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

Try working in the health service - not in patient contact at all, but yet still barriers, stickers, 15minute rules at lunchtime, everything wiped down, social distancing signs everywhere, restrictions on people in meeting rooms, no food allowed in from caterers, etc etc etc.

ICU went from 44 four days ago to guess what 44 today. It yoyos on a daily basis.

Only 532 in hospital.

We’ve ridden the wave.

Sorry to hear and I hope this won’t be the case for me. Right now, I feel pretty okay. Just worried about previous issues leaving me immunocompromised.

Do you mind me asking what age you are?

For reference I am 33 year old male and rather sporty

I got COVID this week. Definitely wasn't like a mild cold. More like a bad flu .

To be fair, that's how the health service should always have been run, they were/are hives for disease.

It's not just to prevent spread among patients. It's to prevent cases in staff and further staff shortages.

Margret must have not logged out on Friday & locked the spreadsheet

Firstly it's a viral hepatitits , unrelated to inactivity etc as you describe . No evidence as yet that it's a Covid related hepatitis , so whomever you are talking about is reaching there .

Secondly, research and healthcare are now finding so many people turning up with all sorts of Covid related damage which was predicted as " Long Covid " and worse now that they have had the space anddustance to investigate properly and fo longitudinal studies. There is no question but about 30% of infected people are not recovering and are developing novel postviral syndromes , some severe and long lasting, some milder and resolving quicker .

But am not going to waste my time posting any further on this because the thread as it stands is anti science and anti anybody that doesn't agree with the prevailing narrative which appears to be ...its gone now and we should never have taken precautions because it's so mild "!

Where are you going with this " mitigation is a busted flush " ?

Mitigation is what saved us until we got to a milder variant with a population mainly vaccinated .

Anyone that says otherwise is just plain ignorant or looking to annoy people .

I would not have had you in either of those categories .

They're not sure what it is. They're calling it of "unknown origin", and have variously found Adenovirus and Covid in some cases, and no viruses in others. Maybe it's a range of causes.

Mitigation is now a busted flush in terms of the public at large. FFP2 masks have some limited effectiveness, but standard masks are completely useless and hard core lockdowns demonstrably don't work. Improve air quality may be of some benefit but cannot address the primary location in which spread occurs - private homes.

Mitigation for the public at large worked until Omicron came along. Now we have nothing. We can protect discrete locations like cancer wards and similar, but public spaces and even entire buildings are simply not a possibility.

We have a widely uptaken vaccination programme, effective antivirals and solid booster plan in place. That's all we can actually do now. Nothing else works anymore.

I'd really like to know where we stand on COVID, I am 60 plus and WFH since it all kicked off, and basically have gone no where except the odd break in Ireland since then, but I am really getting fed up with the situation and the muddled messaging that we get.

I took first jab in April 21, booster at start of December and now I'm guessing I'll be asked to get another one in the next few weeks. that will be 4 jabs.

Basically, if we are getting jabs every 3/4 months (that's what it averages out for me) should we (plus 60 brigade) not just go back to normal and live life and then just treat Covid as a cold/ mild flu and not even take a test unless we feel we have something more severe? Otherwise aren't the jabs a total waste of time, because if we go nowhere, we won't catch it, even without a vaccine.

Should government not just make a statement to say this is the new flu and explain that people need to take the Covid vaccine as they would a standard flu vaccine by a certain age or according to their own personal vulnerability. In other words it would not be compulsory to take it.