Breda O’Brien is not keeping up to speed on communicability of Covid.
"I have heard young men express the belief that the risks of getting vaccinated are higher than getting Covid-19, because being young, healthy and fit means that their chances of severe infection are low.
These kind young men, who would help any elderly person to cross the road and then carry the shopping home, cannot seem to internalise that their decision to avoid vaccination imperils the vulnerable.”
It is now generally agreed that the non-vaccinated infected and the vaccinated with another infection are equal in terms of the capacity to infect other people. Why then is she pointing the finger at unvaxxed young people who would in normal times help the infirm elderly cross the road saying they are now putting those same people at risk, throwing them under the Covid bus so to speak. Perfect fear casts out reason.
Each year the flu season packs the hospitals and creates a shortage of beds, ordinary and icu. By European standards Ireland is under bedded. Pre-Covid there were 225 ICU beds, now there are 290. Forty Billion Euros have been spent funding an emergency which has 99% survival rate. Where are the extra beds which were needed even in the normal year. Quangos and waffle-meisters are sleeping in feather beds.
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