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

A well Mr O’ Neill has spoken! Dirtbag! Don’t believe a word the tool says anymore you see!

These people live on a different planet. Worrying about a crowded Dart when normal people have moved on and are going to restaurants, gigs, matches, cinemas. Some haven't left their echo chamber and don't realise life is going on around them.

We are all going to get Covid - even if you have had Covid, you will get it again at some stage over the next 2 years.

The more people who get Covid now, the more immunity will be built up, and the better we will be able to cope with it in the future. We will still be liable to get Covid, however in general, we will be able to deal with it.

We need to move on. There are many things in life which will kill us eventually. Covid is another thing in the mix out there.

In 2019, there were 4 x Corona viruses circulating some of which have been around for 100+ years. In 2022, there are now 5 x corona viruses circulating. Time to move on.

This wave will pass too.....I suspect by mid April.

I see that the Journal.ie has a poll today wondering "should mandatory masks rules be reintroduced in certain spaces". Current polling has 69% yes, 27% no and the best 4% not sure (they are the half mast folk you still see going around!!)

So coming into the summer, with brighter better days. With covid burning through the last of the folks who haven't got it yet, people want to "feel safe" by forcing others to poorly wear a near useless piece of cloth in certain circumstances?? Like what is going on with people? Do they want masks forever? Do they want Gardaí policing buses and trains forever?

It's a fact at this stage that everyone is going to get Covid at least once. Please understand this folks. You are not staying away from it - masks or no masks. You can run, but you can't hide with this one I'm afraid. It is far too transmissible to avoid.

So maybe the original virus didn't need any restrictions at all given how uncontagious it was?

I mean we had the highly contagious alpha, the super contagious delta followed by 70% more contagious omicron and now 30% more contagious BA2.

Sounds like we were locked down for months for no reason.

Speaking on RTÉ Radio Ones Today with Claire Byrne, he said: “[We are] in a global wave, it’s just happening again in a sense and it’s because of this BA2 variant, the new variant around, the sister of Omicron, and this is much more infectious than Omicron and it’s spreading more and more widely.

"It could be the most infectious virus we have seen amazingly, chickenpox and measles is very infectious, we know these spread like wild fire but this BA2 there's nothing like it, it is 30pc more infectious than Omicron which is already 70pc more infectious than the previous one.

Journal polls are worthless. Half of the votes come from 20 bot accounts and most of the rest come from piss-takers.

China's official case number has increased tenfold in 3 weeks despite locking down entire cities into a far more restrictive regime than we ever had.

Anyone who thinks facemasks can make a blind bit of difference against Omicron is completely clueless.

I support anyone who feels like they want to wear a mask for comfort reasons, I don't judge. But you may as well be wearing fishnet tights on your head.

Be this time next week i reckon there will be panic and actual serious talk from government of bringing back masks,

I hope im wrong ,

Hi guys,

Anyone have an idea of pcr test turnaround times at the moment?

The amount of outbreaks is scandalous at this stage! That 1338 is not a real number! Icu should be the only number reported now end of!

That's always been the case. Introduce measures when cases are at or reaching a peak and then when cases fall they are credited as why, when it would have happened anyway.

Shut the pubs.

Now it’s the WHO’s turn to put the boot in.

Hans Kluge: “”Several European countries, including Ireland, lifted their Covid curbs too "brutally" and are now seeing a rise in cases likely due to the more transmissible BA2 variant, the World Health Organization has said.””

however Kluge goes on to say “he was "optimistic but vigilant" about the pandemic's development in Europe.”

Shutting half the testing centres would get cases down quicker.

Hans is a muppet.

We had about 500000 cases a week over Christmas, we lifted restrictions and cases fell off a cliff.

Yes I know but its confirmed cases the media need to drive the frenzy.

Get rid of logging those snake oil antigen tests too.