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

The risk of COVID will occur with every exposure to the virus, it's not a "one and done" either. The flu vaccine is rolled out yearly, SARS-COV2 vaccines will probably follow the same pattern for general population (probably aimed at getting ~50% vaxxed) and potentially more often in vulnerable groups and elderly (who will often be on recurring medicines anyway).

Who has ever said anything about twice yearly vaccination?

also yes everyone will catch covid in the same way everyone has caught a cold or the flu.

FWIW I didn't hold my childrens' hands whilst they got vaccinated because none of us are scared of needles.

Market research tends not to be that detailed and the severe warnings over the last week or so have really amped up anxiety levels. One positive from that is the 60% drop in contacts, no bad thing anyway.

Show me proof of all the children in Ireland right now suffering from myocarditis post Covid infection, where are these figures? So quick to accuse me of lying and dismiss. Another poster who’s a big fan of the totalitarian path Ireland is heading down and dismisses any debate on it.

In the last month or so Varadkar, Government and media have come out stating:

1. There should be separate ‘police’ checking if people have Covid Certs when socialising.
2. All of the current problems here are due to the unvaccinated - repeated ad nauseam daily by all parties. Low ICU capacity? Unvaccinated. Crap hospitals overflowing with patients - unvaccinated. Current increase in NON-COVID mortality? Unvaccinated. Despite the fact most unvaccinated are actually younger healthy people unaffected by Covid.
3. Goes on CNN blaming 8% of an adult population for our crap health service. Where is the acknowledgement of the 92% who came forward? Or better yet their extra capacity for the health service if it’s so badly needed? They spent 40 billion keeping Ireland closed. The fact Ireland stayed closed ridiculously long for almost the full half of 2021 and wasted billions seemed to have slipped his mind also.
4. Varadkar peddling boosters for the whole adult population early on without any scientific data to back it up. Israel? Where they’re already talking about booster no. 4? I’m not opposed to boosters for older and vulnerable. I’m most certainly opposed to forced / coerced boosters for all.
5. Cheerleading media having segments on Claire Byrne and other shows about how to ostracise people from society - should they be allowed to buy food, should they be forced into it?
6. Now they’re after the children and soon babies also - using tiny trials and basing all side effects on adult studies.
7. International data from Gibraltar suggest these vaccines are not doing what Pfizer claimed - they’ve just cancelled Christmas despite 100% vaccination rate. England has no vaccine pass - they’re doing well. Sweden also. Florida has an older population and yet isn’t in trouble. I thought we were supposed to be following international best practices?

I imagine it is the fact that the vaccines were rolled out this year and we are already lining people up for their third jab, along with all the people talking about vaccine effectiveness waning after 6 months.

That is probably why twice yearly vaccination can be mentioned.

Its just a 2 tier society, no big deal.

Standard practice at current infection rates where space is limited in GP offices. Anyone attending with symptoms is asked to wait outside. I'd say your colleague embellished the "unvaccinated" bit.

Our GP put a line of chairs on the path and is doing boosters doses out there rather than bring everyone into a crammed waiting room.

It’s a novel virus and a new vaccine. There is nothing to suggest yet that it will need twice yearly jabs - just people making assumptions.

We are asked to wait in car if we have one and I’m totally happy with that. Don’t want to be picking up any bugs in packed waiting rooms. He did that even before covid for people with respiratory symptoms in flu season.

Yeah room for 4 in my GPs waiting room now so they ask you to wait in the car until your appointment time then come in and take a seat if they're running late.

If I wasn't driving down then I'd probably be waiting on the street as well

The pedantry is amusing Stephen

They've cancelled any official Christmas celebration parties and advised people not to hold gatherings.

I would struggle to see how anyone doesn't see the significance of that move in a country with a 99% vaccine uptake

You know what Fintan, take it up with Gibraltar, DM the man in charge if you want, I'm sure Mr Picardo will be delighted to hear your insight into his country, I'm not really bothered about Gibraltar though, but where something needs to be called out it gets called out. Call it whatever you want

Hopefully we continue to see steady increase in hospital discharges and someone in Government has the balls to take on NPHET. What our CMO done yesterday was appalling. He doesn't seem to care about the worry he puts on people with fabricated numbers. Even if the numbers he came up with were correct the way he went about putting out that tweet was unacceptable from a PR point of view. I really think daily numbers should be stopped at this point and people let get on with their lives abiding by the restrictions of the day. We really don't need someone like the CMO dictating to us anymore. He has lost us.

On the subject of Tony & his inflated hospitalisation maths.

I take it he means out of every 1000 people who get Covid & not just the 400 of those thousand we pick up on the PCR test centres.

Remember MM & the 40:60 split, I take it that maths comes from somewhere.

Perhaps it's based on how many of the hospitalised actually registered a positive PCR 2 weeks previous.

It's a theory but makes more sense of Tony's figures.