"Nobody cares about Covid anymore"

Personally i think unless you are directly affected by it , the pandemic is dead and buried. After 2 years of lockdowns, mass trauma and economic strife there is almost an unspoken collective agreement to erase this whole experience and return to pre-Covid life as soon as possible. Look at the pubs, clubs, hotels and restaurants: booked out every single week with all manner of events by people who want to make up for lost time.

If we could only get rid of those stupid Covid stickers on peoples cars that would be great. They are completely irrelevant now and id wager that 50% of them are just chancing their arm and have no connection to frontline workers at all.

COVID is over. It was dangerous when it was a novel virus because nobody had immunity to it. By now everyone has either had at least 1 vaccine or has had the virus at least once.

Some people may still get very sick,some people will still die. But that's influenza

I would be technically considered vulnerable, though I am generally healthy. I don't wear masks except where I have to (doctor's surgery, and tbh I think that is a good idea anyway, given they are centres of disease distribution), I am fully vaccinated, I do the supermarket trolly cleaning (again a good idea, I always felt even before Covid that they were manky), so as far as I am personally concerned its over. I could yet be proved wrong. Anyone prefers or needs to wear a mask, good luck to them, not my business.

Only time now is at the dentist which still are mandating a mask to enter, which I can see why that might happpen.

You wear a mask in hospitals certain places to reduce the chance of infection even if you are vaccinated

Not because someone on tv told you to do so. Theres still people out there who never got vaxxed or maybe they are junkies or people who dont believe in vaccination or think its a government conspiracy

Vaccination does not stop you from getting covid it just makes it less of a threat to your health

Ah, get out and enjoy life before the next pandemic, godzilla attack, nuclear armageddon, ...

Also, get a less severe form to help combat a more severe form of the disease.

If people really want to save lives they could donate money to the poor worldwide. Or drive less and walk more.

Covid was never even remotely dangerous to the vast, vast majority of people.

Still managed to kill 6 million people worldwide in just over two years, e.g. one in every 300 Americans, threatened to overwhelm national health systems, pushed health staff to their limits (and beyond) all over the world. And all of that was with intense measures against it, unthinkable if we'd done nothing.

Any interviews or comments I've read from ICU nurses and doctors paints a very, very different picture from these "it's just a little flu" revisionists.

A relation of mine who has Crohn's disease contracted Covid for the first time about two weeks ago.

He remains very ill and is isolated at home, being warned that at this moment of extremely low immunity, if he got Flu or another virus circulating, it could affect many of his organs and kill him.

Its well for those for whom Covid can be largely ignored and left in the past, but in public settings its everyone's responsibility to limit the spread of all diseases, at a time that they are taking out whole classes and workplaces.

You'll never tell who, out in public, has reduced immunity, just be sensible and assume everyone has, especially you feel that you are carrying a dose yourself.

A million people died in america from covid, you,ll likely only end up in the icu if you are not vaxxed and boosted, you dont go to the icu unless you have very serious health problems ,

it seems every actor famous celeb has got covid at some point , but they recovered as they were fully vaxxed, eg james cameron film director has covid right now ,most people recover after 10 days to a week if they are vaccinatted , i presume 95 per cent of people living here are vaxxed , if any person wants to get a job in a cafe, night club restaurant i presume they would need to show they are vaxxed

I question that ric lad. Cameron (68) is an older man so perhaps for him its important to get the vax, and it helped him to recover quickly, did he take any other medication and also how healthy is he?

You'll most likely end up in ICU due to age and co-morbidities, your vaccination status for a young/healthy individual make this much less.

If you look at the stats for Ireland we had a much worse death rate this summer compared to last, while winter this (currently) seems to have dropped significantly but I suggest being exposed to the virus by the general population may have more to do with this than the actual vaccine that wans as time goes on.

Any celebs go to ICU due to COVID over the last 2 years?

6.6 million deaths so far

1.1 million deaths in the US

No point in worrying about pandemics. China doesn't seem to be ...

Possibly, I'm just going with the official figures. I'm sure your stats from the pandemic are very different.

I'm in Ireland I would assume people in certain jobs will be asked have they been vaccinated eg people who work in cafes or upmarket restaurants .I don't expect staff to ask the public ,have you been vaccinated? Would a dentist employ someone who is not vaxxed?

I care about it ‘cause I just caught the fecking thing again. That’s twice in three months after thinking I was super immune, and being well vaccinated.

It will never be forgotten by people who were treated like leper’s because they decided to say no

I honestly couldn't give a sh!te about covid. Covid has had its day as far as I'm concerned, time to forget about it and live your life

This is partially correct. TBH, Having looked at the stats that the government initially gave I will agree, yes, but then as those stats reversed they stop publishing meanwhile those same stats showed of those that died 80% were fully vaxxed while 20% were not vaxxed. These are HSE figures. If you can give me those stats for the very few currently in ICU with covid over the last few months I am happy to be corrected on this. But I don't see any up to date Irish stats. I doubt the stats reversed for deaths. Last week 39 deaths were reported.

Again the vax does not stop you from infecting others weather vulnerable or not, while on balance for a healthy/young person the vax generally seem lacking any benefits, with the vax if you get infected it will be mild, same if you are young/healthy and you will spread Covid if you are vaxxed or not.

Cameron didn't go to the launch of Avatar because he got covid, it was because he could still spread covid, if he was a 25 years old (and healthy) an unvaxed most likely he would have the same outcome.

You should during winter months consider supplement with Vit D, Vit K2, with a balanced diet, keep active and avoid crowded places where possible. This will help to prevent almost most winter bugs.

If anything the pandemic should have proved how important a balanced diet and exercise is to helping your immune system.

I don't wear masks anymore except if I go to the GP or the Hospital which is thankfully very rare.

I see very few people wearing them. The odd person on public transport wears them but that is about it. I still sanitise my hands when I go to the shops and if they have no sanitiser I use my Dettol hand wipes.

I think we need to just live with it.