Coronavirus - Here come the variants

Countries with far better health systems all began to lockdown because they knew their hospitals wouldn’t cope. You were wrong a year ago and you’re still wrong. The vaccine is the way out. To think otherwise is just head in the sand denial.

I showed up at that wrong church for a wedding in Claremorris. I needed to be in some townsland 10 miles away.

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I’ll never complain again about sweaty hairy arsed Spaniards standing in the way and blocking everything in the chiringuito in the sweltering mid day sun and the also heat belting out from the kitchen …who cares if the cunts have an aversion to orderly queuing…

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Do you think Ireland is the only country to have had a lockdown? How do you propose to continually increase capacity in the health system to keep up with a sickness that increases exponentially?

If only it were that simple. I once scheduled surgery to get me out of going to a wedding…I did need the surgery though

It’s notable that the CMO says there is no need to add hospital capacity. If you take him at his word the health system issues in Ireland are not capacity based.

Calling Covid 19 a preventable infection is also extremely disingenuous.

Vaccines are the way out and it’s probably the only thing we agree on. Our heath system isn’t fit for purpose long before this. The pleasure from Holohan, gylnn, Leo and George Lee was protect the health system. We had doctors on the six one every night saying we needto lockdoqn to stop hospitals being overwhelmed. The WHO said lockdowns are not the tool to use to stop covid and should only be used to buy time to build capacity, something we haven’t done or are now planning to do in future. Yes other countries woth better systems were also overwhelmed. But should we not build the capacity with an extra buffer for future? We will have another pandemic someday but we cannot accept the same response that we have had due to being caught on the backfoot.

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We are not the only country but we had the most severe. Exponential growth is bollocks again this is no excuse not to build much needed capacity in response once we are all vaccinated and OIUTF at last

No we didn’t have the most severe. We may have had the longest, definitely not the most severe.

Exponential growth isn’t bollocks, it’s the single reason this pandemic has so affected the world.

I showed up a day late for a wedding in Clifden one time. Luckily they were all still off their tits so no one really noticed.

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What else would you expect from them? Their job is to protect the health system. Just cos they’re shit at it does it mean we shouldn’t have introduced restrictions to save lives? Ireland have been no different to any other country. Restrictions was the strategy of choice used by most countries until a vaccine was found. The argument that we should have OIUTF before a vaccine was found has proven to be absolutely mental. I believe you were one of those.

Herself has ‘notions’ apparently.

Almost like being there

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Mick Martin saying we’re doing all we can to help the people of India… Lamb Buna and naan bread all round.

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George Lee doing his best to throw some cold water on Mehole’s Independence Day style speech.

He was upbeat by his standards

It’s like they just decided that’s enough.

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The zero Covid lads are not happy

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They will turn on Tony now no doubt