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Who's going to be the next boogeyman after the %of the population that haven't been vaccinated either die our get natural immunity, probably the parents that won't vaccinate their children I guess.

Vaccination in the general population under 50 without any co-morbities is a waste of time to be fair, given the vaccines don't afford you much protection from getting covid and transmitting it after 3 months of the 2nd dose letting your lowered aged population acquire natural immunity is the better long term strategy, given the new anti-virals coming to the market, hospitalizations and deaths in these groups will be tiny..

They have a good % of their population already boostered, they where the poster child for the vaccine working and lauded for it till it went sideways, just like in Ireland

interesting piece of data, if you look at the death rate in-vaccinated people for October/November it's extremely high, again the median age of death is 80 with a huge amount having co-morbities, all the outrage over the older age groups dying of covid seems to be just a after-thought now

Did you actually read the article ?

I have no idea as to the veracity or otherwise of the stuff in it but harping on about the 118% vaccination rate when even someone with a basic grasp of comprehension would see what was meant by it and why the figure was quoted makes you look rather silly .

Even the author calls it peculiar in his own words .

For anyone who is wondering what it's about then at least read it .

Have no real opinion on what's in it ,its rather the way some people ( on all sides of the covid stuff) dismiss out of hand anything that doesn't fit into their world view .

New variant and new levels of hysteria on the way with it....

Just what we need to sell us a new set of restrictions...

Quite clear now that life for theforseable will be anything but normal ….vacines are a help with serious illness and cutting hospital nos but there effictivness against its spread appear low …new variants emerging etc …our biggest issue is nephet ,the govt and the constant mixed messages ,slow reaction and there handling of our health service

Looks like people are getting covid fatigue at this stage.

Notice a lot less doing the hand sanitising thing in supermarkets recently.

Our local pubs are back to February 2020 since the summer ie walk in the door ,sit at the bar ,no masks, certs etc even mentioned .It is actually a topic that rarely even crops up at this stage and much of the clientele would be in the higher risk category with age .

Attended a wedding recently and the hotel never looked for any blue cards or movement permits .Masks in the lobby ok and you were supposed to wear one when going to the bar but that kinda died after a few hours .

Covid certs are only required to get into pubs, restaurants, cinemas and nursing homes afaik, it doesn’t sound right that DKIT had the right to refuse entry to an open night.

The new variant is twice as transmissable as delta so we'll have to be more careful

Some Previous variants of concern have come to nothing so hopefully this one will be the same.

I read where it already accounts for 90% of infections in the area where it was discovered which would be worrying. Having already spread to a number of countries including Belgium.

You better put that mask back on so !!!!!!!

seeiously tho I’m no Covid freak nor someone who thinks about it very often but wearing a mask ,sanitising hands etc is just something I do now and will continue to do so ….got vaccinated recently due to certain circumstances and the fact u can’t go too many places without the cert ….I still believe masks sanitising etc gives me better protection against getting it …..but in likelihood I do get it vacine will hopefully stop me getting v sick or ending up in hospital ….

im back going out for something to eat ,a pint ,going for a coffee etc ,a lad has to live too ,way too many are living in fear of this ,our shambles of a govt ,nephet and the media have the shite frightened out of the country .tv ,radio ,internet it’s constant Covid depression …be great have a blanket ban on anything Covid related for a bit

By the time they actually reformulate the vaccine it will be too late. 100 days to start producing it, then the backlog of actually getting it out... we'll be on to a new variant by then and start the process all over again, while presumably living under more restrictions being told just another few weeks and we'll be on top of it and heading back to normality...

There is still no logical way out of the hysteria that we have been trapped in if we are to be consistent with the messaging put out by the experts in that time.

The only way is to grow a pair of balls and get on with life but so many people are so mentally scarred, they will need serious therapy for them to ever get them back to normality.

It's simply not possible to get on top of this.

The harder you push against it, the more instability is created.

Balance is what's needed and that isn't achieved by heavy restrictions, high vaccine coverage and use of antibody treatments.

Allowing broad based immunity and accepting that a small minority will die is (and has always been) the best way forward.

We have done more harm than good over the past two years, the worst is still ahead of us...

The vaccines in fairness bought time, re older people dying of the virus/underlying health conditions , but now we are seeing it wane, if and its a big if the new variant gets around the vaccine, we will expirance crazy high death rates in the most vunrelable age/health wise, it will hit us like a tsunami though, as compared to a country like Sweden/ areas in America like florida, that have had higher death /infection rates all along but it was manageable and now means a good proportion of the population has natural immunity, so leaves them now heading into the next few weeks/months not having to deal with the same scale of infections and demands placed on the healthcare system compared to Ireland

Assume most unvaccinated are younger with no known existing health issues

Because it ticks a box.

There never was any other basis to justify it and plenty of perfectly valid reasons not to vaccinate the non vulnerable.