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Private school teachers prioritised for vaccinations

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    thomas 123 wrote: »
    My grandmother

    Turned away yesterday as not enough vaccines to do everyone delivered.

    Thanks for the personal attack by the way, really forwards your agenda of “this is okay”.
    Fair enough but the question stands. What actual laws allow this arrest you're demanding?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,922 ✭✭✭✭dulpit


    is_that_so wrote: »
    I think you'll find it's a lack of actual facts on a trashy tabloid website that some are questioning.

    I'm only going be the commentary, but if it turns out that the hospital had left over vaccines and they did send them to the private school, what would you say? Good choice or bad choice?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,442 ✭✭✭✭VinLieger


    is_that_so wrote: »
    I think you'll find it's a lack of actual facts on a trashy tabloid website that some are questioning.


    The facts are clear, they had leftovers which should have gone to an already existing priority backup list that didn't skip over 7 other vaccine tiers.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    VinLieger wrote: »
    The facts are clear, they had leftovers which should have gone to an already existing priority backup list that didn't skip over 7 other vaccine tiers.
    Leftovers is the only fact here, the rest is still speculation.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,900 ✭✭✭thomas 123


    is_that_so wrote: »
    Fair enough but the question stands. What actual laws allow this arrest you're demanding?

    There’s none I’m sure but surely something can be done mate.

    I may be being dramatic but sometimes it’s like Groundhog Day.

    Something simple like a person in the HSE to call and ask, who is making these decisions like?

    We have to remember that’s 20 people now that need to get a second dose ahead of others who may need it more.(if it’s one of the two dose versions)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,598 ✭✭✭djemba djemba


    sydthebeat wrote: »
    But instead they rang the local school.... Where the teachers interact with many more people per day than 'cops' or fire men

    Shock horror....

    From a quick count 9 schools primary and secondary within 5 km of the beacon


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,610 ✭✭✭celt262


    You would wonder did they think they could do this without word getting out and causing another storm.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    dulpit wrote: »
    I'm only going be the commentary, but if it turns out that the hospital had left over vaccines and they did send them to the private school, what would you say? Good choice or bad choice?
    Their choice either way. I certainly wouldn't be sharpening up a pike regardless. So much of the frustration and anger is down with vaccine supplies. If we were doing the 250K a week promised this wouldn't even rear its head.


  • Moderators, Education Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 10,686 Mod ✭✭✭✭melekalikimaka


    Nutgrove fire station, loughlinstown ambulance base, and the local Garda station in dundrum are much closer, but they'd be working class people

    If they're working class, who are the middle class?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13 maddison1


    I'm sure there are a lot of creches close by too. Childcare workers have been working since June last year and absolutely no social distancing in a creche .


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,900 ✭✭✭thomas 123


    is_that_so wrote: »
    Their choice either way. I certainly wouldn't be sharpening up a pike regardless. So much of the frustration with vaccine supplies. If we were doing the 250K a week promised this wouldn't even rear its head.

    Why a private school 14km away?

    What are the justifications vs another school closer?

    ^If this is true of course^


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 556 ✭✭✭shtpEdthePlum


    celt262 wrote: »
    You would wonder did they think they could do this without word getting out and causing another storm.
    Indicating this kind of arrogant entitlement goes unpunished all the time. I honestly think the CEO should face jail time. No expensive tribunal bull, just a criminal investigation with a sentence for theft.


  • Moderators, Education Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 10,686 Mod ✭✭✭✭melekalikimaka


    Didn't take like for the elite cabal to arrive on this thread

    How it can be justified is disgusting

    It was also clearly pre arranged . Here listen when I have some leftover I will ring you guys asap

    We really are a horrible country

    The HSE apologised for the error on their part, yet you feel the Beacon CEO planned this? Weird the HSE taking the hit for the CEO, i wonder did the HSE go to Gerards too?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,610 ✭✭✭celt262


    Indicating this kind of arrogant entitlement goes unpunished all the time. I honestly think the CEO should face jail time. No expensive tribunal bull, just a criminal investigation with a sentence for theft.

    I doubt they are the only ones who have got it either there is a good chance he has looked after some of his buddies and relations as well before he moved down his list.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,802 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    celt262 wrote: »
    You would wonder did they think they could do this without word getting out and causing another storm.

    Well judging by the last thread about the master of the coombe giving spare vaccines to his kids rather than the people on the waiting list, most posters saw no issue with it.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,948 ✭✭✭ActingDanClark


    LauraLynn just down the road . Assume they have all be vaccinated though

    I mentioned fire/ambulance/Garda as they'd be 24 hours


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,922 ✭✭✭✭dulpit


    is_that_so wrote: »
    Their choice either way. I certainly wouldn't be sharpening up a pike regardless. So much of the frustration and anger is down with vaccine supplies. If we were doing the 250K a week promised this wouldn't even rear its head.

    Why is it their choice? Surely the vaccine is Ireland's to dispense according to a set of priorities. Not the choice of a private hospital to look after their friends...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 556 ✭✭✭shtpEdthePlum


    Well judging by the last thread about the master of the coombe giving spare vaccines to his kids rather than the people on the waiting list, moat posters saw no issue with it.

