Brendan Burgess
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at some stage life has to go on. We can't remain locked down forever.
Possibly, as long as the sick knew they were sick and behaved as they should have behaved.I don't believe for one second that overall public health would be in a worse position now if sick people ( symptomatic) had stayed at home until they were well, the vulnerable had been protected and the rest of us had gotten on with it.
I agree 100%. In the majority of cases 'Underlying Condition' means fat. This, for the most part, is a disease of the fat. I'd love to see the stat's on obesity and mortality here as they relate to Covid.We also need to have an adult conversation with the 60% + of the population who can't ditch the couch, the remote , the Pringles and the Cadburys.
I agree.If we spent a fraction of the €35bn, borrowed to deal with a virus that is harmless to most, successfully getting them to do just that the outcomes from Covid, long Covid and a host of other illnesses would be drastically improved.
Or people are just a bit dense, and despite all the advice cannot follow simple guidelines on how to prevent the spread of the virus.A blind man would see that the vaccination is only partly working and not testing or treating vaccinated as close contacts is helping fuel increases ..
Or people are just a bit dense, and despite all the advice cannot follow simple guidelines on how to prevent the spread of the virus.
When this vaccine(s) were released it was abundantly clear to anyone that isn't a turnip that mask wearing, keeping your distance and sanitation of hands was also required.
It's not just the unvaccinated passing it around, but given that the vaccine is 95% effective at preventing severe cases involving ICU \ hospitalisation, and reduces your chances of being infected and transmitting it by something like 50%... we have a much better chance of coping with the breakthrough infections \ leaky transmissions from the vaccinated v the unprotected unvaccinated. Given that the vast majority of the adult population is vaccinated and especially in vulnerable older cohorts, but the majoirty of ICU patients are unvaccinated... that's testament to the power of the "Only so effective" vaccines.The vaccine doesn't come without risk and is obviously only so effective so it's not hard to see why some people are sceptical .It's not just the unvaccinated passing it around
You are simply reinforcing the advice given by the manufacturers for almost 10 months.The vaccine doesn't come without risk and is obviously only so effective so it's not hard to see why some people are sceptical .It's not just the unvaccinated passing it around
It's the anti vaxxers are scaremongering right ? How common is this instance?
I'm expecting to die in my eighties. With or without a vaccine will me developing COVID 19 in the interim change that expectation?
When it started we were treated to video clips from China telling us that this was like the Black Death. Ironically the same people who spread that misinformation not seem to make up a large part of the anti-vaxer/conspiracy theory cohort.When all this started we hadn't a clue, in fact the sense of community and altruism sprouted every where.
Its not as if solutions were going to fall from the sky in fact it took science, it took sacrifice, it took so much good of the human psyche that was re-awakened and the world worked in unison to find a solution.
Solutions are hard to find, and if they were easy to find the ills of our planet would not be present, but they are.
But solutions were found for Covid 19 indeed they were solutions that would have never found if the laws of commerce or greed were left to find a solution.
Well she didn't discover radiation, but she was a great scientist, and her poor husband has been ignored by history and yes, it almost always happens the other way around (look up Rosalind Franklin).When Madam Curie discovered radiation and saw the application to health most decried it , she died and had 2 Nobles, her daughter also got one, btw.
It's a great victory for the hope science can bring.These vaccines aren't perfect they hold risks but they also hold hope, and hope isn't licked off the floor, it needs work, it needs planting, nurturing and sharing.
Well said.Those who will always be begrudgingly in the "high grass" ye matter little as we as the rest of us are better and we know what's needed by our fellow citizens.
So, get up the yard those who want to find fault.
One third of all covid deaths here were in under 80.
If you are over 41, you are at higher risk of mortality if you have a condition such a diabetes, COPD, hypertension, heart disease.
The risk increases again if you are over 70, with or without such conditions.
And many Irish people develop such conditions as they get older.
Vaccines reduce the risk of hospitalisation and death by 95%.
COVID-19 patients with underlying diseases, male patients, and those above 41y have an increased risk of death. Particularly, age was confirmed as the most important factor positively correlated with mortality rather than the presence or absence of underlying diseases in those aged above 71y.
Mortality Rate of Patients With COVID-19 Based on Underlying Health Conditions
The aim of this study was to evaluate the mortality rates of 566,602 patients with coronavirus disease (COVID-19) based on sex, age, and the presence or absence of underlying diseases and determine whether the underlying disease provides prognostic information ...www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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