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

How does he know he has Omicron?

We will see a lot more cases, perhaps massive numbers, but whether we get overrun remains to be seen but you really wouldn't trust a NPHET model projection to tell you that. That said their optimistic model or the one anywhere close to reality has hospitals at 1,000 at worst and ICU topping out at 200. The latter would cause a lot of problems to the system but NPHET model relationships to hospital numbers is a complete fiction.

I love the way the government and NPHET seem to definitively now know how bad things are going to get and are fairly sure about that fact when one week ago they were talking about taking a sensible approach and opening past 12 for New Years.

The tanaiste last night spoofing yesterday evening about how we are going to break all records and there are going to be very dark days in January...when last **** week he said no more restrictions! Talking to us like we are children and he knows the consequences of whats coming and us poor souls need to be informed. They have no idea what's coming, no more than anyone does!

Like this thing of they were shocked by the modelling and this and that is going to happen yet the models have been consistently wrong!! We were supposed to have 500 in ICU at this stage.

The cases will very likely increase a lot, based on Denmark and the UK, but the rest on hospitals is more very loose and probably wrong guesswork. The problem here is that cases are the be all and end all for the government especially when they are linked to another projected health system collapse.

Yeah I've absolutely no doubt about the cases..but like you said..the assertions on hospitals and deaths is guessing. But the way they spoke last night with such authority that this is definitely going to happen yet they absolutely don't know would drive you mad.

The whole post is waffle but

That is right up there with one of the stupidest things I've read in a long time.

The ones who have suffered hardship are not the ones afraid of Covid.

Those petrified of covid and living in their attics reading books and doing video calls should not consider themselves brave.

An anecdotal story that is nothing short of unbelievable. There is 39 confirmed cases of omicron in Ireland.

Your friend had about a one in a million chance of becoming a confirmed omicron case on that day. Some people are really unlucky.

The Tánaiste is a bluffer alright who can't resist a microphone. A few weeks ago he wasn't questioning the models and playing down the problem, but now it's armageddon. Hard to know what to believe.

Pat Leady described their predictions as being "drunkenly inaccurate" in the IT but it's just not the time to be challenging them and the government needs to look like they know what they are doing, to the nation.

good chance by this evening. But no guarantees.

Good article by Daniel McConnell, says it as it is and how most of us are feeling.

At last journalists are questioning the decisions made by Goverment

Oh it’s surely obvious now to everyone that nothing is ever going to enough for the like of NPHET. It literally doesn’t matter what we do, it will never be enough. People surely do realise that now. We could have every man, woman and child vaccinated and it’s still won’t be enough. They’ve effectively turned an effective vaccine into the ultimate “snake oil” ironically.

Other countries look at it differently or to be more specific aim to live with this as much as possible. If they can open up fully then they will for as long as they can and if they need to impose more restrictions then they will, this is literally living with covid, this is NOT the view of NPHET when it comes to living with covid and won’t be until the power is stripped from them or we get someone to actually run the country.

Low case numbers and really low hospital and icu numbers is a concerning situation, high case numbers and high hospital and icu numbers is a concerning situation, it literally does not matter.

It’s a bit like being stuck at home with the kids on wet day and they are mad to play outside, so the minute it stops raining ye send them out, mitigate by giving them the wellies and the jacket.

When it comes to COVID that’s what other countries do, go out when the rain stops but take those few precautions. In Ireland we keep staring out the window cos the weatherman said it might rain again tomorrow!

Modelling used to justify Sajid Javid’s claim that there were 200,000 omicron infections a day has been abandoned by health officials.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/12/17/sajid-javids-200000-daily-omicron-cases-claim-no-longer-valid/

It’s a parable.