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

We asked already. Schedule not changing. It’s only a couple of weeks away and like I say hopefully the weather holds till I’m fully done. And my even bigger hope is that once we get everyone a vaccine that wants one, we abandon this pass nonsense and get back to a rational approach to drinking/dining, and heaven forbid,don’t extend it into other areas of everyday life !

These case numbers now seem flat and apart from a bit of a rise in admissions still no great alarm.

You are fighting enemies which do not exist in the main outside of the online circus.

Not everyone who declines the vaccine or is uncomfortable with the passport ideas are the same as the lunatics who turn up at the gamma o'doherty protests.

There are many people who are uncomfortable with the vaccines and if they don't want one then that is their right.

The coercive techniques being employed at the moment are unlikely to change their minds.

Edit: also, I never mentioned discrimination in my previous post. You inserted that in there in your rage and anger. It kinda illustrated what I am talking about.

There are a lot of people fighting windmills at the moment. On both sides of the argument.

I don't know where you are getting "rage and anger" from - the only people I see raging and angry are the ones shouting into megaphones in Dublin city centre.

Most of the rest of us just wanted to be protected from your choices and frankly don't care all that much about what your views are. For a group who are very clear about how little they care about everyone else, the anti-vaxxers seem to be very upset about how little everyone else care about them.

Agreed on the unvaccinated children.

I think the risk to a general lifting of all restrictions is Winter, and a possible resurgence of the virus because of the environmental factors at that time. Israeli data is suggesting that people there who got vaccinated in January are largely losing their antibody protection (this is to be expected, we will still have slower-acting memory cells), and so we may need to roll out boosters for the most vulnerable people over the next few months. I could see a vaccine cert being required for many activities until Spring of next year. Large parts of Europe seem to be heading towards vaccine passports, and many are rolling back reopenings and restricting them only to vaccinated people who are less likely to spread the virus.

Well if it doesn't affect a random internet user I suddenly don't see what all the fuss has been about.

I think we could have done with better communication at explaining that the reason for the long delay in the AZ first and second vaccine is because a long gap gives much better protection with this type of vaccine. The mRNA vaccines use a different technology and a shorter gap seems to work better. There seems to have been a lot of "why are we waiting so long to get my AZ second-dose those with Pfizer get theirs within 4 weeks", as if it is a scheduling issue when all along the plan was for a delay.

Nope this random internet user don't matter much...no more than that random internet user

but like I said first world problems

No generation have ever been as mollycoddled as todays youth. Molluycoddled grey haired oldies indeed.

You do realise graduates were imigrating en masse for a year or two before covid? Pay was generally to awful and rents too high to allow for savings. Could get better wages, pay less rent and actually make savings.

Why is it that those complaining about the covid response on the youth dont seem to know how fúcked over the young were pre-covid?

Do you blame covid for the 22 year olds to leave in 2018 and 2019? This isnt new but it is amusing to see people try to act like it is.

Just a few weeks folks, to flatten the curve.

Don't worry, they will soon be closing the cinema loophole as well.

Are you actually serious? Have always thought you had a balanced yet (IMO) slightly conservative view however this is beyond that.

Children are not vectors, nor do they get sick. They weren't a threat in an unvaccinated world so they certainly aren't a threat to a vaccinated older generation. Anyone suggesting that children are all of a sudden are a threat have gone off the deep end.