Coronavirus Pandemic Information- Local and Worldwide

carrollsno1

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117930996#Comment_117930996

Horrible horrible drug that is, was in Adelaide and rumour had it that as the ice was so expensive and high unemployment rates etc the addicts were injecting the ice as they got a high that lasted for days after it. More bang for there buck. Knew an Irish girl over there who told me she tried Ice a few years beforehand i was speechless and she asked me why is it that everyone has the same reaction when they hear that.

Morris Moss

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117931077#Comment_117931077

Was living in a house with a lad who used to disappear after work on a Saturday and without fail turn up half an hour before work on a Monday after being on that shite, he'd be wired for a few days but come Wednesday he'd be falling asleep on the job.

Base price

A neighbour in his early 70's died last week in ICU with pneumonia. He tested positive for Covid in August after taking a mandatory PCR test before flying to the UK to visit family. He went for the HSE test a few days later and it was also positive. He didn't have any symptoms at the time but within a week he developed a harsh cough. He has been working on the farm up until two weeks ago before he had to go to hospital due to breathing difficulties. He was awful careful about wearing his face mask/sanitising his hands when he went to collect his pension and buy the groceries for the week.

He was a lovely man and I will miss chatting to him about the in's and out's of rearing cattle nowdays.

Friend of mine, both his kids are positive for Covid. Big outbreak locally in the schools, seems to have stemmed from one family preferring to give their kids calpol before school instead of bringing them for a test.

Lime Tree Farm

I was told of a neighbouring young lad (20s) who had refused the vaccine, unfortunately is now in intensive care with covid.

wrangler

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118077386#Comment_118077386

All you can do is do your best, once you meet people you're at risk, I presume he was vaccinated

Base price

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118077415#Comment_118077415

Please God he makes a full recovery.

Base price

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118077417#Comment_118077417

Yes he was doubly vaccinated - he was in the age cohort that I think got the vaccines in May/June.

wrangler

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118077460#Comment_118077460

Vaccine is not 100%, plenty of breakthrough infections occuring, hopefully they'll get a successfull vaccine soon.

OH has a science background and she says it was going to be a difficult virus to contain because of it's make up

mahoney_j

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118077510#Comment_118077510

Big surge in outbreaks around me too ….pubs seemingly fairly blase as regards distancing inside etc …it’s going to be a long winter and another lockdown of some sort looks inevitable …in our local Agri store seen one local guy whom has had his teenage /early 20s kid test positive over last few months …wandering around making a half arsed attempt to shove his hat to his face now and again ..too many seem to have forgot the simple guidelines to stop/restrict the spread …vacine appears effective enough at preventing serious illness etc but not great at halting transmission

Water John

Hopefully the antivirals will be soon available and that's another weapon in the armoury. Frontline workers really need the booster, even Paul Reid said so. Can't see why it's not yet recommended. They should simply get the vaccinated list starting from last Jan and offer everyone a six month booster in turn.

carrollsno1

Pondering the thoughts of going to a walk in centre at the weekend, all the talk of boosters is putting me off is it a thing we have to keep topped up into our bodies on a regular basis or what way will it fare out. Thoughts of all the stories of lads being in a bad way after the jab still dont fill me with confidence either.

yosemitesam1

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118079756#Comment_118079756

They cant go in too quickly with the boosters and risk them failing to do much. Aim to be getting them out just after the peak so everyone gets a clap on the back as things are reducing. Just like back in spring...

Water John

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118080040#Comment_118080040

Well as an over 60, I now get my flu jab topped up each year. Really haven't come across anyone having a bad reaction to the vaccine. You'd be getting an mRNA if you go. I would encourage you to go. It's a bit like putting on a seat belt. I was in an accident years ago where a young lad crashed into my trailer load of hay, sliding in under the chassis. Diving onto the passenger seat saved his life and he could do it because he wasn't wearing a seatbelt. He beat the odds, but that doesn't mean that he doesn't use a seatbelt nowadays. The odds are much better with the vaccine.

jaymla627

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118080211#Comment_118080211

You'll probably see booster jabs mandated after we have a meaningful Xmas that leads to skyrocketing cases, anyone gone past the 6 months of last vaccination will have to get a another jab to keep their passes valid, vaccines some as much use as a Johnny with holes in it, going by the number of breakthrough cases locally...

emaherx

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118080893#Comment_118080893

A johnny is an interesting analogy considering their manufacturers don't claim they are 100% effective either.

