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

Spot on

I'm already vaccinated but I don't want a mrna vaccine. Not that I think anything mad about dna. It's purely the myocarditis risk for young men which I am. France and Germany recently scrapped moderna for men 30 and under due to it. With Pfizer the risk is lower but still elevated. The incidence of myocarditis was much higher after the 2nd dose than the first so what impact will a third dose have on young men?

I know you can get myocarditis from a covid infection. Its just an anxiety thing I have. Anything to do with the heart gives me heebee jeebees. I'd be worried about it for ages after the jag , I train frequently too and with myocarditis you're supposed to not elevate your heart rate for 6 months after it.

So if they want young men to get another vaccine to be deemed fully vaccinated, I'll be waiting for a new vaccine to appear as it seems j&j and AstraZeneca are out the window when it comes to boosters.

Its so close you can almost smell it!....oh wait, I cant

They have increased the ICU beds to 300 with another 19 on the way .

The issue is staff trained to work independently in ICU , which is ongoing , and the present beds are restricted staffing wise because of people off due to Covid.

Surge capacity into high dependency areas is being used since last week to keep regular services going . . Also there are many patients getting positive pressure respiratory support on main wards , which is normally highdependency care .

This putting a lot of pressure on the staff in busy wards who have now much sicker patients than they usually have to deal with along with their usual workload.

Elective surgery and procedures have been progressed to private hospitals for the last month to ease pressure .

Surge capacity to private hospitals is general care if used keeping ICU and Covid in public system .

ICU runs normally at 100% capacity pre pandemic , with some beds reserved for post elective major surgery . So we are used to being full .

However with Covid the numbers of people required to run separate ICU services is more than just normal surge as happens during busy winters or major accidents . As has been said before it requires total separation from doctors and nurses to porters, admin and cleaning staff .

The big difference with this surge is the health system is trying to keep non Covid care going as well.

My fat finger accidenally hit post on an old draft and I cant delete.

Thanks Vanilla.

I think the government would get a lot more respect and adherence to new guidelines if they were honest about the hospital numbers. Rather than trying to blame hospitality, unvaccinated, etc. if they just said listen, its spreading in the community, its not an issue for the majority but if you present in hospital for something else and happen to be positive it puts strain on the health service.

Instead we have this nonsense of them trying to justify new restrictions and making it out that its because it of lots of seriously ill covid patients.

2 more weeks to flatten the curve....

Lads checking in from UK here - what's happened? Too many hospital admissions? I thought your vaccine progress was about the same as ours? Will we be following you back into lockdown? Well and truly sick of this Covid BS!

Honest answer from my perspective: I was stupid enough to believe those in authority when they dangled the carrot of normality in front of our faces in exchange for the population being vaccinated. I took the vaccine not because I was worried about my health or indeed anyone else's. I took it because the lockdowns, the constant moving of goalposts, the abnormal "new normal" crap with masks and social distancing made me want to crawl into a hole and die and the promise of vaccines was normality. And what I got instead was masks everywhere even after vaccination, abnormal socialising with half-full pubs and reservations that kill spontaneity. I got the detestable vaccine certificate and scapegoating of everyone and everything under the sun (except for the chronic mismanagement of the HSE of course!). And I got a constant fear the government would take my quality of life away again (which they're clearly working towards doing now).

It's not so much that I don't want to get a booster. It's just that I see no point in doing it. The booster won't get us out of this just like the original vaccine doses didn't. The promise of normality is a lie... although in fairness to the government I guess they're not even bothering to lie about getting back to normal anymore.

Netherlands are closing early too .