Relaxation of Restrictions, Part XII *Read OP For Mod Warnings*

To be fair, it doesn't seem like they did. There has never been any communication from the HSE/NPHET Government over the last 18 months to say get fit, get healthy.

We began to work out towards April-May last year that it wasn't a virus that killed anyone and anything. It was then when the message should have been going out there to improve your personal health, improve your cardio, lose weight, stop eating junk foods and it will help you when you get Covid. They never acknowledged, probably still to this day, that taking vitamin C & D can help improve your chances.

The whole NPHET Government plan was to to run, hide, be fearful, lock us down. Not to improve personal health.

How many of these young people are "so heavy they can't walk" ?. I think you have confused what you see on TV with what is actually happening around you. I believe there is a HSE / ICU staffer who has already refuted your point at least once.

CSO doesnt go into detail on underlying conditions of those hospitalised/ICU, however they have cumulative age breakdowns, shown below:

The column of interest is the last one, 17/09, showing cumulative rates up to 17th september 2021. Only 3% of all ICU admissions are under 25, and only 16% are under 44. Less than a fifth of all ICU beds are taken up by young people, and I'd wager that most of those have some underlying condition to put them more at risk also. And that is with a very broad definition of 'young' (44 and under).

So hopefully we can stop with the myth that young people are filling hospitals or ICU or any such nonsense. |the cumulative death rates by age are even starker, <2% of all deaths from covid were under 44 - thats 63% of the population responsible for <2% of the deaths, and 16% of ICU beds. Covid is a disease of the old and unhealthy (not that its their fault having underlying conditions etc). Young people with no comorbidities have nothing to fear from this virus.

Just listening to the news on the radio and Leo Varadkar talking about they will have to keep an eye on numbers over the next few days and see what NHPET say. According to him they might have to keep some restrictions in place past the 22nd. My hunch is that they will keep the vaccine passports in place

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I suspect the numbers he will be keeping an eye on will be hospital numbers also, perhaps hospital visitors will be restricted to the vaccine passports as you are mixing healthy and sick people, unlike a pub where you are mixing healthy and healthy people

There are due to be a number of events on the weekend of the 22nd which will likely attract large numbers. Cork Jazz festival, Connacht V Ulster in Landsdowne road, Foil Arms and Hog at vicar street, 90s disco at the point, 3 different gigs in the button factory and many more smaller gigs taking place for the bank holiday so for that reason alone I can't see the date of the 22nd being changed

Tony not even mentioned in the article... Stop trying to scare people

No mention of Tony in that article.

Do you not get bored being constantly negative and seeing the worst in absolutely everything. Surely that's not good for someone either.

Thank god I only dip in and out of these threads now, in the real world people are getting on with their life. It's like a doom and gloom echo chamber in here which doesn't seem to play out at all in the real world

Oh yeah I fully agree with you,but Leo said some restrictions might remain(we all know masks are remaining in some places,fair enough). Some posters here were adamant no matter what all restrictions were being lifted on the 22nd and any poster who might of doubted this was wrong and a lunatic. We were also told that the emergency legislation wouldn't be extended because there was no need for it but look what happened there

Who told you these things? Most of what you're talking about are posters’ opinions, which are just that - opinions.  

Of course they are just posters opinions but if any other poster questioned their opinions then they were totally dismissed and called doommongers etc

NPHET: The new priest class.