Relaxation of Restrictions, Part XII *Read OP For Mod Warnings*

"Sure just stay at home and watch netflix and let the rest of us get on with our lives, its not that hard, just hide away."

You forgot to ask him do not vote any election too...

571 people with covid-19 recorded in our hospitals at 8am this morning, down 27 on yesterday, which was down 13 from the day before and down about 20 the day before that

That man looks like a fool before he talks but there are positive signs

Yes, seriously. You think this will go on forever? Restrictions will ease and then disappear eventually. They might get stricter first though.

Leo barely mentioned hospital numbers, talked about numbers plateauing whilst in the same breath said it was too early to know, meanwhile hours later another near 5k cases.

Paschal just rambled on and basically said nothing, always amazed me, the ability of Paschal to do a 30 minute interview and say pretty much nothing, I've already forgotten what he said

"one of the really weird things of this whole thing , is that NPHET have a public platform at all. They aren't public representatives but sadly appear to weld unholy amounts of power ."

This has been one of the biggest problems of Ireland's whole covid response. NPHET are meant to be advising the government. In private briefings.

The first time a member of NPHET decided to brief the press that they disagreed with government policy, or decided to brief the press on what policies they personally felt were needed, they should have been fired. Instead we've reached a situation where our Taoiseach and government are deathly afraid of what NPHET will say to the press, and are completely under their thumb. Which is completely backwards.

Imagine if government advisors in other areas constantly gave press briefings that contradicted government policy? Or started going public announcing new policy they were asking for, in order to pressure the government.. they wouldn't last a day. Because its impossible to govern a country that way, it hands over all power to the advisor instead of the elected representative.

Daily case numbers are fairly irrelivant as the link between them and hospital numbers is too hard to calculate, if they go down then great but if they don't then don't get worried

Because of vaccination, hospital and ICU numbers are the ones to watch. Hospital numbers are showing early signs of promise while ICU was 126 yesterday, down 6 on the day before, today's don't get released until 11:30 but they probably won't start dropping until hospitals have dropped consistently for about a week or 2

Bear in mind the weekend effect as well means people don't get discharged until Monday or Tuesday so weekend hospital numbers can be misleading

I hear you , just completely bamboozled at this stage,

Just listened to Claire Byrne, interview with HSE head of vacinne roll out, unless I heard incorrectly the Pfizer Vacinne to be used for children is actually slightly different and obviously smaller does, this is surely going to raise more questions for parents.

Did I hear this correctly, it literally just slipped out during the interview.

considering pregnant women can't take a host of over the counter painkillers and other stuff - anybody who is critical of a pregnant woman for not taking this new vaccine needs their head examined.

no matter what they say - and the media and TDs say a lot - but the HSE themselves aren't stating that the vaccines are safe as a fact.

HSE website

It's a nice get out of jail card.

would you bet your kids future and development on that? I wouldn't .

The truth is none of the kids whose mothers were vaccinated in the womb have reached 1 year old yet. Nobody knows what the impact is on their milestone and won't for years to come. that's the nature of this stuff

no matter who says otherwise.

That isn't to say the vaccine aren't safe - it's to say we dont know and I wouldn't bet my kids future on that.

1/3 dose compared to the adult one (10 vs 30 microgram) it also uses a different buffer to increase stability to make it easier to store.

Kingston Mills, normally quite subdued, coherent and sensible is Alarmed by this new variant, shocked were his words, A return to mandatory Quarantine now required.

Same vaccine, just a different buffer used.

Same buffer that's been used in other vaccines for years. Just incase you think it's a new thing.

Thank you, the way it came out in the interview appeared to suggest a different Vacinne, Claire jumped on it etc , hence my own confusion

Unless she was speaking with somebody from NIAC, the EMA, BioNtech or Pfizer I would take everything said with a pinch of salt

But even if it was a different formula, it's still approved by the EMA and various other regulators around the world so there's nothing to worry about

Claire Byrne the media darling who is constantly screaming for new restrictions whenever cases rise, told to wait and see regarding the new "variant" but god no, lets shut down everything. Guarantee if she was told they were cutting back on her radio/tv time due to lack of funds with nobody caring anymore she would change the tune quickly