Update that fully vaccinated people no longer need to wear a mask or physically distance in any setting, except where required by federal, state, local, tribal, or territorial laws, rules, and regulations, including local business and workplace guidance
Update that fully vaccinated people can refrain from testing following a known exposure unless they are residents or employees of a correctional or detention facility or a homeless shelter
Preliminary data from Israel suggest that people vaccinated with Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine who develop COVID-19 have a four-fold lower viral load than unvaccinated people.29 This observation may indicate reduced transmissibility, as viral load has been identified as a key driver of transmission.30
But you know itâs not happening, so what are you arguing?
The Irish government cannot control was NI does. Given they canât and travel is going from Belfast this summer, what is your position? Are you anti travel from Dublin just based on travel? Because the variants thing is a nonsense. If there is actually a killer variant, it will come in via Belfast and into the south from travellers.
My âbelovedâ Fianna Fail have made a bollocks of an awful lot of things. Blaming them for not having a shared approach with NI is however the height of hypocrisy considering you know the DUP would never agree to it.
Do you have any other Captain Obvious statements to come out with this afternoon?
How is it the height of hypocrisy. FFG and the DUP were on the same page here, none of them wanted to engage with each other. Why you think it necessary to cast the blame on the DUP solely is beyond me. They are both to blame equally and Iâve never said anything to the contrary.
It seems to me that vaccines are broadly effective in that they will largely prevent serious symptoms, and are likely to significantly inhibit transmission, but thatâs a different thing altogether to what you claimed - that they are 100% effective at stopping contraction and transmission. My reading is that we still donât know for sure exactly how effective vaccines are stopping contraction, never mind transmission, and we probably wonât know that for a while.
Vaccines are great but they arenât foolproof and rely on critical mass being achieved at a population level to achieve maximum effect.
Iâm not pro/anti travel. I just happen to think itâs the point of insanity when it happens before society has reopened properly. Itâs doing things arseways.
Well I donât see why youâd want to be travelling internationally unless it was absolutely necessary. Two weeks in Torremolinos definitely isnât necessary.