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

Tony’s ego will love that, obviously restrictions work, particularly reducing hospitality opening hours. Or maybe, just maybe, its just the ebb and flow of the virus, weren't we told we were 4 weeks behind UK.

Also if they had of got a handle on schools, we wouldn't be seeing the large number of cases but hey, we all know its not the schools.

Just a thought that I had there looking at boards. The Covid thread seems to be slow today and the storm threads seem to be in full flow. RTE is leading with the storm also.

Now this is obviously correct as we have a storm brewing and its in the national interest but in my mind it also shows how much social media etc can play apart in hysteria these days. We jump from one to the other if something bad is happening in Belgium or any other country it may as well be happening here.

It’s very hard to get a calm rational conversation these days every thing is so intense.

social media has its good points and it’s bad points I personally find no point in debating or getting into conversations with people you cant see. Over the last two years a lot of “experts” have popped up even on boards ( by the way there are also some very thrust worthy and good sources of info on boards )that can produce facts figures from all over the world etc a lot of it copied and pasted.

I always wonder why the experts that you see on the morning shows and radio etc aren’t actually been asked by the government for their inputs? Why are they just working the media circuit🤷.

Its clear that without social media this virus would have been treated differently.

Social media gives people without a voice a voice which is good but it also allows the mob to shout down people anonymously. Take the example that anyone who suggested we cocoon the elderly and vulnerable to shield them from society was met with you can’t segregate people no matter what and we are all in this together. Now people have no problem segregating and shaming the unvaccinated, kids from school etc.

I also think there is a large cohort of people just getting on with it and loving their lives they are the people you don’t hear from.

What’s even worse is they are warning of more deadly viruses in the future so what will we do then.

I saw on Sky earlier that the UK don't have anyone in hospital with the Omicron variant.

Did you read the whole sentence?? It's a load of nonsense yet this is the Philip Nolan rubbish that the government is making decisions on that affects thousands of people's livelihoods. You're correct we don't know yet, but Nolan is running with the close to worst case scenario and predicting "very high demand for hospital and critical care". #FollowingTheScience

He's still hyping up Omicron at the moment but he is now playing the "Omicron wave hasn't hit hospitals yet" card.

Then Sajid Javid was lying to parliament. Maybe Omicron will become an issue but it doesn't seem to be one at the moment.

Ah yes, misread date on graph!

The point is to "make news".

Interview someone, ask them loaded questions (Is it possible we could see an even worse pandemic in the next century?) and then misrepresent their answers to get a clickbaity article. Thats how journalism works nowadays

The point of the statement is, to use your examples, that countries at high risk of tsunamis invest in flood defences. Countries in earthquake zones invest in mitigation measures. And so forth.

The entire world is in a "pandemic risk zone" if you want to think of it that way, and we should therefore remember what had to be done this time, build on it, invest more in it, so that when the next one comes along we are better prepared and don't have to engage in rolling lockdowns and travel bans, and mandatory vaccinations, in order to allow life to keep moving forward while we deal with the issue.

Countries that experience natural disasters on a regular basis, take note of what failed each time and invest to avoid making those same mistakes the next time. This is what the world needs to do.

Edit: I would also agree that for some of the media, the point of the article is to sensationalise the "more deadly virus" bit, while if you actually read what she said, that's not the point at all.

This type of thinking keeps coming back around, there's 2 possibilities here:

• The number in ICU unvaccinated is being inflated so that NPHET and the government can keep the COVID pass in use
• There is still an issue with the number of unvaccinated in ICU that means that NPHET and the government has to keep the COVID pass in use

If the former, you need to also come up with reasons the government (and governments across Europe and in the UK) want to do this, they have access to all the data and are reporting the reasons why and implementing the policy.

Otherwise it goes around and around in a "with COVID or for COVID" circular argument.