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

If someone gets a positive antigen, uploads the data and then goes for a confirmatory PCR are we not then double counting cases?

Or if I do two antigen tests on consecutive days and upload both, is that possible?

The only metric we should be looking at now is the hospital numbers. Forget daily case numbers now, do them weekly if needs be.

Fantastic stuff

Get rid of it for international travel within Europe next hopefully in time for summer

So in your view a positive antigen result is of little value and should not count in the daily figures?

I was under the impression that under 40s are being encouraged to do antigen only in order to free up PCR capacity

I'm almost afraid to hope that the Government will actually do what they're kite flying about this week, it would be fantastic. If Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil and Greens lift the Covid Cert requirement domestically as they should due to what's happened with the arrival of Omicron, they'll get my vote and many others votes back. March 31st a long time to wait, and if there's one thing we've all learned from Covid is to make hay while the sun shines. We'll be ok now until Autumn, time to maximise that and organise a proper health strategy for the vulnerable next winter.

Keep in mind that it was only two weeks ago that MM told the press that boosters would be required for the domestic covid passport “in the fullness of time.” Trusting these people after two years of being jerked around should be nearly impossible. Voting for them again… I can’t really understand how the same parties who implemented divisive legislation removing said legislation makes them suddenly electable again. It’s like trusting a feral dog whose already spent quite a while gnawing on your leg.

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Statement from the National Public Health Emergency Team - Tuesday 18 January

And they even tweet that in the thread reporting the cases

You get more microphones in your face with drip feeding.

As you said it's a game for them

They need to say we can drop most restrictions between this weekend and following 2 to 3 weeks. The useless Covid passes need to go sooner rather than later.

For the most part, I do not hold the behaviour of FF/FG/Greens in high regard during the mid to latter part of this pandemic. No action from them will redeem the damage done, and they are not worthy recipients of my future votes.

The ESRI survey last week was interesting. 69% of people agreed with the current levels of restrictions, 20% said there should be tougher restrictions, 11% said restrictions were too severe. I imagine the results would be different if a survey was carried out now. Still it seems that this thread was not in line with the general public's wishes then. "Let it rip" will get you 30 plus "Thanks",

The policy has been to let it rip the last few weeks.

It's starting to look a whole lot like the Spanish flu. Arrived in February 1918 and ended in April 1920 when it became a mild endemic virus.

A part of me is a little disappointed that the Omicron numbers are reducing so rapidly. Omicron was providing huge numbers of natural immunity very fast. And I got it myself before anyone accuses me of wishing illness on others.

There is a huge amount of Covid fear around still. Mostly irrational but it does exist. It will take time for people to adjust but I agree that we need to reclaim normality as soon as possible.

After two years of what some might consider over zealous caution I actually find this narrative from the same government almost a bit weird!

I’m not saying this is the case, but It’s as if they’re a bunch of teenagers and they’ve been caught out on a really bad lie, and they’re on a charm offensive to try to win you over before the full extent of the lie / mess is revealed.

There will be some people getting thrown under the bus in the coming days, weeks and months if it hasn’t started already.

Hmm Christine Loscher on Prime Time stating it’s ‘too early to say’ if Covid Certs can be dropped, this is not true in my opinion after the mass exposure of the population to Omicron.

The media here are absolutely shocking and it should be investigated how it’s come to be that they’ve promoted citizens rights been taken indefinitely, why they are consistently taking this position and what they stand to gain from doing this.

Meanwhile the U.K. will be mostly Covid cert free shortly.