COVID again

You can get it no matter how many jabs you’ve had, and pass it on. The benefit of having them are symptoms supposedly lessen. The jabs aren’t a cure. As has been said above we’ll have to learn to live with this thing for a long time to come. Hopefully we won’t get to the point of everything stopping again..not sure folk will be as tolerant if they have to go through any lock downs again, or things getting called off - be it music, sports, pubs etc

Quoted from marinerjase

You can get it no matter how many jabs you’ve had, and pass it on. The benefit of having them are symptoms supposedly lessen. The jabs aren’t a cure. As has been said above we’ll have to learn to live with this thing for a long time to come. Hopefully we won’t get to the point of everything stopping again..not sure folk will be as tolerant if they have to go through any lock downs again, or things getting called off - be it music, sports, pubs etc

With you on this - research shows that for the generally healthy, the most resilient immunity comes from vaccination and exposure to the virus. Sadly, those with underlying health conditions may have to have more restrictive lifestyles but like with flu, people will have their yearly jabs to protect them as much as possible.

Quoted from Limerick Mariner

With you on this - research shows that for the generally healthy, the most resilient immunity comes from vaccination and exposure to the virus. Sadly, those with underlying health conditions may have to have more restrictive lifestyles but like with flu, people will have their yearly jabs to protect them as much as possible.

And that means a bigger % of the population need to get themselves vaccinated to help protect the vulnerable.

Quoted from Kris2

It's certainly not going away no matter what we do. We are at least becoming better equipped at dealing with outbreaks but we tried containment and vaccination, it's still evolving and here to stay. The only way to not get it is to barely go anywhere or be lucky.

Not very well. Vaccination has been OK but the containment has been shîte, leading to more cases and more mutations, which undermines the vaccines a bit.

Unlikely we'll ever get sterilising immunity with vaccines for this virus, but boosters which target the newest variants will probably become the norm for those over 50 or perhaps over 60, just as they are with flu. It isn't the flu, however, which only causes a couple of thousand deaths most years and very rarely causes long-term symptoms in previously young and healthy people like 'Long Covid'. It wouldn't surprise me if younger people were offered a booster before next winter, though we need to get them fully vaccinated first, of course.

Various antiviral treatments are being developed and some of those should be available in the UK some time next month - Molnupiravir reportedly reduces the risks of hospitalisation/death by as much as 50% if you take the course of pills early enough but it will only be the elderly/those at risk given this medication. I think that's why the government are making the mistake of holding off from 'Plan B' (i.e. not doing much more other than requiring people to wear masks indoors again). They are hopelessly wrong, of course, as all the medical and public health experts are pointing out, but it's what we expect from this government. Doing nothing makes a lockdown much more likely.

It would be nice if we could get vaccines to children, but the way things are going, most of them will become infected before anything is authorised so I've just got my fingers-crossed that my kids won't get too poorly from it. Absolutely no chance of avoiding infection in the longer term due to the obvious 'herd immunity' plan put in place by our useless government.

Masses of sickness at work, nothing to do with Covid and everything to do with everything with the fact last year nobody seemed to get a cold or flu.

1 single positive Covid test this term and the pupil has only actually attended school a couple of weeks anyway. Pupil was vaccinated, it is what it is.

Crack the intercourse on, people are slowly going back to the life they had and want…

Without this thread descending in to yet another Covid thread, we’ve got the depth to the squad, we know we’ve a strong team and the mood in the camp and around the club is Uber postive so I’m not really concerned…

Sounds like couple of changes to squad which is more than fine for the depth we have atm

So, any clues as to who'll be missing and will it make a big difference?

Quoted from buckstown

So, any clues as to who'll be missing and will it make a big difference?

I know one of the players who is out but I won't name him as Hurst clearly doesn't want to let the opposition know, otherwise he would have named names.

Let's just say he will be a big miss but It's a squad game and you can lose players at any time.

Quoted from buckstown

So, any clues as to who'll be missing and will it make a big difference?

Reading between the lines it sounded like it was up front....so make of that what you will.....only thing we do know is Macatee is fit, thank god🙏