Vaccine Megathread No 2 - Read OP before posting

The fact that vaccinated people make up the vast majority of the population but a minority of those hospitalisedshows vaccines do protect against serious illness.

We're you not saying a few days ago the mvc's were closing down for a few days this week because there was nobody left to jab. Which ones were closed? Maybe you don't know apart from J&J all other vaccines require 2 doses.

In a 100% vaccinated population, 100% of all admissions from covid will be vaccinated, going by your flawed logic, that would mean vaccines are not effective?

Still 370k awaiting a second dose. All the figures you quoted previously about jabs remaining were just made up.

Is the 50% of ICU patients made up also?

Looks to be 20-23%

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.breakingnews.ie/amp/ireland/almost-a-quarter-of-daily-cases-and-icu-admissions-are-fully-vaccinated-hse-1173509.html

You have been consistently and repeatedly wrong over the last few months and my figures have been correct. But instead of admitting it you double down. There are not 370k awaiting a second dose as you claim this time. You are once again wrong. Interval to second doses is now 21 days for Pfizer by the way.

Including those that got a first dose in a nursing home in January and died of covid a few weeks later among those waiting second doses is utterly ridiculous.

And you have an annoying habit of bringing in totally different figures to disprove a claim you disagree with. All I did was reprint the HSE figures. I didn't make up anything but you use a the figure for total icu admissions of all ages to disprove my point ( official HSE figures) that over 50% of those in ICU are over 50.

Just the thought of unvaxxed potential super spreader units out there haunts my thoughts nearly every day now. I was mask shopping yesterday when an inconsiderate bearded young man with an incorrectly fitted mask broke social distancing guidelines and lingered in my personal radius of safety until I informed him how far two meters actually is. My heart was in my mouth all the way home, absolutely terrified. What if he was an antivaxer that didn't do his bit for the greater good? What if the virus was concentrated on his beard and it was amplifying the spread of the deadly virus with every breath he took?. I am going to hold firm for the next few days and isolate, have about three days worth of chicken nuggets and waffles. Why does anyone need a beard? They should be illegal. Carpets for covid. Disgusting imo. I shave everything because it is hygienic.

Hard to know anymore what is satire or what is sincere but this could be either. Growing intolerance and social dissaproval of those that don't get with the program and do as they are told. Expect this to grow if covid continues.

I like to call them parachutes. I have taken the jump with two parachutes. Waiting for a third parachute. As long as I can land safety away from the ICU I am happy. Top tip, you can sanatise a paper coffee cup and plastic lid by holding them under the boiling water tap at the coffee dock. It doesn't take thirty seconds. Quite apprehensive waiting for my booster parachute ATM. Staying inside as much as I can until the next lockdown, I can get back to normal then.

Ah Stephenhmcd. You're like someone that gets angry at a Waterford whispers article because they realize they are the ones being lampooned.

I am doing whatever the experts have told us to do. That's what a good citizen does, they do whatever the experts recommend. Maybe you should listen to an expert like Dr Luke O'Neill. He's always on the money. I have listened to every word that wonderful man has said and I am still alive. He is just one of our cohort of esteemed experts. Broadcasts sometimes from his lab with his white coat on, very authentic, there are test tubes and stuff in the background so he must know what he is talking about. Great sense of humour too, always giggles and laughs heartily when he tells it as it is. Positive guy (not C19). Stops me thinking about pestilence and death for a while every time I see his latest video.

I am a concerned citizen. Never claimed to be a comedian. Nothing is funny anymore. Absolutely nothing,not even Tommy Tiernan. Death ands its evil sidekick Covid19 could be around the next corner. It waits, hangs in the air like the stench of sulfur. Waiting for fresh meat to devour.

Yes although the problem is more fundamental than that I think. The League of Nations had a lot of problems and the UN does now.

Large organisations claiming to be in existence for the good of the whole world, and supposedly lacking the self-interested motives of governments or corporations, are a dream.

They are peopled by all kinds of flawed characters on the make, the same as any large moneyed entity. Google "UN sex abuse scandals".

There is nothing inherently neutral about any 'world' organisation.

Course it is

You have also been watching Dr O'Neill? Don't mistake his laughter for a lack of grave concern. I believe he is trying to calm our shattered nerves by being upbeat. I can still see the fear in his eyes as they dart around, honestly don't think he is taking the piss.

It was a good and proven strategy until the Delta variant, then the strategy needed to change and it did. You're consistently ignoring the events that influence the strategy, in 3 months time I'm sure new things will have happened and future strategy changes will happen, this does not mean that the strategy today is wrong or incompetent.

But just for a bit of fun, what would you change in the strategy today, we can then use your post in 3 months time to see how right or wrong you are.