Those bastards with their unnecessary travel to work in the healthcare sector.
And by how many others?
Nursing homes have given shots to the family of the owners
If they belong to the Irish people then he stole them. Itās not the board he should solely be accountable to, itās the Gardai too. Arrest the cunt and lock him up.
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Iād suggest that is vastly underreported.
*Going solely on anecdotal evidence
Itās happening all over the country
My mother in law was delighted to get the call from her doctor (and friend) to come in and take a left over vaccine, she was hardly the most deserving case, weāre fucked from this cancel culture bullshit, itās everywhere
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Office admin staff are getting it in limerick. None essential staff who can work from home but yet play the poor lip on social media claiming the public should be working from home and cutting social contacts. Hypocrisy at its finest. Ireland is a great country
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Far more than that
Yeah weāre in an era of permanent outrage. Weāre not as far from Salem as we think.
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Heās probably on safe enough ground. Every one of them is peddling whatever lie fits the narrative and why should rte set any standards when the public are happy enough to spoon up this shit.
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We need to knock the Beacon down and build a prison for vaccine villians in its place
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If theyāre asymptomatic whatās the problem, are they even a caseā¦unless youāre still buying into the asymptomatic transmission fairytale
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Iām confused @Lazarus . There seem to be lads here arguing that there arenāt enough vaccines to go round so itās best just to give them away to friends and family? Would there be some sort of holding facility for these morons?
Sounded dubious to me but the recent figures are about that level if you put the from Covid/with Covid debate to the side
Edit. Not sure that chart is clear. 29 hospitalisations out of 2225 cases. Thatās 1.3%
I initially thought that but thereās a bit of a difference from a GP correctly ringing people who are next on their list and a lad giving his kidsā teachers from a good distance away the vaccine
Thats just how Ireland works. Youāre entitled to get a spare vaccine if you know people never mind poor Maureen lying in her hospital bed with cancer. Other countries could learn a lot from us
Irelandās winter wave started long before Christmas, look at the charts. Cases started to rise in mid December, reached a peak in mid January and started to decline in late January. Where else was this seen? Every other western country and US state, with the exception of the few countries like Norway and Finland who adopted a zero Covid strategy from the start of the pandemic. Regardless of whether those countries and states had āstay at homeā restrictions, Florida versus California the classic example of states with large populations, California with itās strict stay at home order had higher levels of hospitalizations and deaths than Florida which ended itās order in May 2020. Sweden had a winter wave but nowhere near as severe as many other European countries (the winter wave was worse than the first wave in many countries).
What drove this winter wave? Three main factors that drive the flu season every year, people spending far more time indoors with windows closed so stagnant air where a virus thrives, like flu viruses the Covid virus survives better in cold dry air, and peopleās immunity is weaker in winter months due to vitamin D deficiency and other factors (January is the worst month for deaths of vulnerable people). Christmas undoubtedly was a factor as people congregate with family, this happened everywhere regardless of stay at home orders. The other factor driving higher transmission was younger people in all western countries socializing from summer 2020 onwards, this happened regardless of stay at home orders. So, itās seasonality and peopleās behavior that drove the winter wave, and lockdowns had very little impact on stopping or limiting spread. In fact there is a good argument that extending lockdowns for so long made the winter wave worse because there were so many healthy people who had not been exposed to the virus, so there was very little immunity in the population.
In summary, what blows you and @backinatracksuitās argument out of the water is the exact same winter wave was seen in places with lockdowns and without lockdowns, and no western country or US state health care system was overwhelmed.
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Thatās not to argue that sensible restrictions donāt work. They clearly do, avoid the behaviors that spread the virus, keep your distance from people and wear a surgical mask when youāre indoors where people are forced to gather (shops, the workplace). It wonāt eliminate the virus but it is proven to keep transmission levels reasonably under control. Lockdown or no lockdown itās people acting like idiots that cause most of the spread.