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CHILDREN USING THE bus to travel to and from school for the upcoming school year will have designated seats and will have to wear a face covering on board.
As part of the government’s €375 million plan to re-open schools at end of August, the Department of Education has revealed the rules that will be in place on School Transport Scheme services operated by Bus Éireann.
The scheme operates at both primary and post primary level.
The department says that the service will “fully operate as normal” but that a number of hygiene requirements will be in place.
The requirements include:
The government says that €11.3 million of the overall package has been set aside to support the additional costs that may arise as part of the School Transport Scheme.
Face coverings are already mandatory on public transport but the department has noted that school transport is different to public transport for a number of reasons and this has been taken into account.
Among these considerations, the department says that this is because school transport services “are controlled environments” due to each transport service carrying the same children on a daily basis.
“It is a restricted group of transport users which will facilitate contact tracing if required,” the department says.
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30 people is hardly much of a “study” this reads more like an add than a serious article
There’s also no controls; all couples are taking the supplement, all are also follow a healthy lifestyle…. and it’s being run by a nutritional supplements manufacturer, for feck sake!
Also, if this is the first study of its kind, why are they already selling it?
Does that mean that trials on other drugs should not be trusted,
Considering they are carried out and funded by the pharmaceutical companies who sell the drugs??
Seems like an add this article more than likely giving false hope to couples. When people are desperate they more than likely try anything. It is interesting to see no price in the article so I bet there is a nice price tag.
You’re spot on there Declan. You may also notice that they say that 12 couples who were taking the supplement went on to conceive but they conveniently neglect to tell us how many couples didn’t conceive.
Exactly. It’s not rocket science, if couples have sex, some of them with conceive. Is that 12 out of 12,000 over 5 years, or 12 out of 12 over a bank holiday weekend?
Your right there Declan I just checked out their website €170. As you said desperate couples will try anything, I know I was one of hose propel till 22mths ago. I had a lot of trouble conceiving and tbh if I had been told to sacrifice a cat on the full moon I’d of done it. But I think it was was once we started taking better care of ourselves,better diet exercising more etc and using ovulation kits. That did it for us now we did take pregncare supplements as €24:99 for 30 days so who knows
* one of those people* my little girl helped me write that comment
13 months and taking dictation? What kind of supplements were you taking?
Dear Author, this isn’t a clinical trial, it is an advertising campaign. It would help if you knew what a clinical trial involved before writing an article.
A clinical trial would involve
1. A sound biological basis for the study
2. Lots of evidence in animals etc to show that this “treatment” worked
3. Ethical approval – what happens if these pills make you sterile, or worse, cause harmful birth defects? Is the company insured against this?
4. Some level of medical input.
5. A control group
Please don’t write advertising pieces in the guise of reporting. It shows you either know nothing about medical trials, or that the journal is being paid to place advertisements posing as articles.
I agree this is a demo if anything.
If this were to be a proper trial 1 control, 1 placebo and the product
Galway…. I just love the white. Me & the burd absolutely shovelling the stuff into uz
We took the vitabiotics pregnacare, you can get them in every chemists, there’s ones for woman, couples ,pregnant women and breastfeeding mums. It’s a fairly common one. I have no idea if they helped. I truly feel it was eating healthier and doing to ovulation kit that helped us . Saying that we didn’t go crazy with taking temps etc. I got pee- strips online and used them , didn’t spend a fortune on digital stuff. I think baby making has become a huge cashcow of a business like weddings. Put the word bridal in front of something ie bridal shoes and you can charge through the nose for a white satin pair of shoes. My doctor did warn my not to put too much faith in supplements , he felt if we had a healthy balanced diet and lifestyle that we should need a supplement,told I was making expensive pee because at the end of the day your body is only gonna absorb what it needs.
“Over the 90-day trial each couple will take pre-Conceive daily – which is on sale already nationwide – and will also follow a healthy lifestyle regime.”
Well this certainly sounds like a flawlessly designed clinical study! Upon completion, we’re definitely going to know exactly what made the difference. Since this is “Europe’s first clinical study on how nutritional supplements can help fertility in both men and women” I suppose we can also expect to find out that both men and women should pay out for this expensive and remarkable product!
Wanna raise T? Zinc, magnesium supplements and Brazil nuts will make your lad as hard as a horse’s hoof. Believe me it’s fabulous.
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