Relaxation of Restrictions, Part IX *Read OP For Mod Warnings*

Deleted User wrote: »

People spouting sh*te does not equate to balanced media.

They provide an opposition. There's no opposition in Ireland. It's the only democratic country in the world where there's no opposition.

[Deleted User] wrote: »

They provide an opposition. There's no opposition in Ireland. It's the only democratic country in the world where there's no opposition.

Opposition is not rolling out complete sh*te for the sake of it

Deleted User wrote: »

Opposition is not rolling out complete sh*te for the sake of it

On Talk Radio, for example, they regularly interview Professor Hugh Pennington, Professor David Salisbury, among others. All Irish media outlets interview the same 4 or 5 people. No opposition, no alternative viewpoint.

It's irrelevant what you think about the media outlets I mentioned. It doesn't change the fact that they provide an alternative viewpoint that is not heard in Ireland, be it in the media or in the Dáil.

Deleted User wrote: »

On Talk Radio, for example, they regularly interview Professor Hugh Pennington, Professor David Salisbury, among others. All Irish media outlets interview the same 4 or 5 people. No opposition, no alternative viewpoint.

It's irrelevant what you think about the media outlets I mentioned. It doesn't change the fact that they provide an alternative viewpoint that is not heard in Ireland, be it in the media or in the Dáil.

Those speakers just parrot the same view.

It's embarrassing.

NPHET a la intellectuals.

[Deleted User] wrote: »

On Talk Radio, for example, they regularly interview Professor Hugh Pennington, Professor David Salisbury, among others. All Irish media outlets interview the same 4 or 5 people. No opposition, no alternative viewpoint.

It's irrelevant what you think about the media outlets I mentioned. It doesn't change the fact that they provide an alternative viewpoint that is not heard in Ireland, be it in the media or in the Dáil.

Country of 5 million people having less epidemiology experts than one with 50million shocker. If 5% of experts go against the grain you are more likely to find a few of them in a large country.
Having said that, Luke O’Neill is always on the media and since the vaccines has been extremely positive. The likes of Kingston mills is very balanced. This thread only wants to listen to mcconkey and their ilk so they can continue to whip themselves into a frenzy about how negative the media is, choosing to get angry rather than read balanced views that are widely available

FintanMcluskey wrote: »

I do like Ronan G.

He’s a warmer individual than his predecessor, he talks like he’s one of us

Seems to have a gentle nature

I don't.

He's what I refer to as the Eternal Prefect; back to school to collect the awards for being Mr. Nice Guy.

You cannot trust someone as quiet and seemingly humble as him.

He is Chairman Holohan with a dress and badly waxed hair.

Deleted User wrote: »

The is tiresome at this stage. Actions were taken that changed outcome. There is a concept called cause and effect.

Now why is this seasonal virus that has fallen since Christmas because the virus season is ending now surging once more in lots of Eastern Europe? Surely the “experts” who predicted a winter surge followed by a fall off as happens with endemic viruses every year cannot be wrong. They are not charlatans proffering easy answers to build a contrarian name for themselves by any chance?

This is tiresome at this stage.

Surges do not preclude seasonality, particularly in the presence of new, more transmissible variants. It is entirely possible, if not probable, that Covid-19 has a seasonal element to it and that a surge in Eastern European countries is being caused by the much more transmissible UK variant (it is).

Seasonal does not mean that it disappears completely during the summer, just that it is much less common then. Indeed, the double-whammy of seasonality combined with close proximity to the origin of the UK variant (and a few other factors, including our population being so massively concentrated in one small-ish city) could well explain why Ireland shot so quickly to the highest numbers in the world in December/January. And why, as that variant has spread, the picture has changed with it.

I can understand why surges in other locations would be alarming if you were one of the people who held that The Irish are just a bunch of very naughty lads and committed some sort of heresy at Christmas time by visiting with family and patronising opened businesses. On the other hand, if you recognised that Ireland's large surge was a result of the arrival of the UK variant, then the fact that other places a little further afield are seeing that same surge with that same variant should not come as a surprise.

Silentcorner wrote: »

You do realize that all viral infections do not behave the same way in every country for a myriad of reasons....all we need to be concerned with is ours.

You can't name an expert on Irish media who has been accurate in their assessment on how Covid will behave but there are plenty of experts out there who have been accurate...who correctly predicted how this was going to go...

I showed you a video of one such person and you called him a loon...he was anti lock down advocating a Swedish approach....I spoke with you before about alternate opinions on media and you dismissed the possibility as catering to loons on the internet I think was how you put it.

It's not my fault you haven't exposed yourself to alternate opinions on vital issues regarding Covid...if you could show me one expert, just one, who has been consistently accurate then I'd happily listen to them....but you can't even do that!!!

Christ almighty. Cause and effect exists. Nobody, not least the good Limerick doctor predicted what would happen with massive restrictions. They made predictions based on uncontrolled spread.

Now choose to believe that because I can see through the empty rhetoric of charlatans is evidence of not taking alternative viewpoints.

It’s obvious though you have swallowed the contrarian koolaid, and at every point that your heroes lies are shown up will retreat to the next easy answer. Up to this week it was “seasonal”. Now that many countries are starting a second winter/spring surge it will pivot to something else. The talking points have not emerged yet do all you can say is “different countries, myriad of reason” until your heroes come up with the next easy answer.

Thank Christ the vaccine will rid us of this soon enough, but your heroes will claim is was actually exactly as they predicted and nothing to do with vaccines and you no doubt will lap up every word