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

Its not the missing the summer travelling, its the total isolation the young have endured and there is no end to it all.

You make friends for life in university and this is particularly important for young people who have been unhappy in school. Its the friendship group that is most important in times of mental health difficulties for young people and many parents are now trying to access mental help care for their young and its simply not there. There are are about four inpatient adult beds for people suffering with life threatening eating disorders so if you dont have private health cover you are on your own. Theere has been a huge increase in eating disorders but obviously not much sympathy here either for these people, sure, why cant they show a bit of grit and get on with it, they have never had it so good.

Covid is endemic now so we need to stop counting case numbers and just relay hospital information.

We are being kept in the dark about hospital numbers, so much so that the Deputy Leader has gone public saying the Government wants detailed data, in what other context does the Government with legions of civil servants available make statements regarding lack of information, its not as if Leo has to make a freedom of information request to get this information, he or Stephen Donnolly can ring their senior advisors, one is on over 200,000 euros a year and just demand this information. Its quite obvious that people presenting with other issues are being counted as hospitalised covid cases, do we in the height of the flu season test people for flu and if they have no symtoms count them as hospitalised with flu.

It seems about fifty per cent of the people in ICU with covid have been there for months, this means we need only to count new admissions to ICU if we want to assess the Delta effect.

We are being told there is a hurricane of delta cases to come and thousands of people will be infected and hundreds admitted to hospital, when is this to start happening.

Of course good results in college are relevant, these are the brightest and best and the ones who have to work their socks off to pay taxes to fund the social housing for those leaving school with no qualifications.

If you dont get a good degree from college your options are limited,education opens doors and other countries do not want young people who will be a drain on their finances, we will be left with this cohort.

Everyone is entitled to leave the country if another country is welcoming to them.

You dont need a cystal ball to see the state this country will be in in a couple of years, construction closed down for months while we have a housing shortage.

Highest rate of obesity in the EU and we close down outdoor sports for months.

At least Boris to be fair is grasping the issue of obesity and its relevance to bad covid outcomes,here its never even mentioned, instead lock down all healthy outdoor pursuits and cause despair in those who love their sport, easier than telling every GP to identify their obese patients and tell them to stop eating crap and get off the sofa.