Lee Hurst 
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What did they say mate? You’d want to be a headbanger to be listening to them, but it seems you did?
Can we all just accept that we are in Year 2 of a 4 Year battle here. Calm down lads. Pace yourselves.
The Year 2025 will be our Independence Day/Year.
That’s the truth boys
You’d have to be happy with that. Will it be monthly boosters self administered at that stage
Boosters smoochers
You might just have said a wise mouthful there.
Some people seem unable to accept that history is not just something that happened but also something that happens.
It’s looking good in japan
Congratulations
The battle is over mate, the virus won. Over 90% of adults in the UK and in Ireland have antibodies to Covid. The great majority of western governments have been unable to stop or even slow the spread of Covid and have essentially given up. Once the majority of adults have been vaccinated or have had Covid it’s time to move on and stop listening to the scaremongering headbangers. With boosters and antivirals the elderly and vulnerable are at much lower risk than 2020/early 2021.
Unless a variant emerges that causes a more serious disease with a higher CFR, there will be no going back to lockdowns. This SA variant is just more scaremongering from Independent SAGE who are desperate to remain relevant.
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2,465 cases in South Africa, up from 1,275 yesterday and 275 cases on November 16th. This looks like the real deal, the nightmare scenario.
This could easily be ripping through us before Christmas if governments don’t act.
And the question of whether governments act is a rhetorical one.
Even if they did act it might do nothing to stop it. It’s probably already in Europe.
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The National Public Health Emergency Team has recommended the wearing of masks for primary school children from 3rd class upwards.
The move will be reviewed in mid-February.
It has recommended that children aged nine and over wear masks on public transport, as well as in retail and other public settings where the rule currently applies for those aged 13 and over.
NPHET is also proposing that children avoid community gatherings for at least the next two weeks, including communions, nativity performances and other comparable seasonal events.
It has also proposed that indoor birthday parties, sleepovers and play dates are avoided, however small numbers could attend such events outdoors.
The missus was told by someone working for HSE that we’re only halfway into a 4 year cycle.
They claimed that all pandemics take 4 years to work themselves out or to less a virulent disease 
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How is it a nightmare scenario? Do the vaccines work or not work in preventing serious disease in the vast majority of people? Is this SA variant causing a more serious disease than Delta or prior variants? Unless the answer is yes you are scaremongering.
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January and February will be the acid test,
Waning vaccine efficacy aligned with normal uptick in seasonal respitory deaths will tell a lot.
ADE is a concern too. It could be a massive problem.
But we have a population where >90% are protected from serious disease.
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Masks for primary school kids is a disgrace.
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Nothing to do with SA having a 24% vaccination rate, you are right though we’ll have to draw up the shutters for good this time and hope the ECB will continue to fund the €350 a week PUP indefinitely for hundreds of thousands of workers. We need to shut the airports although that’s probably futile at this stage as it’s already here and about to let rip.
its obscene, I will not be complying with this nonsense.
this is the start of it now…you’ll see normal relativity sane , diplomatic , well heeled, compliant Joes like myself now push back on this …
this is scandalous