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

Jesus don't say that, the anti vaxxers will have a field day.

Just tell them it's a syringe of the "isolated natural virus" and they'll be falling over themselves to get it (with their Ivermectin protection of course).

What's the deal with reinfection?

My family (2+4) all tested positive in early November. At the time just me, my wife and oldest child were "sick" all very minor symptoms.

Now my 6 yo daughter is home from school because she has a very aggresive sounding cough and a high temperature. When she had Covid last month she was asymptomatic.

Am I supposed to get another test for her here? Or is it deemed unnecessary due to such a recent infection?

I had Covid twice, but the first time was March 2020 so a big time gap there..

Thanks.

Why is everybody that is against vaccination so badly treated. I get the militant anti vaccination groups who are against any type of vaccination but their in every walk of life.But what about people who have had issues previously with vaccinations. Wasn’t there a case settled a couple of months ago in relation to swine flu vaccination and sleep disorders or something like that I mean I could understand hesitation from those people and any memebers of their family of social circles. There have been issues with vaccinations before this can’t just be ignored by people who were effected at the time. I think it’s really poor of people to just ignore those peoples wishes.

I’m personally of the opinion that this is in enough arms now to know if we will have any serious side effects and am happy to get the booster when the time comes but I’d like it to be my choice not just because I can’t do anything without it. I also think that if we can get large numbers of adults and kids to volunteer to be vaccinated then leave the others to their own choices. Surely it won’t be that big a number over all Ireland isn’t hugely anti vaccination it’s more about the choice element I think people have a problem with.

I get if you want to travel abroad get vaccinated we have been doing that for years in certain countries so again it a choice but not letting people do things in their own country I think is a step to far.

Because the official line is that vaccines are 100% safe and anyone who experiences otherwise is obviously antivax. No one wants to hear it, and they’ll relish when March comes around and everyone who had an adverse reaction is barred from society. I don’t mind being barred, I don’t want be around anyone who thinks this is acceptable.

Like you, I may well be misremembering, but I do have a vague recollection going back to when delta arrived on the scene, of there being different protocols when you were a close contact of a confirmed variant of concern rather than "normal" (at the time) COVID. Can't remember the exact details tbh but it was definitely a stricter regime. They may well have dropped them since delta became dominant.

I stress I haven't read back through all the posts to get to what this current story on here is about, so that may be completely irrelevant.

But it doesn’t have to be as black and white as that. I know a lot of people who trust any type of medicine if it makes them better and far play to them. I know some people who won’t take so much as an aspirin unless they are at deaths door and that’s ok to. The first group far out way the second so why not just let the people decide. The lines outside the vaccination centres show that Ireland will have probably as big a % of vaccinations without the need to bring in certs etc which can segregate people especially compared to other countries in Europe.

How many times have ye had covid??

Oh I agree with you 100%, I wish we could go back to a less polarised society.

Dr Holohan on Morning Ireland. Was delivering a reasonable enough message but very pessimistic & encouraging limited social contacts which is to be expected from him. But the presenter’s line of questions were basically:

• Why are we not in lockdown?
• When is Ireland going into lockdown?
• When are more restrictions coming in?

Dr Holohan reassuring the people of Ireland - ‘We are not going away for Christmas’, NPHET will be reviewing the data on a day by day basis.

Huh. Censored words are shortened to four letters now. Iirc, old boards would have given "****ing"?

Nah, the "dry cough" thing still remains, they just updated it to be "usually a dry cough, but not always". The HSE still list a "dry cough" as one of the most common symptoms. So if you have a productive cough, then by process of elimination you would rank covid lower on the list of possibilities than something else.

I agree that it's not scientific, I never said it was. By the same token we don't send the kids into school or bring them into other people houses because we think it's "probably not covid".

We've done enough PCR and antigen tests over the last 8 weeks that I would bet my house that we've haven't had it ... in the last 8 weeks. No idea about the year and half before that!

Maybe this is stupid but is it possible that there was a variant prior to the ‘original’ Covid 19 version when we locked things down in March 2020. I had a nasty virus back in November 2019 which took a long time to recover from which did have a lot of the Covid symptoms. Probably a stupid thought but wondering nonetheless.

There's been a lot of discussion about that nasty dose (chest infection?) that hit (and hit me and the OH) in November 2019 but it didn't have the loss of taste\smell or send people to hospital in larger numbers... I had gotten flu jab that year, could have been a flu variant that wasn't in the jab I suppose. It seemed to hit middle aged people hard, elderly not especially, so maybe it had a precursor in the 50s and 60s.