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

If you were trawling through her 1000s of posts you would surely have noticed that GG is an ICU nurse dealing daily with Covid patients . Perhaps you would then have realised then why she has interest in this thread and her very informative insight into the reality of this pandemic

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Well unfortunately, I disagree with you. Our successive governments have covered up so much for the health service over the years with zero intention of ever making it, or anyone involved in it accountable, and that, for me, this is the final straw. Covid was yet another showing of how incompetent and corrupt our political leadership are when it comes to matters relating to the fat and bloated money pit that the HSE is.

Far too many suckling at its teat in my opinion and in any other sector it wouldn't be tolerated. Covid has allowed them to get away with so much. Far too many people haven't felt any financial hardship so they haven't a breeze of the many aspects of Covid, not just "de numbers"

Healthcare workers, like porters? Not in a million.

But to be perfectly frank, I have zero interest in going down this wormhole with you, we both know where you are trying to lead it. Its 10.45pm on my one day a week off and I'm still working(with the ever so slight distraction of boards brought on by seeing Paul Reids smarmy mush on the 6.1 😁) so in the interest of sanity, I'll bid you adieu GG

Goodnight all you lovely people ,take care 😊

It's not one or the other , maybe a bit of both.

If you want to know look at hospital stats and you can see transfers.

Let them eat cake.

Wasn't MM gallivanting over in Glasgow with Rip Van Ryan there recently as well?

Ouch

As GG says, unless we can see the transfer data, that doesn't necessarily tell us there are outbreaks. It is most likely that COVID+ patients are being transferred from smaller or private hospitals to the main centres.

Given the surge in hospital numbers early last week, the relatively small increase so far over the weekend is encouraging. If this morning's numbers come in under 650, then we'll be in a much better place than I expected.

People are going to see Paul Reid at a function or 2 and use it to justify their own behaviours of getting into packed pubs and other crowds over and over.

We were asked to cut down on socialising to reduce our social contacts in order to reduce the growth of the virus. The health officals are not asking the population to **** on our plans or for the craic or whatever but the virus and the pandemic still poses a significant threat to the population. The virus is appearing differently in everyone but there is flu type of sickness involved for 3+ weeks. Who wants to be sick like that especially now so close to Christmas? Who wants to be sick at Christmas time? I know some people on boards.ie like to claim is virus is a little sniffle but it's not for all and who wants to see sickness spread? There's an element of cruelty wishing to see virus and sickness spread onto the population.

We weren't asked to stop socialising altogether. We were asked to scale it back a few notches so Paul Reid attending a function where social distancing occurred is irrelevant.