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

Another poster above said that Delta wasn't even named this time last year. 😀

Ah it's a bit like how Covid was likely here late 2019 too and yet there weren't people dying on the streets, swamping the hospitals (no more than usual for this time of year) and life went on ACTUALLY normally despite the sniffles and normal illness this time of year. Yes some people died of course which is sad but also normal and not unexpected in the vulnerable cohorts

It's only when we gave it a name that the panicking started.. and even despite that, it very quickly became clear that most of our population was at little to no real risk from it, but yet for whatever reason (actually several reasons as per my last post) the Government and HSE never moved on from that March 2020 approach.

I'd pay a premium to avoid 'spoons TBH!

That was Alpha, or the Kent variant as it was known back then.

I actually think the same that covid was here in 2019. I remember this time 2019 being floored by a chest infection as the Dr diagnosed it then again 6 weeks later I was hit again and I remember asking the Dr at the time about covid and how could i tell the difference if the symptoms are the same as other respiratory illnesses and he was saying you would have to get tested. Roll on this year and I am suffering with my breathing and it was found that I have an infection on my lung that is not going away and the Dr asked if I have had covid. Really think it was covid back in 2019 start of 2020. Any pcr test, blood test or antigen test have all been negative for covid.

Should the pubs close if this variant will spread as easy as they say or stay open like the government have used the schools to spread it?

It will be in every house with a school going age child by the middle of January so they are going to have to change rules on Isolation etc if the economy is going to able to function in any way.

Any bets on what time the 'it is believed many government minsiters are shocked at the nphet projections' tweets will start.

Got to keep ramping up that fear.

Can you share source on that please and thank you

If thats true, it really puts all this into perspective as a complete mass hysteria over nothing - talk of "tidal waves" and omicron "tsunamis" will likely not materialise if that is the case.

I honestly can't tell anymore if some of these posts are genuine or just satire at this point.

But assuming it's sincere, what exactly are you worried about particularly? This sounds like the same stuff we heard last year - except 12 months on we have almost the entire population vaccinated. Also initial signs are that the "dangerous new variant" is actually LESS dangerous than the others (which aren't actually that dangerous to the majority as it turns out)

So is/was vaccination pointless then?

In the week of 23rd October to 30th October 27 people were admitted to ICU with 6 of those unvaccinated.

We can all pick specific dates to back up a point.

Risk of ending up in ICU is not equal to the risk of being hospitalised.

Current estimated risk (based on trend over a recent month) of being in hospital and positive for Covid is 3 times more for someone unvaccinated than someone vaccinated- and again it’s very much skewed towards older age groups.

You are not 12 times more likely to be hospitalised if you are unvaccinated- that’s complete nonsense.