"Nobody cares about Covid anymore"

So we are gone from pretty nasty commentary from you and others about " only people on deaths door dying of Covid " to an outright slur on the health service without anything to back it up ?

You know I know all the failings of the health service and I do agree cancer screening should have and could have been opened up sooner, but some impact during a worldwide pandemic was inevitable .

Some of the healthcare staff you are slagging off, died and became ill trying to look after people with Covid before we had any vaccinations . . This was the perceived risk that halted work by allied health professionals in the areas of " screening " of healthy people , which is not deemed " cancer care " . There is a difference.

One is diagnosed and immediate risk, the other is not diagnosed and may not be diagnosed ever.

That screening should have been restarted sooner in private hospitals and upscaled to catch up .

I have posted this before when it became apparent those private facilities were going to waste and also less acute hospitals around the country that had fewer Covid cases . They did restart once vaccinated but people refused to come for screening their droves for a long time . This has been documented and presented on the main Covid thread where you were , so unless you weren't reading anyone else's posts ( a possibility , granted ) you should know that

This " incompetence " as you put it belongs at the door of those that managed the health service ,Minister for Health and Heads of the HSE . It was in their purview to escalate screening at any time once the levels of community transmission started to drop . And this was called for by those working in those areas .

The fact that you row in slating the health services in general while at the same time denigrating any mitigation measures just proves my point about some posters strawmanning about cancer care and speaks to your lack of understanding even after all this time on the Covid forums .

I hear people talking about learning from the pandemic ...that goes both ways .

I think it will be a thing for the vulnerable groups as the present virus is milder and a lot of people have had recent infections with Omicron .

It's as it ever was with the flu vaccine..

First part of this sentence is conspiracy theory stuff

It's a comment. Feel free to discuss it, and point out where the conspiracy is in it. Something can be draconian without there being a conspiracy.

and the second is untrue. Polls showed a majority of people supported the measures.

In your opinion. I met a small but vocal minority who fully supported all the measures without question, and a small group who disagreed from early on. Most people supported all the early measures - but as time went on, people began to attend demonstrations against them. I was in the large group in the middle who went along with the measures, initially believeing that the experts knew what was best. But the longer they went on and the more questions arose as to the effectiveness of the various measures, I slowly moved to question them too. On the basis of available information, not on the basis of Trump and his alt-right friends' antics.

Today, there are plenty of questions that still haven't received clear answers. But to end this response, whether or not a majority of the population go along with a particular policy is not a measure of whether or not it is resented. In this case, as far as I could see, a head of steam was building up. Just today I was speaking to an acquaintance who initially went along with the measures despite the disruption to their small retail business. After a year and a half of lockdowns and what-not they got vaccinated in order to visit a family member abroad. Having reacted to both the second dose and the first booster dose, they have decided that enough is enough, and they won't be having any more. In my experience there are plenty of people in a similar situation.

Nonsense. Hospitals were emptied and whole departments closed for a very long time expecting surge of patients which never come in addition to the fact that people were required to wear mask, restricted socialising and all.

Hospitals were ghost towns with exception of A&E which is like mad house any time of the year pandemic or not.

You sure your reading this thread as nothing like that in this threD. People mostly talking about the past but agreeing it is time to live. The mast mast majority are having a civil conversations but then we get a beaut like yourself who just come in to name call those you had disagreed with you.

I suggest you read the thread again people are talking about the past at the height of it. Most is in relation to people trying to convince masks are useless and when people come backwith so why do people in medicine use it they get I meant using it properly. Any comment on now is its right to wear in medical settings or if you want then that's there choice

I just find it strange about the people who were pro restrictions because we had to protect the health service.

They are now the crowd saying we should move on.

Should these people not be calling for a lessons learned so we can improve the health service.

I am sure there are some people who just want blame others.

But ultimately we had fathers not allowed to see kids being born, people not allowed say goodbye to family members, kids forced to wear masks, business decimated and cancer screenings cancelled, suicides and I am sure many more things I am leaving out.

The people who made these decisions should face a tribunal to explain their decisions.

To explain the science behind the decisions that negatively impacted peoples lives for 2 years and why they were more severe than other countries.

Why would any citizen of Ireland be against asking questions and learning for any future pandemics?

I hear the HSE recommending mask wearing this morning on public transport and in congested indoor areas like supermarkets etc. Numbers up in hospitals etc. Not sure if the term 'die hard' is appropriate though :)

No idea

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8958309/Builder-51-died-falling-10ft-ladder-killed-coronavirus.html