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

Down to 477 in hospital and a big drop to 33 people in ICU this morning.

god love rte - cant let it go obviously using the pre 8:00am figures even though its 120 down on last friday ( but monday was 15 up on sunday)

Covid-19: Hospital cases rise but virus wave nears end (rte.ie)

My wife is a healthcare assistant in a nursing home and they are all in PPE again as a few cases were found there this week.

The residents are getting the second booster now but no word about the staff, seems a bit mad??

Impossible to say whether a country should sign up to a treaty that has yet to be written.

If there is a conflict between any treaty and the constitution, then the treaty is either non-binding or it will require a referendum before it can be ratified.

It's a very elegant system of ours. By implication if the Minister for Health can sign a treaty without a constitutional referendum, then the powers of the treaty are very limited and are really little more than a gentlemens' agreement.

The concept of a formal, global treaty which homogenises pandemic responses and the sharing of information is on the face of it essential and kind of incredible that we haven't had it before. We are a single species on a single world. Each community flailing about collecting its own data and making conflicting decisions about how to respond is pretty irrational.

day 0

From the HSE site:

You should self-isolate (stay in your room) as soon as you notice symptoms of COVID-19 or get a positive COVID-19 test result. Either of these are considered day zero when you are counting your self-isolation days.

Don't know about the first part there dominatin, but definitely agree with the second part .

Reality has nothing to do with some of the posts from that poster, apart from their own reality that is !

People sick of hearing about covid are prepared to go to great lengths to do so.

well this pop up on my news feeds. I wasn't digging for it.

I dunno lads, I think there is some sort of Stockholm syndrome going on in this thread!

I just did a quick google of RTE, TheJournal.ie and Independent.ie (some of the biggest exponents of the Covid crisis) and there isn't a single mention of Covid on their front pages. Of course, if you go looking for it, which many on here seem to do on a regular basis, you will find what you're looking for...

Well this treaty as @CruelSummer rightly points out doesn’t require a change to our constitution so there won’t be a referendum about it.

Long post didn't read.

Sorry but it wasn't me that posted a story.

Are people really still isolating in their rooms with this thing?

Was in Supermacs last night and all staff wearing mask. It was in a service station and all other staff working there not wearing them. An odd one.

A friend of mine, who is a Covid survivor, ran the Limerick marathon yesterday.

Your posts don't reply to mine and as I said in reply to another poster your reality is different from mine and many others .

Outside of my work I know dozens of people , dare I say personally , all badly affected by Covid, but yet you persist with the declaration that that is hysteria ?

Does your limited reality make all of us who worked more outside the home and dealing with the general public , many of whom might actually be over 40( perish the thought !) irrelevant?

Yes I see you finally admit that the vaccines did change the course of disease ..that must have been hard for you .....

So I say as I have done before , that I do agree that the way masks were introduced used and abused was both ineffective and wrong , but that they were used effectively in healthcare once we were allowed to use them by the HSE !

I also agree that young under 40 year olds were generally very less affected by even the original strains, but not to the extent that it was negligible...that is not a fact .

This was always pre vaccine more serious than any other infectious disease both in infectiousness and severity , and to say otherwise now , when we are out the other side of a pandemic following worldwide lockdowns, havoc and vaccinations , is nothing but disingenuous twaddle .