Dinzee Conlee

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118080040#Comment_118080040

I say feck it, just get it, but it’s your call Carroll’s…

Your post has a feeling of a lad who will always be just about to get it, but will find some reason not to… 😉

I could be wrong to say that though… 🙂

carrollsno1

Hard to bloody know really juat saw an article where Dr Holohan said vaccines wont be enough and weve 93% innoculated now no matter what we wont get 100% either i reckon. @Dinzee Conlee i was dead set against it up until today @Water John the only reason i would have taken it before today was if it was gauranteeing entry to Australia which seems to be getting further and further away by the day anyway. I suppose the whole thing where the pharmaceuticals have no liability is putting me off too.

Dinzee Conlee

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118081779#Comment_118081779

Yeah, the more you read, the more you’d be confused I’d say…

I don’t know, I got the vaccine, was happy to do so. I can’t really say any more to you except you have to decide yourself what to do…

carrollsno1

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118081815#Comment_118081815

Plus i do know of two cases through work where one lad ended up on a ventilator after the first shot, another fella was just f#cked after it. I thought pfizer was one shot now i realised its two shot so i dont even know where to starr on any of this.

Dinzee Conlee

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118081970#Comment_118081970

Yeah, am sure you know of plenty people who got the vaccine who were fine as well…

I don’t know, I’m no medical professional to tell you why or what to do. I can only say what I did…

Like I said earlier - if you look for reasons not to get the jab, you’ll find them… You just have to decide which way to go, and roll with it…

yosemitesam1

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118081970#Comment_118081970

Ask yourself do you see it benefiting you in anyway. If the answer is no. Why would you. It's not as if you being vaccinated gives the mythical benefits to the community that we were told from the start it would.

wrangler

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118082187#Comment_118082187

If carroll ends up with long covid he'll always wonder could he be better if he didn't listen to you.

yosemitesam1

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118082469#Comment_118082469

It's up to him to decide if there'll be a benefit. If not why take it? It's questionable is long covid actually the issue it was made out to be or was that just more hysteria trying to nudge the population in what was deemed the right direction.

wrangler

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118082531#Comment_118082531

Government probably doesn't give a damn whether you do or not. As long as they print the guidelines they've done their job.

Isn't it obvious, they bring in a lockdown and know they have neither the will nor the manpower to enforce it

Nurses and doctors in hospitals might rather you did get the vaccine

mahoney_j

See dr tony has come out this evening saying the vaccine isn’t performing as well as expected in halting the spread of Covid …….

Neddyusa

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118082705#Comment_118082705

...dot dot dot...

It's like a bad daytime TV drama the plot is so predictable!

And yet anyone who predicts it, (Yesemoite Sam and others) somehow get labelled as conspiracy-theorists 😅

wrangler

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118082705#Comment_118082705

Think that's obvious now, I'll still take it in the hope of it reducing the affects when i get it

paddysdream

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118077597#Comment_118077597

Where are people hearing about all these big outbreaks ?Nothing around here as far as I am aware and I would be out and about a fair bit .The usual scare stories about so and so who got covid and almost died etc .

As regards pubs our local ones dispensed with any pretense of even bothering with any of this months ago .Walk into any of them and its like 2019 ie no masks ,never even been asked for covid pass/blue card and stools back at the bar .Packed at the weekends by all accounts (I'm a midweek 11;15pm pub goer to be honest )and busy enough rest of the time but nowhere back to pre covid levels yet .The restrictions are not even a minor topic of conversation any more as its all moved onto CAP and how the Greens are gonna wreck the place .

Soccer and football started back as normal and any protocols that were in place last year are totally gone .The only visible reminder of covid is people scrambling to find a mask as they enter a supermarket .Small local shops ,tractor and motor factors etc very few even bother to mask wear any more .Wife says most supermarket sanitiser stations are empty these days .

Lime Tree Farm

I know lots of people, every age who have had the vaccines, family members, friends, neighbours. az, Pfizer, moderna, no one that I know of had any complications. I drank lots of water before and after, don't know if that helped.