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

I don't know if there is but there is a huge difference in clinical mental health issues and celebrity inspired "issues" which amount little more than "I don't like this"

A few questions for the boardsies:

1. Is there somewhere I can find figures on where recent outbreaks have occurred - i.e. in hospitality, gyms, household, work, whatever? I ask because I heard on the radio someone saying there was no transmission of covid recorded in pubs over the past three weeks. I caught covid in a pub three weeks ago, but was never asked either online or over the phone where I may have got it from.
2. I am hoping to go to the UK on the 27th, returning on 2nd January. I know I need a professionally administered antigen test within 48 hours of returning. The only places doing them are certain pharmacies, like some Boots/Lloyds etc, I'm sort of scuppered as so many pharmacies are not doing them on New Years Eve/New Years Day, and we will be driving for 8 hours back to the boat on Sunday 2 January. If anyone knows anywhere in Cornwall that will be doing "fit to fly" antigen tests on 31 Dec/1 Jan I'd love to know where. Even somewhere in Bristol or Cardiff that might do them on 2 January would be helpful.
3. I'm worried that a "professionally administered" antigen test will be more sensitive than a home taken antigen test and, similar to a PCR test, might lead to the some vestiges of my infection three weeks ago showing up in the results. How sensitive are the antigen test carried out in pharmacies? Am I going to be left in a situation where we have to drive to Scotland and get the boat to Belfast in order to get home? Should I just bloody cancel the holiday (for the 4th time)?

Thanks!

We have had 660K cases. Assuming a reasonable confirmed case to undetected infection ratio of one to ten, wouldn't most of us have had it by now?

The NLF suspended their intensive testing regime because most of the positive cases (85%) simply weren't sick. These cases would rarely detected be in the wider community because asymptomatic people don't generally present for a test.

No, that isn't what you said. It directly contradicts what you said, you don't seem to register this?

To state that "The only increase in transmission they find is from unvacc -> unvacc" is simply untrue. It is not stated in the linked article, it is your misunderstanding of the article.

It's not a marginal difference. If you were vaccinated you were 63% less likely to pass on infection to an unvaccinated person you were living with than if you were unvaccinated. Do you realise what that means?

It's completely relevant as to why governments across Europe don't want unvaccinated mingling in high risk environments, and is the basis for covid pass systems. Whether it is 10% here or 30% in other countries, the unvaccinated are having a disproportionate impact on hospitals. So state they are not relevant is utterly without foundation no matter how many times you repeat it.

Sorry if this is the wrong forum to ask - are many of ye keeping a low profile until Christmas day? I've cancelled a few things bar a lunch with the brother before Christmas, feels really sad to be doing it.

Tell your neighbours to run for the hills.

That's going against all the data from SA, and Denmark. Isn't there something fishy about those Imperial reports anyway?

Equally introducing a 5 day quarantine for triple vaxxed close contacts. We will be lucky if any healthcare staff can go back to work in January.

Again, absolutely no basis, just an arbitrary decision to keep doctors and nurses out for the best part of a week every time theyre in contact with a positive person (which will be often given they work in hospitals)

According to the article

"The company last year received ‘other operating income’ of €917,093."

This would be the EWSS, CRSS, Government re-start grants, Failte Ireland grants and any other non-revenue income for the period. This was to the end of January 2021. You can be sure that the number has doubled since then as they would have had full trade in the 6 weeks up to Covid hitting.

Manageable for them . Maybe Boris was right again . Or to word correctly. Maybe he will turn out right rolling the dice on something so serious for his own political survival. Sometimes it's better to be lucky ..