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

We banned smoking where others were put at risk.

Drink driving tackled for the same reason.

Thats public health and the same principles are behind covid regs.

There is the nanny state banning things for your own good where your behaviour affects your health only but thats a different debate.

You keep saying "rights" but it isn't a right. Anyway ignoring this, are you happy to perform an antigen anytime you go anywhere to uphold people's "right" to not be infected? You're double vaccinated but the public has no assurance that you're not infected by sars-cov-2 or other viruses.

No they think it is likely but still not said by NIAC ..misleading article .

On that as well no mention of high risk group so just a filler piece .

Hearing that the vast majority of people dying with covid were fully vaccinated is a darned inconvenient fact isn't it. Hard to have a scapegoat when there is such an obvious rejoinder, it really would be easier if those facts were suppressed.

UHL is managing a massively underserved area after many smaller hospitals inthe midwest have been closed inthe past few years and promised extra services and staff in Limerick either haven't happened or are only starting now because of Covid . Impossible to manage infection control in a regular winter without outbreaks never mind with Covid .

There has been an outbreak in the hospital I think which is affecting their numbers .

The hospital is getting bad press for being under staffed and under resourced . So who is responsible for that and decisions to close smaller stepdown hospitals ?

I work in Dublin but it galls me that people don't know this when nurses and doctors and the public have been campaigning for years about the conditions in UHL trying desperately to raise awareness.

Waterford's highcase number may be being driven by a surge in mild cases in primary schoolchildren, but they are classed as family outbreaks ..Not requiring hospitalisation.

This group is accounting for over 20% of the high milder case numbers at the moment . Unvaccinated . No fault, no judgement , just saying .

They were 40% a few weeks ago when they bizarrely stopped informing parents re close contacts . Since then numbers in other age groups particularly 25 to 44 which would be common parental age has gone up .

There are communions and confirmations and weddings and all sorts of intergenerational mixing going on,which is why we are seeing the higher numbers .

We have all been enjoying this freedom but the fact that they stopped informing the close contacts in schools just when all of these intergenerational activities and mixing was allowed, was a mistake imo, and I have said this before here . Children are not vectors but they are going to pick it up however mild if unvaccinated as it is circulating in schools.

While contacts were being informed and notified families could protect those elderly/ vulnerable or make choices about whether they went out together or not .

I am not saying isolate or stay at home if not symptomatic but it would have made sense to at least let people know .

Antigen testing would be useful now, in schools and in colleges , and workplaces to keep outbreaks down .

Another 2,180 new cases, 406 in hospital, down seven since yesterday, ICU 71, down two.

Why are you going to extremes? I am talking about flu seasons. And you are introducing other viruses and discuss it... You are discussing with yourself

Note that post That Fergal guy got it axxxways ! The HSPC link is April 1st to up to SEPTEMBER 11th!

And @ FrOg hhas not even noticed that😁

You said FROM September 11th . It is UP TO . ! !

It would be better if you got your post right and quoted correctly. How about that for metrics ?

Nope. Good lad , do whatever you think you need to do. Far be it for me or anyone else (except Public Health maybe ?) to advise you otherwise .

Is it Ireland or the UK you are talking about btw ? You have said before you are in the UK some of the time ...

And if you paid closer attention to the posts on twitter you would see that he has subtracted 1st April - 11th September from 1st April - 9th October giving the numbers from 11th September to 9th October. Hence the published figures SINCE 11/09