Coronavirus - Here come the variants

[The_Most_Infamous]

The schools should have opened after Christmas. It was disgraceful that they didnt.

[TheUlteriorMotive]

@Appendage

The roaring twenties on the way.

The die roaring twenties ?

[backinatracksuit]

You surely weren’t expecting any shocks? Everything has been leaked here since the very start.
Bringing the schools back is a positive anyway, it’ll improve the mood of the country somewhat.

[TheUlteriorMotive]

The schools back is a big plus. Everything else can tip away if they can get vaccine roll out done we’ll be out the gap by middle of summer.

[Rocko]

@backinatracksuit

That’s the big thing anyway, schools are number 1.

I thought the vaccine rollout times were OK, better than I expected though I hadn’t been following the trajectory so maybe that was as expected or worse

Yeah the vaccine numbers are better than previously projected and the only real positive but an important one.

[Copper_pipe]

Scroll down a good bit for the plan for each level

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[Copper_pipe]

All sport should be off?

[peddlerscross]

There’s no plan to ever get full crowds back?

[mikehunt]

@Tierneevin1979

I actually agree with you, comparing countries is fucking moronic

Yet here you are comparing countries over a couple of days in January…

Coronavirus - Here for life (In high population density areas)

All we’re missing now is another article from an English publication having a pop at Sweden. Where’s the Swedish lockdown that the hysterical ones were promising over the holidays? Deaths reported over the past few days (Johns Hopkins site): UK 1,820 two days ago, 1,290 yesterday. Ireland 60, 50 Sweden 12, 3 Lockdowns work apparently. A year into this and the death rate in Ireland is currently significantly worse than Sweden. Cases and deaths have been dropping since mid December in Sweden…

[Lazarus]

This easy to follow guide isn’t very easy to follow

[Thomas_Brady]

Six more weeks, we’ll revisit it in a few weeks…
Shocking in fairness.

[Heyyoubehindthebushes]

Agreed should never have closed but the unions reckon its the most risk area for covid

[the_man_himself]

How the fuck is that level 1? Do they think this is going to go on forever?

[The_Most_Infamous]

@Heyyoubehindthebushes

Agreed should never have closed but the unions reckon its the most risk area for covid

Very dissapointing carry on from them,

Cases within schools across the world have been negligable, ASTI in particular have been shameful.

I don’t blame teachers for it - union bosses have a lot to answer for though.

[gaillimhmick]

@The_Most_Infamous

I don’t blame teachers for it - union bosses have a lot to answer for though

Agreed, the teachers hadn’t a clue what was going on and any I talked to wanted to go back ages ago.

[Ambrose_McNulty]

No offence, but I think that’s bullshit. If there was a backlash from the teachers to the union they’d have changed their tune fairly quickly. No union operates idependently of their members. Easy for them to say they wanted to be back when it suited most of them to be at home.

[gaillimhmick]

Vitamin D supplements should be part of Covid-19 policy, experts tell...

I read this on here 12 months ago. Holohan, the HSE and the complicit Irish media have a lot to answer for. The suppression of discussion and debate in this crisis has cost many lives.

[Horsebox]

It was basically an opportunity for him to row back on his stupid comments to the Mirror last Thursday. Nothing new, no details, no targets and no hope.

[gaillimhmick]

I talked to three and they had all emailed their unions expressing that they felt they were being misrepresented.

[Ambrose_McNulty]

Fair play to them.