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

Covid again leading the RTE 6/1. We are fast into a country with a 24hr media cycle and yellow bar going across the screen. Wouldn't be to hard to put a positive spin on things. If you are under a certain age regardless of vaccination status you are extremely unlikely to be seriously ill with Covid. Release the stats of those in ICU who haven't been vaccinated. I for one would like to see the age profile and underlying conditions etc.

These questions need to be asked by the media and need to be answered by NPHET and the CMO. No point in all of us being told to hide away when it doesn't impact the vast majority on folks. That was all well and good when we thought in 2020 these restrictions we only temporary. Its just not a good enough approach anymore.

I don't know. Go down the route of working in healthcare and see if you can do it quicker.

Heard Catherine Motherway a few times this week(including today) in the media berating about how bad things are and giving a sermon about its up to the public to ensure the hospitals are not over run. Not once would she mention how bad our health service is. If things are as bad as she says how come she has so much time to be in the limelight?

I heard her on Newstalk this morning and she did indeed mention that the health service is sub-standard. The reason she has time to be on the airways is that she is hoping that people who hear her will listen and act accordingly (thus taking some of the burden off herself and her colleagues) rather than be a big, tough internet commentator giving out about people in the health service talking about how difficult things are at the minute.

And how many people are listening to her anymore? Their approach is not working so why do they keep persisting,How many young people who were out socialising last night turned on Newstalk this morning? If she is trying to reach out to the public then imo going on the airwaves on a Sunday morning on a current affairs programme is going to achieve absolutely nothing

My remaining parent was hospitalised today (not Covid, thankfully).

None of us allowed to visit, due to the current restrictions, but my sibling did hear that two people in this hospital died of Covid in the last day.

57 and 42 years of age, no underlying conditions, both unvaccinated.

If you haven't had your vaccine, please get it. If not for others, for yourself.

Tonight two families are grieving a loss that was avoidable.

I probably could but Paul 400k a year Reid is paid to do that job already. I don’t think it is too much to ask that our health service delivers the booster vaccines it says are needed to protect that same health service. Hard to believe that people seem to excuse the (principally management) failings of our health service.

Better thinking than yours anyway, let me guess you want to jump in to a circuit breaker or some sort of restricted living to stop this yeah?

Your guess is wrong.

It's a hospital so people will be dying fairly regularly I'd imagine of many causes, whether they're vaccinated or not.

Hope your parent gets well soon.

They exceed capacity every winter. They have surge capacity (plus arrangements with the private hospitals) and will cut back on electives over the next few weeks.