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

JP Liz V1

From RTE

There is increased Covid-19 activity in Ireland, the Health Protection Surveillance Centre has said.

There were 502 cases seen in the week to 2 June, compared with 306 cases the previous week.

However, there were no ICU admissions and no deaths reported in the last week.

No new variant of concern has been identified and currently the predominant variant is the JN.1 strain.

The HPSC said that increased waves are usually seen every three to five months.

signostic

Third time to have it but this time it feels worse. Sweating in bed the past 3 nights, sheets and pillows wet from sweating. Had to get up in middle of night to change bed clothes. Sneezing alot before a positive test on Thursday last, then sore throat, headache, runny nose and I now have a cough. Not nice.

PTH2009

Has covid changed things ?

People are not as social and more aware of crowd safety etc

Funerals a little different, less going to the 'viewing'

Lifestyles have changed some for the better, some for the worst

KanyeSouthEast

I’d say people use it as an excuse and suit themselves much like the whole lockdown. People took the parts that suited them and ran with it but where is started to impact them a bit more the rules became a bit more disposable.

JP Liz V1

From Yahoo News

A new - and potentially more transmissible - variant of COVID could become dominant this winter, experts believe.

Global cases of the XEC variant have been rising slowly since it was first identified in Germany in June.

In the US, the variant now accounts for 6% of sequenced infections, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. XEC has also emerged in the UK, but case numbers are not currently known.

Scott Roberts, an infectious diseases specialist at Yale Medicine, said: “One reason for the concern is that XEC has moved quickly enough to outpace the growth of all other variants in a few areas in Europe."

PTH2009

Micky 32

Oct 17, 2024

Lol, haven’t check this thread in a longtime. Still going? Nearly 5 years on and certain people still whining for restrictions. Like all other viruses out there we have to live with covid whether we like it or not.

We're should of been doing it since mid 2020

Atlantic Dawn

There's a new XEC variant (sounds like a high end Volvo) to get it in to you Cyntia...

https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/health/new-xec-covid-variant-believed-to-be-more-transmissible-is-detected-in-ireland-after-sweeping-across-europe/a2145304831.html

Juwwi

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122730751#Comment_122730751

I counted back 10 posts before your's and the 10th post was back in May so the thread is barely active .

Also l didn't see anyone whining for restrictions ? where did you read that ?

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122730897#Comment_122730897

I don't believe there have been any variants.

Quantum Erasure

Saw this account pop up on my timeline, there's a blast from the past.... They were usually the first with the daily numbers out of China from fairly early on in the epidemic

https://twitter.com/BNOFeed/status/1863236886979809290

JP Liz V1

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122913529#Comment_122913529

It don't feel 5 years

JP Liz V1

It's 5 years since the first case in Ireland, what is everyone's opinions and thoughts now, are you still worried?

I do still mask if I am out and sick and I try to keep a distance, cover when coughing, just these little things have stuck with me

fun loving criminal

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123258029#Comment_123258029

Amazing how it's the only virus that has been eradicated through wishful thinking. Job well done everyone, we have flattened that curve, all the while completely ignoring the damaging effects of it.

PTH2009

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123262844#Comment_123262844

Indeed and we can't talk about it now without it been considered as a doom merchant that was 'wrong' all the time about our predictions etc

No way we'll see something similar in our lifetime. It cost so so much worldwide

A complete Farce, blood on the hands

REDBULL68

Biggest load of bollix I've ever seen I usually get a cold in winter for years, tested positive for covid ,my friends mam was 89 smoked most of her life and had lung problems, she died, diagnosis covid ,I could go on but I'm sure everyone on here that don't have an agenda, will have had similar experiences.

fun loving criminal

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123262850#Comment_123262850

Everyone going around and spreading the flu. Everything is the flu now. The flu, the flu, and more flu. Nobody even bothers to isolate anymore and they take no precautions. People have become selfish.

fun loving criminal

Everybody is more sick. I have a colleague who has had the flu twice this year and that was in the space of 9 weeks. Sick for over 35 days combined. And that's before the allergies, the summer flu and the travelling flu start. That person is looking to be sick for over 100 days this year. That is almost ⅓ of the year. I can't get my head around the fact how that much sickness is more preferable than ever wearing an N95 mask and taking other precautions and perhaps opening a window in stared spaces.

Spudman_20000

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123262965#Comment_123262965

Yeah, "everyone is so selfish" say the people who want everyone to go around taking "precautions" for the rest of our lives so they don't ever so much as get a case of the sniffles.

JPCN1

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123262980#Comment_123262980

’That person is looking to be sick for over 100 days this year’….

I usually look to be sick for zero myself.

fun loving criminal

Covid is not the sniffles.

Spudman_20000

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123263531#Comment_123263531

Didn't say it was, read my post again.

Also, "everyone" is not going around "spreading the flu" and "everybody" is not "more sick".

Royale with Cheese

What's Tony up to these days?

fun loving criminal

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123263552#Comment_123263552

Then go elsewhere and write about your sniffles. This isn't the place in a covid 19 thread.

Most people are going around spreading their germs. This past winter everybody was going around with the flu. And people are ending up with weaker immune systems from catching repeated covid infections. Weaker immune systems is leading to sicker people. If you want to dispute that, go somewhere else. There's over 400,000 studies that has showed the damaging effects of covid.

JDxtra

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123262980#Comment_123262980

Sounds like a piss take. Never heard of a summer flu. Why are they “looking” to be out for 100 days?

Are you sure that person is not simply taking the mick to avoid attending work?

fun loving criminal

They have been definitely been sick twice this year, so no they aren't making it up. That time came up to 35 days. And it's only March. That time can easily add up to over 100 days be the end of the year with everything going around.

JDxtra

I know everyone is different - but that's an unreasonable length of time to be off sick with a flu like illness.

There is something else going on here.

In any normal organisation, that person would be questioned by Human Resources. If you are predicting 100 days off by the end of the year, then maybe that person needs to consider if they are fit for work at all.

GHendrix

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123264780#Comment_123264780

A person that needs 100 sick days a year shouldn’t be working at all. I imagine the employer is doing everything they can to get rid

fun loving criminal

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123265305#Comment_123265305

If an employer is holding absences against someone, you would think they would be better off at promoting protection instead. So much leaflets about weight loss, giving up smoking, the importance of sleep. But one on preventing illnesses, like sensible measures like hand washing and wearing a good quality mask for protection and especially for sick people coming in and spreading what they have (N95), ventilation or fresh air in the workplace. But no way. Apparently it's all too much.

OnTheCorner

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123263782#Comment_123263782

This is ridiculous. You had your fun controlling every aspect of people’s lives before, would you not just move on to something else?

Dano650

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123265409#Comment_123265409

You need to get over covid lad. Most of the country don't care about it anymore. Get out there and enjoy the good weather and the nice stretch in the evenings. We are getting closer to the summer.