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

I wouldn't hang around to find out. Objectors should seek asylum in countries with less harsh laws.

Generally i would be totally against mandatory vaccines.

However if i believed for one minute that mandatory vaccines would end all this i would say, yep absolutely get it done but we know now it wont!!

I agree with `lots of stupid people`! Reckless you say, we have been the most compliant with the longest restrictions in Europe and probably the highest uptake of vaccines in Europe! We are really truly f**king stupid if we tolerate another round of restrictions or even entertain lockdowns in this country! The astronomical bill already (and before anybody chimes in with its about health, it is yes, but with no income no expenditure, no health service!). Our religious cult like obsession with Covid when at least efforts are being made worldwide to try and move on from it! How anyone can defend the buffoons running the country is the height of stupidity at this point:

1. Lockdowns/restrictions for so long and mixed messaging from NPHET / Government and humans do exactly what humans do! How in the name of all that's holy do we not have a proper group with complete understanding of human behavior at this point!
2. We have been in a constant state of hyper vigilance heading for the bones of 2 years now! That in itself is psychologically draining! If NPHET were any good, they would know this and should have known i.e. we should have opened in Summer but didn`t fully for the 2nd year in a row. This was the height of stupidity!
3. We have people who swallow everything that government tells them despite all the bullshit deflection tactics e.g., blame unvaccinated, pregnant women, hospitality, teens, curtain twitching at young people going to nightclubs when NPHET refused to entertain antigen testing or deal with capacity issues properly! Utter stupidity, when we have Paul Reid saying recently that increasing ICU capacity wouldn`t necessarily help! The only reason we are in restrictions or lockdowns is because our health service hasn`t the capacity and for no other reason.
4. I don`t deny Covid and am vaxxed but have despised the ultra conservative myopic almost religious like response in this country that has divided us as a people, turned us against each other, it is utterly wrong despite the funding our taxes pay the powers that be to sort out a shambolic health service.
5. We have a cohort of msm personalities who have the **** frightened out of the country, with a percentage of the population who listen to them completely, having the personalities fears constantly projected onto their audience demanding authoritarian type stuff!

An adult conversation is very long overdue at this point! If you are afraid, stay at home! If you see a crowded place and are uncomfortable, don`t go! As I said before we shouldn`t have the likes of Tony Holohan, Paul Reid at all micromanaging our lives! Get to f**k off the airwaves and sort out the health service, pay staff properly and deal with the annual pressures instead of constant bullshit deflection and blaming of the public! We are utterly stupid to be tolerating even a whiff of this nonsense at this stage after the last few years!

Its gone on too long having our lives micromanaged by government and worst of all for me NPHET and HSE (both responsible for running our dysfunctional health service!). Some of them suggesting indefinite restrictions. I am sorry I do not exist to manage my life around the HSE ability to manage itself! What a **** existence! My responsibility to the HSE ends with my tax payment!

The vaccine rollout campaign was a success story so rollout boosters in a similar fashion for anyone that wants them and lets get living normally again.

Ban NEPHET/HSE from giving any press conferences, have all their figures properly vetted by an independent group, spin free, with any pronouncements from them going through one person appointed by the government only with a singular message as needed!

RTE are similar to boards.ie so

Are you tired correcting the HSE representative's in the media also?

I'm presuming you can provide a link to the claim of 80% from a HSE official ?

FYI the 80% the OP quoted isn't accurate so Wolf was spot on to correct it, as of Monday the split was 60% vaccinated, 40% unvaccinated in hospital.

I think you misheard to be honest.

As of Monday is was a 60/40 split vaccinated/unvaccinated in the total hospital numbers with ICU disproportionally higher in the unvaccinated.

“Ireland places hospitals on war footing” is headline news of Daily Mail. Also mentions Austria and Germany.

Aren't hospitals always on a war footing. They are there to treat people and to deal with emergencies. The impression some of the unions are giving is that the nurses and doctors are useless.

Agreed. Israel is offering hope though, they’re apparently doing very well now after a successful booster roll out.

How does mandatory vaccination work? People not allowed in anywhere unless they get vaccinated? Would that really be enforced in every public setting in Austria?

One group have health conditions, the other are wilfully ignorant.

A unvaccinated fit 25 year old won’t need intensive care because of ignorance. An overweight, vaccinated 50 year old just might.