The Race for a Vaccine. The Road to Demaskus

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every country in the world is hailing yesterday as a great day, but no, not Cardinal Holohan, Captain doom won’t have it of course

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The vaccine doesn’t need to work that well. Just needs enough of a placebo effect to overcome the hysteria.

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Claire Byrne discussing Long Covid next on Radio 1. Pat Kenny “will you take the vaccine”

The Irish media won’t let this go easily.

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We were raised on stories and tales of misery and misfortune. Our media are hardly likely to let us have something to look forward to.

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The top story is on RTÉ now is about 20% of Covid cases suffering from a psychiatric disorder like anxiety or depression 1 month afterwards.

It’s no wonder when these doom merchants have told people want a fatal killer this is and that even if you survive you might have the dreaded Long Covid.

The media have been a pox on this.

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You’ll never be the same again after the covid

Taking this from the Telegraph front page that Dowdy posted.

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How many vaccines would the 26 counties need to cover the list?
1-6 is maybe 500k? Total guess.

20% of the population is over 65 i believe. so 500k plus Vat

There are 700k people aged over 65 anyway for a start. With essential workers etc you are looking at not far off a million I’d say

So that’s 1 million or so.

Statistic: Population of the Republic of Ireland in 2019, by age group (in 1,000s) | Statista
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RTE have fuck all left to cover bar COVID.

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By my rough maths, and assuming it’s shared equally, the EU would need to get 100m vaccines for us to get 1m.

Reported to have signed a contract for 300m doses. Not sure on timeframe and probably a double dose needed.

Presumably we could vaccinate 500,000 people within a month.

You’d be talking March earliest I’d say

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Can we wait for rugby football to die before rolling out the vaccine?

This is all wrong. They should just be vaccinating all the fat people first. I’d expect that a fat bastard aged 45 is far more at risk than a healthy active 55 year old.

Also kids with leukaemia should be getting it nearly before anyone.

Edit: I assume also that teachers should be first in line, given that they’re frontline workers.

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Cheltenham racegoers should be prioritised

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Why do you hate old people?