    There's an ongoing tribunal so there clearly is actually a problem giving your friends, associates and relatives vaccines over other people.

    Not to mention the other doses they'll have to get.

    Private schools should be free anyway. Level playing field.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,948 ✭✭✭ActingDanClark


    is_that_so wrote: »
    The misguided outrage is strong with this one.

    No outrage at all sadly, this event is all too predictable


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,004 ✭✭✭FileNotFound


    Indicating this kind of arrogant entitlement goes unpunished all the time. I honestly think the CEO should face jail time. No expensive tribunal bull, just a criminal investigation with a sentence for theft.

    Sounds lovely but i am not sure anyone can be charged for stealing things given to them.

    Based on the info to date it would seem favoritism has resulted in a low tier group getting shots. Which is pretty sh1t, especially with many of us having elderly or at risk stuck at home.

    Doubt we have any laws that can have any impact and with the number of shots the beacon will most likely give through the duration of this vaccination program probably not realistic for the Gov to do much about it.

    We live in a country which has worked on who you know for years at all levels in society - not really a shock to see it raise its head here


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  • Moderators, Education Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 10,686 Mod ✭✭✭✭melekalikimaka


    I imagine if it was a public school, the outrage would be minimal


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    No outrage at all sadly, this event is all too predictable
    TBH whether AZ will send us 160K doses over this next week is a far bigger concern.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,640 ✭✭✭Treppen


    is_that_so wrote: »
    Fair enough but the question stands. What actual laws allow this arrest you're demanding?

    Misappropriation of state funds


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,945 ✭✭✭Sweet.Science


    The HSE apologised for the error on their part, yet you feel the Beacon CEO planned this? Weird the HSE taking the hit for the CEO, i wonder did the HSE go to Gerards too?

    Did I blame the HSE ?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,433 ✭✭✭NomadicGray


    I imagine if it was a public school, the outrage would be minimal


    It would never be a public school though


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    Treppen wrote: »
    Misappropriation of state funds
    The shots went into people and it's HSE guidelines in question, no laws. Judging by some comments here they are the last people in the world you'd want to vaccinate!


  • Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 23,233 Mod ✭✭✭✭GLaDOS


    I'd be sceptical of how leftover these leftovers were.

    Cake, and grief counseling, will be available at the conclusion of the test



  • Registered Users Posts: 2,945 ✭✭✭Sweet.Science


    is_that_so wrote: »
    TBH whether AZ will send us 160K doses over this next week is a far bigger concern.

    What are you talking about. We can only deal with what we have now which is a very low supply . It puts much more emphasis of getting them into the arms of our most vulnerable. And private school teachers got vaccinated while our most vulnerable are still waiting

    Its sick . You are looking at this from the wrong way .

    Honestly the more you are replying the more these articles come to my head

    https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/election-2020/twitter-finds-no-evidence-of-mass-effort-by-bots-to-influence-coronavirus-debate-in-ireland-39095284.html


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,241 ✭✭✭✭Busi_Girl08


    I imagine if it was a public school, the outrage would be minimal

    If the Beacon CEO's kids happened to go to said public school I think the outrage would be as is and rightly so.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    What are you talking about. We can only deal with what we have now which is a very low supply . It puts much more emphasis of getting them into the arms of our most vulnerable. And private school teachers got vaccinated while our most vulnerable are still waiting

    Its sick . You are looking at this from the wrong way .
    160K extra shots means a lot more vulnerable people vaccinated quickly, so very much the right way to look at it.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,900 ✭✭✭thomas 123


    is_that_so wrote: »
    160K extra shots means a lot more vulnerable people vaccinated quickly, so very much the right way to look at it.

    Obviously.

    We have to work with what we have as the other poster said - with that in mind this is even more inappropriate.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    I imagine if it was a public school, the outrage would be minimal

    Surely the issue isn’t private or public, it’s the fact that someone or some group had decided to send these vaccines to a school miles away when there were probably another 100 options to choose from.

    It’s clearly an abuse of power, i have no issue at all teachers getting them but surely you just pick the closest school to the hospital, every vaccine counts and all that!


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,945 ✭✭✭Sweet.Science


    is_that_so wrote: »
    160K extra shots means a lot more vulnerable people vaccinated quickly, so very much the right way to look at it.

    Jesus how are you not getting this . We dont have them . So every vaccine at the moment is hugely important to our most vulnerable

    But they went to teachers of the CEOs kids

    There is a school 300 metres away if teachers were their no 1 priority

    They could walk down to a few schools and ask them to pop up with loads of time to spare


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    thomas 123 wrote: »
    Obviously.

    We have to work with what we have as the other poster said - with that in mind this is even more inappropriate.
    It's a minor news story. It'll hit Claire Byrne and all the rest of talk radio, there'll be clarifications, explanations, apologies even and maybe an internal review. Meanwhile, we'll hopefully have got another 80K+ vaccinated.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,556 ✭✭✭Leftwaffe


    Still some yobs defending it I see. Some people would justify anything. Probably the same people who are in line to receive a vaccine from a similar episode to this. These are only the ones we know about too....

