Turkey For One [Updated]

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This afternoon.

Close contacts of confirmed Covid-19 cases may have to restrict their movements and stay at home over Christmas, under new measures to be considered by NPHET when it meets.

Currently people do not have to restrict their movements if they are a non-household close contact and are fully vaccinated.

Further NPHET recommendations expected – Varadkar (RTÉ)

Meanwhile..

Dr Mary Favier, Covid advisor for the Irish College of General Practitioners, says people who test positive for Covid-19 from tomorrow will have to self-isolate on Christmas Day.

This morning.

Via RTÉ News:

Dr Mary Favier, Covid advisor for the Irish College of General Practitioners, said that the whole population has to face Covid-19 again and there is likely to be a very big surge as a result of the Omicron variant.

Speaking on RTÉ’s Morning Ireland, Dr Favier said the anticipated volume of cases resulting from the highly infectious variant will present difficulties, even though the variant appears to cause less serious illnesses.

“People should remember that if they have a Covid-positive test tomorrow they are now in self-isolation on Christmas Day,” she said.

“So it’s our personal behaviors in the next few days that will make a difference to how we manage Christmas and how we manage the next surge.”

Christmas in isolation for Covid cases from tomorrow (RTÉ)

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26 thoughts on “Turkey For One [Updated]”

  1. freewheeling

    Not exactly encouragement to get tested then, is it Dr. Mary?
    Watch the Covid case numbers drop from now until Christmas ;)

    Seriously, when will these people just stop mouthing off.

    1. NotSpencerTunick

      Nod POLITELY and then proceed to go about YOUR BUSINESS as you see fit. Do not approach these people as they are DERANGED AND DANGEROUS. We bide our time but our time will come. #PEACEFUL AND NON VIOLENT

    2. Paddy

      Maybe a few wooden cattle carts for rail network Ireland instead of the 750 new electric dart carriages at close to €3 billion are needed
      Maybe internment camps for anti vaxers

  3. Frank

    I’d love to test positive and have to isolate with the telly!!!
    “Yes dear can you leave the food outside the door and tell the kids to keep the noise down. Me auld Covid is killing me, cough, splutter”.
    “Oh I’d love to go over to your dreadful family but it’s the auld Covid my dear. cough, cough splutter”
    “Bad news my sweet! sadly it looks like I’m coming down with the auld long Covid, sniffle, parp, cough”

    2. Paddy

      Bit like the HAGS joke
      With the punch line of quarantine with a diet of pizzas because it’s the only thing we can slide under the door

  5. Hank

    Omicron appears to be very similar to that annual flu virus that we seem to have misplaced about a year ago..

  6. wearnicehats

    I think that from now on that, every time someone writes or mentions Omicron they need to add (Persei 8)

    Ideally they should further embellish is with a quote from the great Lrrr. I’ll kick it off:

    If you do not give us what we want, we will raise the temperature of the earth one million degrees a day, for five days

    It would also be fun if mehole and the rest now started their speeches with “People of Earth” or “puny Earthlings”

    No-one is actually going to take Dr Favier seriously so let’s all have a little light relief with this Omicron thingy

  8. freewheeling

    Ya know wha Tony? “Currently people do not have to restrict their movements if …” they do not wish to.

    Happy Crimbo Tony – take the day off.

  9. ce

    Varadkar – I don’t think there will be restrictions

    Varadkar – I don’t get why we have restrictions even though I signed off on them

    Varadkar – I don’t think there will be anymore restrictions

    Varadkar – Likely to have more restrictions

    As a certain Sheehan said “go back to making tik tok videos”

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