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

Scraping the bottom of the barrel for something to complain about there..

I don’t need to design a referendum question, the referendum shouldn’t come until there’s a general election. I don’t think the current Government have a mandate for their policies beyond what they termed was the ‘public health emergency’.

There is no mandate for the current Certs domestically based on such a mild strain as Omicron that nearly all of the population have or will have caught shortly. Some may not have been able to get pcrs or recovery certs or boosted as they caught the virus recently. NPHET’s solution to this is ‘get the booster in 3 months’ - where is the science for that. They’ve recovered from the virus the booster (for the original strain) doesn’t give full protection from. In many cases the virus is far milder than the effects many had from the booster.

The public health emergency is all but over for now. People are buying themselves a few months of societal participation with a booster or recovery cert, that is a very big change to how the country is run. I would follow the election & any party supporting Covid Certs for societal participation would not get my vote, there is no science behind them. If that means I vote for different parties than usual, that’s what I’ll do.

They haven't been updating the lea data, it also says confirmed cases in the app, i presume that they need to reword that if including antigen results.

So true. Running out of things to moan about.

Let’s be honest publishing daily case numbers is nothing but covid theatre at this stage.

Serves no purpose whatsoever

Interesting story in the business post! Covid to become like the common cold

And there it is. 965 in hospital, compared to 984 last Sunday. Extraordinary to think that with probably more than 1 million (maybe even 2 million) infections in this wave, we peaked with barely over 1000 in hospital, one third of whom did not require treatment for Covid. If we went completely back to normal tomorrow, with zero restrictions, we'd still be grand. With the protection of vaccines, Omicron just isn't a threat.

It would be great to see some leadership in speeding up the removal of restrictions which are obviously pointless at this stage,it would probably be of benefit if more people caught this mild version while it is common here rather than waiting for a different variant to circle around in a years time without the immune system advantage of having previously had Covid, i won't hold my breath though.

The "process" requires that NPHET meet and deliberate, letter leaks and then likely we have another 5 days to an official government position. Coordination has never been a key part of it! Even so, any sectors benefitting from it need a little bit of notice to change things around.

Some posters are mentioning that us anti restrictions people are clutching at straws and to stop moaning about the restrictions that are in place and that they are not that bad.

I will continue to argue, discuss and debate with people that the restrictions must end and must end immediately. Until this happens and our freedoms are restored, then I will continue with my objection to this Ireland we currently are living in.

The restrictions don’t work. The masks don’t work. The vaccines don’t stop the spread (see our case numbers since Omicron started). Covid certs don’t work. Announcing case numbers day in and day out scaring people is wrong.

If you think that wearing a mask is keeping you safe, please keep doing it. Wear it in the place you work or on the bus. I won’t be.

Every second that these restrictions remain in place, we are unnecessarily adding to our massive debt pile that will cost us for the rest of our lives. Covid is not an emergency or even a problem anymore. We have the data, the science, the experience. It’s time to move on.

We have real crises right in front of our eyes to deal with such as poverty, violence on our streets and in homes, housing and the environment.

It not that you are complaining about current restrictions, it's that since it looks like they are coming to an end, you are clutching at straws for something to give out about, your post is a perfect example 🤣 thanks for that! Not sure how you didn't realise it!

Im not pro restrictions either but it's funny to see your stand point shifting when you haven't anything to get worked up about.

Of course your rebuttal will mention 'freedoms', 'oh it's funny is it, how funny is....etc.'

Is the final sentence a list of your next projects to get angry about?

Can you read properly?

How did you manage to get that the poster is not complaining about current restrictions?

When restrictions do come to an end then it'll shift to endless dull whining about how much it cost, "the psychological damage that's been done will last for generations", blaming virtually every ill of society for the next decade on COVID. In six months time they'll see someone wearing a mask in public and use that for a rant about Ireland and sheep and mental damage.

The anti-everything crew see the end of this coming and are upset that they're losing the opportunity to say, "I told you so". They were expecting restrictions to be permanent, or for a revolution to take place. As neither are set to happen they need to start sandbagging now so they can move onto the next thing without having to admit they were wrong.

And on the other end of the spectrum you have the Helen Lovejoys who appear to be slowly losing grip on reality. Posting articles a year old about the seriousness of COVID, banging on about long COVID, claiming that relaxing restrictions is tantamount is a human rights violation or unconstitutional.

I even saw one nutjob say, "2022 is the year Governments will try to convince you that COVID doesn't exist".

It seems that when people are off the deep end, they just pick a side and then doggedly stick with it.

Prof. Nolan: "Hold my beer..."