Iām happy enough to take my chance on Covid guys. I wonāt be getting the vaccination.
Itās time to open up.
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Given that weāre currently in lockdown awaiting vaccinations, you seem to be saying that you would accept 36 months of lockdown
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To be honest I think the odds of people (bar the elderly and vulnerable) taking repeated rounds of vaccinations are fairly slim. They better hope that there is some residual long lasting T-cell immunity from the initial vaccinations that at least confers some level of longer lasting immunity. Even if itās only partial. Most of the younger elements in society are not going to be lining up for repeated jabs every 9 months once they feel their elderly relatives are protected. They know the risks to themselves are minimal.
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On this, I had a thought last night:
NPHET are already concerned about re-opening for Winter because they are concerned that our immune systems are all low because weāve all been isolating (or thatās what they think) so a lot of people will get flus and hospitals will be full anyway. It is likely that this will be used as an argument against reopening in winter.
It occurs to me that as time goes on this effect will get more and more pronounced and it will get harder and harder to reopen. We donāt really know how extreme this effect will get. Lockdown might become a very vicious cycle to break. Itās unknown territory. The effect will also be problematic in places like Australia.
Worst case scenario is that we arrive in a situation where the Irish, Aussies and Kiwis are unable to end their restrictions because thereās a vicious flu strain thatās knocking them down as if theyāre native American Indians whereas the rest of the world just opens up and carries on. The medical junta in those countres will have to give it a scary name and pretend that itās not just a regular flu. The rest of the world will be bemused. Strictly speaking thereās no such thing as a regular flu, itās just a name thatās given to a smogasbord of different quotidian viruses, all of which could be given different names if we were so inclined.
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Ireland will be stuck in some form of lockdown for years to come
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The flu is the biggest thing coming this winter, there is no herd immunity built up as there was no flu season this year due to people being locked up
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Christ above.
Thereās lads here that never want to reopen. They must love the 2004 Munster Final
Its like stockholm syndrome, a lot of people are scared to re emerge into a fully open society because of the way the Irish media have carried on
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The media never want it to end. Itās making them a fortune
God help us if a bad flu strain comes along this winter. It took a year off, but itās waiting in the long grass to pounce.
Gortnabollix syndrome
Theyāll have to give that flu an awful fancy name
here we go again
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La Lambada Came from Brazil in ā89ā¦
We are not in lockdown. And stop being so disingenuous. Iāll hold my breath waiting for those posters who have decided to play the fake ādisingenuousā card over my contributions here, to play it about your actual disingenuous contributions.
Seems any sort of disingenuousness from your āsideā (and thatās what it is) is acceptable to yis.
You need to stop reading what I write as if it says what you want it to say, and read what it actually says.
George has his mojo back here on the news.
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Iām back under the bed listening to him.