Coronavirus - Remain Calm. Do Not Panic

There is more to it than just the health services capacity. Lower hospital numbers and incidence rates are also influenced by the, albeit slow, vaccination rates. People are also more educated on virus transmission and as a result are taking greater precautions including the use of masks. Lockdown is a vital part of it, but it only can do so much any more, as I think the issue of community transmission needs to be examined, and in truth, the likelihood is there are a great number of responsible people who are not mixing, and are abiding by the rules, and those that aren't. Also, there is a lot of focus on things like international travel, which seems not to have the impacts that people conjecture.

Borussia wrote: It's such an Irish thing to vote for a party because your parents voted for them !

Yeah that's fairly standard.

I'm glad my mother went into Labour I don't like to think what would have happend if she went into Tory with me

Artie Ziff wrote: I don't know what the rules are, if any, about access to vaccines outside of the EU block sourcing scheme. But it's not one of the areas I think I'd give the government a pass on.  Denmark gets mentioned a lot, and Prime Time covered it about two weeks ago and I only saw their figures as fractionally better than Ireland's at the time it was aired. This link today says they have vaccinated 10% so about the same as Ireland https://graphics.reuters.com/world-coronavirus-tracker-and-maps/countries-and-territories/denmark/ Austria bought 1m of the Russian Sputnik vaccine but they can't use it until the EMA approves it. So what happens if the EMA doesn't approve it? The Austrian government will look clueless if that happened.

the austrians don't need the ema to approve it. they can grant authorisation themselves. in the short term it may impact on the so-called vaccine passport the eu are looking into but the ema will probably approve the vaccine in the coming month or so anyway making that issue redundant. the hungarians have been distributing it to every man and his dog since february and would you blame them given the turmoil that country has gone through. 

Artie Ziff wrote: Austria bought 1m of the Russian Sputnik vaccine but they can't use it until the EMA approves it. So what happens if the EMA doesn't approve it? The Austrian government will look clueless if that happened.

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A million doses 

colemanY2K wrote: Artie Ziff wrote: I don't know what the rules are, if any, about access to vaccines outside of the EU block sourcing scheme. But it's not one of the areas I think I'd give the government a pass on.  Denmark gets mentioned a lot, and Prime Time covered it about two weeks ago and I only saw their figures as fractionally better than Ireland's at the time it was aired. This link today says they have vaccinated 10% so about the same as Ireland https://graphics.reuters.com/world-coronavirus-tracker-and-maps/countries-and-territories/denmark/ Austria bought 1m of the Russian Sputnik vaccine but they can't use it until the EMA approves it. So what happens if the EMA doesn't approve it? The Austrian government will look clueless if that happened.    the austrians don't need the ema to approve it. they can grant authorisation themselves. in the short term it may impact on the so-called vaccine passport the eu are looking into but the ema will probably approve the vaccine in the coming month or so anyway making that issue redundant. the hungarians have been distributing it to every man and his dog since february and would you blame them given the turmoil that country has gone through.

Good news, hopefully get back to matches in the Autumn.https://www.rte.ie/news/primetime/2021/0408/1208696-vaccine-passports-crowds-stadiums-gaa/