    Absolutely disgusting news.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,900 ✭✭✭thomas 123


    is_that_so wrote: »
    It's a minor news story. It'll hit Claire Byrne and all the rest of talk radio, there'll be clarifications, explanations, apologies even and maybe an internal review. Meanwhile, we'll hopefully have got another 80K+ vaccinated.

    Yeah it’s one that has come to light... minor this, okay to leak that, just a little bit of private data of autistic kids, just a few young women with cancer.

    Country is going down the ****ter and so are many of the citizens.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,638 ✭✭✭dubrov


    But they went to teachers of the CEOs kids

    It would be one foolish CEO to get involved with this just to get their kid's teachers vaccinated.

    They wouldn't normally make these decisions so would need to have quite a few people involved to pull it off.

    A lot to risk for little gain


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,802 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    is_that_so wrote: »
    It's a minor news story.

    Corruption is a non issue in Ireland.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 570 ✭✭✭Jane98


    No idea where my post went but...

    I agree, insurance companies have siphoned an incalculable amount of money out of our pockets over the decades - money that should have gone into a robust universal healthcare system.

    Maybe some day we'll be able to join the rest of the developed world and have ourselves a 20th century health service.

    The insurance companies may get the large premiums but most of it is being paid back out to greedy private Consultants who are earning exorbitant amounts of money from the rotten system.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    Jesus how are you not getting this . We dont have them . So every vaccine at the moment is hugely important to our most vulnerable

    But they went to teachers of the CEOs kids

    There is a school 300 metres away if teachers were their no 1 priority

    They could walk down to a few schools and ask them to pop up with loads of time to spare
    I saw a man cross the road against a red light this morning. Still haven't recovered from the outrage! Seriously though it's beyond my control and IMO a very isolated incident whatever way it turns out. We really haven't had any of this type of drama since February!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,433 ✭✭✭NomadicGray


    is_that_so wrote: »
    It's a minor news story.


    Only minor because those running the media are in the same class as those running The Beacon.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,610 ✭✭✭celt262


    dubrov wrote: »
    It would be one foolish CEO to get involved with this just to get their kid's teachers vaccinated.

    They wouldn't normally make these decisions so would need to have quite a few people involved to pull it off.

    A lot to risk for little gain

    Its mind boggling really and i don't see how he will find a way to explain how he decided these were the best candidates for the "leftovers".

    This would annoy me more than the other guy looking after his relations.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,433 ✭✭✭NomadicGray


    Leftwaffe wrote: »
    Still some yobs defending it I see. Some people would justify anything. Probably the same people who are in line to receive a vaccine from a similar episode to this. These are only the ones we know about too....

    Absolutely disgusting news.


    Its like those troglodytes who dont want to tax the rich. They either think they are the same class as these corrupt wretches or soon will be. Of course they're not and will only ever help the gulf between them increase.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    Only minor because those running the media are in the same class as those running The Beacon.
    Hmm 160K shots not arriving next week v 20 shots that went to allegedly undeserving people? No contest I'm afraid. There'll be gnashing of teeth over it, maybe even for a few days and then it'll fade away.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,438 ✭✭✭fergiesfolly


    Did they have 20 vials opened at the same time? Doesn't seem an efficient way to use their allotted batches.
    Why didn't they finish one before opening another?
    If the story hadn't gotten out, would there have been another 20 doses "left over" a day or two later?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 60 ✭✭Apoapsis Rex


    They will have to be given 20 more for the 2nd dose. And they won't be spare doses.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,900 ✭✭✭thomas 123


    is_that_so wrote: »
    Hmm 160K shots not arriving next week v 20 shots that went to undeserving people? No contest I'm afraid. There'll be gnashing of teeth over it, maybe even for a few days and then it'll fade away.


    Was this event okay then in your opinion?

    If yes is it now okay for every vaccination center to do the same going forward?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,610 ✭✭✭celt262


    is_that_so wrote: »
    I saw a man cross the road against a red light this morning. Still haven't recovered from the outrage! Seriously though it's beyond my control and IMO a very isolated incident whatever way it turns out. We really haven't had any of this type of drama since February!

    I would put my life savings on it (which is SFA) that this CEO has been looking after others with the leftovers and that this is no isolated incident. Hopefully there will be an audit of the Beacons vaccinations now.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,433 ✭✭✭NomadicGray


    is_that_so wrote: »
    Hmm 160K shots not arriving next week v 20 shots that went to allegedly undeserving people? No contest I'm afraid. There'll be gnashing of teeth over it, maybe even for a few days and then it'll fade away.


    Of course it will, its exactly how these things get presented. It shouldnt be and anyone who thinks that way is surely an odious twat


  • Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 23,233 Mod ✭✭✭✭GLaDOS


    Did they have 20 vials opened at the same time? Doesn't seem an efficient way to use their allotted batches.
    Why didn't they finish one before opening another?
    If the story hadn't gotten out, would there have been another 20 doses "left over" a day or two later?
    Each vial contains about 6 doses I think (depending on the vaccine used), so translates to maybe 3 or 4 vials. Your point is still valid though.

    Cake, and grief counseling, will be available at the conclusion of the test



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