Ireland's Calling for Normal Life to Return, thread number 5

[eggandonion]

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@Radyward where do you live? I'm confused

I used to love Switzers, your post brought back lots of memories @mathanxiety, the Christmas windows, queuing to see Santa, the blue and white striped carrier bags. My mum's office was on Suffolk St, and during the school holidays I would go to work with her. When I was a bit older I was allowed out for a wander around the shops. Switzers toy dept was in the basement where BTs men's department is now. My absolute favourite haunt was Brown Thomas stationary dept, on the corner of Duke St. where M&S have their cafe now. I used to spend all my pocket money there on pencils, notebooks and novelty erasers!

I remember being stuck in traffic jams on Grafton st, and when McDondalds opened their first outlet on Grafton St, the queues outside. The girls in the office used to buy cream buns from the Kylemore bakery at the bottom on the street for elevenses. Happy days!

From what I was listening to earlier on the radio they seemed to be suggesting that AZ don't have a production problem, more that they gave the some of the vaccines allocated to the EU to another country.

Totally agree. Pfizer have said it needs to be administered a certain way, that's the way it was tested. Why would we change that?? It's so frustrating. I obviously don't understand all the ins and outs as a layperson but I've read that lots of medical and scientific professionals are raising concerns. I'd rather they just did what they were told to do with it instead of making up their own rules!!

Look. The problem with eu wide distribution is the actual vaccine transportation. Its already transported to NI . How east is it to go over the border
Stephen Donnelly was slapped down when he tried to stockpile / pre-order. UK are marching ahead

I'm fed up, I live in pharmaceutical central. We must have loads of big fridges near us, let's go and march on Pfizer fuzzy. We had a lovely pharmacy student in our local Boots, he qualified last year and has been swabbing, I vote we employ him to vaccinate us.

Radyward where do you live? I'm confused
I think Radywell is as confused about that as the rest of us.

'The UK is marching ahead'. I don't view this as a race between countries. I would like the vaccination programme to be safe and done properly and rolled out as soon as possible. I hope they give priority to the medics as they are are going through so much.

I have a set of Sharpies and colouring pencils, eggandonion. I'll go make a flag

EU are not happy with AstraZeneca. The delay in the EU/Ireland receiving doses appears to be because they were sold to Third Countries (uk?).

eggandonion
Dr. Adrian Hill is the Irishman who worked on the Oxford vaccine

@SwimmingOnEggshells

EU are not happy with AstraZeneca. The delay in the EU/Ireland receiving doses appears to be because they were sold to Third Countries (uk?).

Proper order too after the EU invested in AstraZeneca!

AstraZeneca and Oxford are the same vaccine aren't they?

Have to confess I don't know too much about the different vaccines.

Dr Tessa Lambe from Kilcullen is also part of the Oxford Team who worked night and day on it. They had a vaccine base stored and then when C19 kicked off worked off data from covid 19 to add to said base and quickly produce an effective vaccine (-according to C4 documentary) . Tessa lambe is ex Trinity graduate. The main woman ( cant think of her name -red hair) behind the oxford one plus the irish Dr Adrian are set to make millions- well good luck to them . They have stakes in Az apparantly.(Dont know how true that is). Its all very sus' regarding brexit and possibly dirty trix going on between eu and uk and AZ. Just supply as much as possible and distribute fairly. Looking at hse jobs there. Omg just saw uk qualifications wont be recognised to work in EU !!! Is this true ???

I have decided to stop looking at news just so upsettinh. Just head down until March. Keeep the kids going as much as possible .jobs going and try and keep the spirits up.so hard no school. No visits. Nothing to do except clean so depressing. My brother is a psch consultant. Its unreal how lockdowns are affecting the middle aged !not a word about our mental health in all this. But look we just have ti hope personal freedoms are restored

@HaHaVeryBunny YY to the long hall and the rows of dental chairs. The floor was always shining, and iirc there were big windows on one side so I could look out while I sat there getting casts made and waiting for yet another group of students to swing by and gasp. The waiting room was on the street side of the building I think, with the long exam hall at the back, overlooking a corner of Trinity's campus.

I also remember buying jam doughnuts in the Kylemore bakery at the bottom of Grafton Street @anomletteandaglassofwine . It was so nice to get home, put on the kettle, sit down with a cup of tea and open the bag with the doughnut inside. I made my own wedding invitations and bought the stationery at BT's.

I have to go to the dentist today. Put it off long enough. I am really hoping that they can fox the pain with just a filling and it's not something else. Had to get up at 5.30am to take a pain killer.

Fix the pain not Fox the pain. Stupid fat fingers.

Just listening to lrish radio and their European correspond was hinting ^very heavily that the missing AZ vaccine (meaning Europe will get 60% less than what was agreed and paid for) was sold to the UK and Israel.

@Iblinkedandiamold good luck hope its as quick and painless as possible!

Nothing as bad as toothache, I hope you get sorted today @Iblinkedandiamold

I didn't watch it but I read about Leo on the Claire Byrne show last night, apparently if we go down the route of forcing quarantine in a hotel it will be in place for at least a year?! And he was saying that people wouldn't get home for Christmas this year as the rules allowing people into the country would be very strict and limited to essential travel only etc. God it was a depressing read...

But...we didn't like people coming home for Christmas, did we? Basically we really all want whatever suits us best in our own family by this point! Other people are a nuisance if they want something else.

I'm so fed up with optimism for things getting better, and vaccine delivery, then lockdown because figures are bad and vaccine delivery chaos.

That's true @eggandonion I just didn't think it would go on into 2022, I had such high hopes for 2021 and now it seems like this year is just a write-off and that's quite hard to swallow. Necessary etc. but still hard.

God I really hope we get an April & May like we did last year!!

A good friend of mine is hoping to have her wedding in November this year. I really thought things would be in a better way to go ahead with a traditional large wedding by then. As the days go by, I'm really it so sure anymore. It's hard going.

• not so sure

My ds has a wedding invitation for July and one for August. Unlikely to happen. My daughters have a concert in September postponed from last year.
My social diary is empty, apart from the bin schedule.

Can't believe they are planning on opening schools from February. Starting with special needs, the most vulnerable ☹️ like what on earth?! So glad I got dd signed off for full term. No way I'd be happy sending her in with other very ill children and close contact with teachers and sna's.

I'm guessing that the reason for numbers being low for positive cases is because they've stopped testing for close contacts? Mil phoned last night, niece who has been shopping for them etc tested positive last week, she hasn't been careful, and mil rang the gp for her and fil to be tested as niece was in the house and gp said they stopped testing close contacts and only if you have symptoms, so that's shit, as it means lots could be walking around with it.

I knew a family who were tested recently, one had symptoms and they were told by their gp to say that they all had coughs. Only one was positive, all were tested. It's not great that people fib to get tests.
Norma is determined to get the schools back!