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

over the past few days I’ve seen a lot of this crap on twitter and Facebook! I’ll keep asking these people what they did during any flu/winter illness period prior to 2020.

Masks haven’t worked since December, people are getting on with life! Nobody is saying not to wear one it’s all advice! The fact we’ve roughly 20 in icu because of covid out of a population of over 5 million is sweet feck all! The way these people talk is as if the non mask wearers are dirty face licking runts! It’s a snobbish attitude the perpetually scared have towards normal people who are moving on with life. If your scared do what you need to do to keep yourself safe but by fûck don’t lecture me on how I should live my life or anyone else. The other things is they’re blatantly using hospital numbers without giving context for their outrage. Incidental covid is a problem as is hospital infection management has always been crap! We here about it every winter!

I heard a funny one over the weekend. Someone i know ( in his 60’s) went into his local supermarket in a small town he lives in. He didn’t put on a mask. He wasn’t in there 5 mins when another customer approached him and had a rant at him for not wearing his mask.( not sure if they knew each other)

He calmly replied before walking off “ I can understand why you’d want to wear a mask because if i had a face like that so would i” 😆😆

I wonder what would make the government choose that route next winter? Our infections are at an all time high currently and there’s no talk of sitting people apart in the cinema. Restrictions were lifted in January when cases were rampant.

If we return to covid passes, a large majority of the Ukrainian refugees won't be able to access things as most of them are not vaccinated.

So I can't see a return to vaccine certs.

I think the issue is that some restrictions won't have any meaningful impact, but it will damage livelihoods and just inconvenience people.

So a doctor said more people are dying from flu than Covid.

Tell me the logic in bringing back in restrictions for Covid??

Masks in shops are idiotic! I’ve seen work colleagues wear them and some local customers and then at the weekend in the pub mask off no bother back to 2019! The mask boy has sailed!

Is anyone actually calling for bringing back restrictions outside of a few fanatics on twitter? Covid with the Omicron variant and our high levels of vaccination is now no worse than a bad cold. At least half the people in hospital with it are there for other reasons.

I haven't heard anyone of note calling for restrictions.

However, the cranks here are hoping that someone does, so they can become crankier. They just can't let the crankiness go.

I am nearly in the same boat. Escaped covid from the start. I have a close contact now positive. It's nerve wrecking. Currently I have no symptoms and I hope it stays that way. Also testing negative on home antigen tests. I am a whimp when it comes to sickness even if it's something like a head cold. A headcold can be sickening and quite draining and exhausting too.

I am vaccinated as is my close contact. I am eating healthy with some added supplements. I have increased the holistic measures that I usually adopt when I have a cold too like I am adding ginger to everything.

I hope I don’t have a similar result to you. I’m heading to the states on holiday this day next week. Gotta get a PCR done on the money for US emigration. For the 1st time in 2 years I’m actually nervous of contracting covid but not for health reasons…. Just got to have a negative or goodbye holiday in the sun .

That seems to be only about her own concerns. That said some people do remain very worried about it and can only read hospital numbers as a sign of where we are. I think that is a real challenge for the HSE to address.

If no youngsters had the vaccine we wouldn't end up in restrictions...They were never the ones being hospitalised.