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

I’m not sure if they’re all done at test centres but you can get antigen tested at test centres.

Hope you're feeling better. Can't argue with your logic. I think they've gotten an awful lot wrong and Holohan irritates me terribly because I think he's a very arrogant man on a bit of an ego trip. But I guess I can't dismiss them entirely - they know far more about diseases of this nature than I do. I see a lot of posters on here drawing their own conclusions on what "should be done" with absolute certainty when they know as much about infectious diseases as me - which is the square root of f**k all.

Just looking at another incompetent failure of our government in protecting people regarding our shambolic approach to antigen testing.

There is no guidance on if you are a close contact to someone who is positive on an antigen but has no symptoms. This probably makes up a huge number of people who are currently pre symptomatic and cant get a pcr.

Many of these people are being forced to come into work by unscrupulous employers and further facilitating the spread.

This guidance needs to be updated urgently.

got the moderna booster yesterday!! It’s rightfully fûcked me up!! Glad to have got it done though

Exactly. You can disagree with it all you like but there was logic behind what they were trying to do with that rule. Doesn't mean the logic was right but it wasn't just something they pulled out of thin air.

The guidance is going to have be, "do an antigen test every day before you leave for work and do not attend if it's positive".

Having people isolate because they're a close contact of a positive antigen test will not be sustainable at these numbers.

Any without a better sick pay process, people will just go into work anyway.

Practically it should be don't go to work if you have any symptoms.

Then make that some form of law and not guidance or advice.

If you're asking someone with a runny nose or a cough and nothing else to choose between putting food on the table or stay home, they'll choose the former.

Not everyone has sick pay, or ability to take time off easy. If the government don't want to legislate for it (they've talked about but no chance it'll happen) then feck off with the advice.

Some people have "symptoms" for months on end though. Fair enough if you have a fever or a change of taste/smell or sudden breathing issues but when they are telling people that any cold/flu symptoms are covid then how can that work? Some people technically have symptoms from october till may.

This is something that the powers that be haven't addressed at all throughout this whole thing.

The numbers reported officially yesterday where the same as the swab data. PCR tests are swamped so under-reported cases anyway.

Media reports in the last 24 hours: -

FDA: Rapid Antigen Tests May Be Less Effective at Detecting Omicron

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You could be right .Widespread utilization of daily antigen tests might be the only way we can keep society functioning at this stage.

Moving to self-antigen testing would be great, as it would mean an end to the daily numbers media freak out.

Also agree with the poster about symptoms being all winter long; I had a cold last month that's hanging around, have done regular antigen and one PCR and all negative.

I just got my booster today though, which is good news!

If it's worth anything. I have family who worked in hospitality during the Summer. Some of her former work colleagues have had to isolate as close contacts and two contracted CoViD-19 because a wedding party didn't inform them until after their wedding reception that they had tested positive for CoViD-19. I'm sure it's not the only case.

Trusting the science doesn't mean trusting scientists with agendas and hubris.

Do lockdowns and Holohan's advice on closing certain quarters of the economy and society even count as science?

I'd love to know what their game is. I'd say the biggest one is not wanting to back down and a bit of a hero complex, Holohan and co. love the mainstream fawning over them and now do not want to upset that image.