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

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Why can we not post anything negative here, bad news here etc.,

Jesus Christ, can we get past this pure and utter shite with people having concerns and the anti-whatever going around saying we want a lockdown please?

Read my post (very slowly maybe to make sure) and you'll see that's not what I said. I've dropped in and out of this thread (and the ones preceding it) for a long time, and read plenty of "bad news" stories. I didn't object to them. What I take issue with is a certain cohort of posters who exclusively post hyperbolic, OTT, misleading Covid stories - often from very questionable sources.

Some don't like to challenge the narrative that Covid is an all-encompassing killer disease. I also know there are those who deny it's a threat at all. The reality is somewhere in the middle - deadly for some (a minority even), an inconvenience for the rest. But just because we all don't revel in the misery does not mean we "bury our heads in the sand".

Im sure if we obsessively tested for cold and flu every year, down to the variant, and anyone in hospital etc, it would seem like a non stop pandemic. It's time to start treating covid the same way we did any other respiratory illness in times past. Yes, sometimes there are more severe seasons etc but that's just life. For the most part, it's over. It's what I'm hearing from people I know in the medical profession anyway. I feel bad for people who are still living in fear of covid, despite being boosted etc. I know one and it's at the point where it's straining his marriage and family relations because he just wont go anywhere, hes still afraid and shames his wife for socialising. He refused to attend his own father's milestone birthday because the young people there were at school/college and therefore disease vectors. it's very sad but he won't hear sense. This is the result of the non stop fear mongering, some people won't ever be able to go back 😔

Cold and flu don't risk collapsing the health system (well, flu is arguable) to the levels that COVID was pre-vaccination.

If they did, we'd be testing for them, isolating and locking down (or living in a world where we don't treat sick people in hospitals or have a much much larger health system, we'd adapt but freedoms would suffer).

We'll likely have a lot more cold and flu this winter because they've had a chance to spread freely again.

Ahh I see the " its just a flu, bro" posts are back again!

Not even going to try to respond to that bs.

This thread has become truly circular.

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This is complete lies. The Irish Council of Civil Liberties declared the use of Vaccine passports to be coercive. Unvaccinated people were refused entry to gyms, restaurants and cinemas. Prominent media personalities called for unvacinnated people to be excluded from society on our national broadcaster, using frankly dangerous othering language, and were let go unchallenged.

Nope, if another virus like COVID came along, then it would likely be lockdown again.

Unless you want countries to overstaff the health system permanently by about ~50% in case there's another pandemic.

They would likely be more prepared for it and be faster at Nightingale style hospital setup, but that's about it, a new novel virus would require different treatment types rendering a lot of the treatment stockpiling (e.g. ventilators) worthless for it (PPE would find its use again, though given how often pandemics occur, it would likely be moth eaten and useless by the time the next one hits, medical technology may also have advanced enough to control it better earlier).

‘we wouldn't allow children into cinemas with their friends if they weren't vaccinated...’

Are you going to commit to this inane statement? When or where did this happen?