact it will have on their careers ?

This might seem like a contradiction for someone who posts on a covid thread but in all honesty I have less than zero interest in it .It impacted my life last year when stuff was closed but at this stage all it is to me is shoving on a mask when going to the supermarket.Can think of no other issue offhand at the moment unless you count the price of lambs and no idea if thats a positive if unintended consequence of covid .Have yet to get tested ,only once have had to produce my vaccination cert (brought out the mother in law for her birthday so maybe thats karma ), ,no tracing as a close contact that I am aware of .Am heavily involved in underage sport and a few other things and all that has been getting slowly back to reality this last few months .Covid protocol is mostly gone from kids sport at this stage ,with the only obivious thing being the lack of handshaking at the end of a game .The stuff about sanitising balls ,goalposts etc along with the home side paying all the match fee in a sealed envelope wrapped in plastic is long gone out the window .

I am amused/annoyed ? probably concerned for is the most apt phrase ,by those on boards who seem to take such a personal in interest in it and are prepared to condemn and berate the latest villians ,be it meat factory owners ,teenagers ,racegoers or our latest scapegoat,primary schoolchildren along with following the never ending contradictory "advice " and rules .

No issue with people following the rules but please remember not everyone is coming from the same place as you .

Does every virus really go that way or does immunity mean it'sless severe over time?

Flu strains had gone as mild as they were ever going to go in the middle ages.

Didn't stop them wiping out vast numbers of people in the America's with no previous immunity. Even in modern times when some of the very remote amazon tribes were exposed for the first time, it was much more severe than in the rest of the population.

When a population is no longer naive to a disease, its severity is very different.

Bar it was new, covid was never vastly different in its behaviour from other Coronavirus strains. When the population gets broad acting immunity (if we're not there already), it will just be another cold (non covid colds do kill lots of old people and always have).

If you take flu immunity, there's cumulative benefits overtime gained from repeated exposures. The head of the flu virus changes rapidly but the rest of it doesn't. Broad based immunity from past exposures to different strains means the body has antibodies ready to go that severely limit the severity of illness even though they are not the most effective antibodies at halting infection.

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Actually if you read the detail of what happened rather than just sensational headlines.

he asked for I think a 3 day delay so the scope could be better defined as he had done for previous reviews of issues as was his job.

he was fully cleared of any improper actions.

maybe educate yourself with facts rather than clickbait headlines.

his advice regarding covid has been on point from the beginning.

Got the second shot yesterday evening, flattened today after it. Think ill take the half day today.

Was goosed for 2 days after mine ….not sick just foiked,heavy legged and lethargic ….

Went to A&E on the advice of the GP all clear but still f#cked had a younger cousin get pericarditis after his vaccination too, cant see myself getting a booster if im going to be like this each time.

Early days but Omicron seeming no worse and possibly milder than previous mutations.

Given it’s apparent increased transmissibility and if it is milder it might be good for it to become the dominant stain and push out the others.

It could be exactly what the restrictions and vaccinations were buying us time for.

I reckon in Austria and Germany your going to see mass rioting and a breakdown of social order if they force through the vaccine mandates especially in the 5-12 year old age cohort of kids, studies coming out now show teenage boys are at greater risk of hospitalisation with myocarditis after vaccination, then they would be if they got covid 19, any democratic government that presists with vaccine mandates on the above age group are setting themselves up for medical negligence payouts in the years ahead that would be eye-watering, our have countries absolved themselves like the pharmaceutical companies from redress?

Looks like well all be day drinking over christmas as opposed to night time drinking, **** ridiculous guidelines set out.

The most stupid decision ever

Loads more house parties all sorts of slobbering and messing. This variant is here and nothing is going to stop it.

Crock of shite at this stage ….utter contempt for hospitality trade and everyone who has been double and treble jabbed now …treating us like kids

Do they not realize that people will behave the same, or even worse, after the pubs, restaurants, etc are closed at 8

Was going to say the same. 8 o clock fine with me, save me from myself

Have a 20 and 17 year old here so I know the story.

Same here.

Head down and arse up so for ye

That’s it Eastern boyeen, let it all out online…. 🙂

Youngest was heading home from Scotland yesterday and went to a NHS clinic on Tuesday to do a PCR test. The lady at the reception desk who took his details on hearing his accent asked him if he was heading home, he said he was. After he got the clear test she walked into the rest area and gave him two packs of rapid lateral flow tests for free - I think each pack contain 5 test kits 👍️

17 year old is going out with her friends etc, so not much of a difference for her.

If this wave turns out with the casualty rate of the flu, it needs to be the end of restrictions..

A lot of people have had enough of it at this stage, they've gone and gotten the Vaccine, they wear the mask in public they've been in lockdown and do not want to return to it, so this lockdown by stealth isn't going to wash for much longer.

Constant lockdowns and restrictions is not the solution at this stage.

Whats the point of it anyway when we have open boarders with the UK where the same restrictions or even peoples attitude to the whole thing are vastly different

Not enough people are proper fed up yet. I hope they go for the full lockdown by new years. People need to be pushed harder yet to really piss them off.

Otherwise we probably will be in the exact same position as we are now this time next year

With the halting of bond purchases in america due in march. Things could get very interesting very fast when money supply starts to tighten