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Covid 19 Part XXXIV-249,437 ROI(4,906 deaths) 120,195 NI (2,145 deaths)(01/05)Read OP

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  • #1472
    ninebeanrows
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,780 ✭✭✭✭ninebeanrows


    Rebelbrowser wrote: »
    There is some amount of tinfoil hat conspiracy theory nonsense on here. With the exception of a few academics definitely milking this, 99% of people, including NPHET want this over. Again, there is no them and us. NPHET members also presumably have grandparents, school going kids, friends they can't meet for a pint, etc just like the rest of us.

    NPHET kept quite significant restrictions in place last summer when we were recording 7 cases per day. How could you trust them with anything? They are ultra conservative and have no idea of nuance in their advice.

    NEPHET have illustrated they have no nuance and every other need is secondary to the suppression of COVID.


  • #1473
    Golfman64
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 314 ✭✭Golfman64


    hotmail.com wrote: »
    Tennis and golf could have a delayed reopening it seems.

    They'll probably align them with the return of schools on the 12th so that they have something else to blame when cases rise again, once they go back. They've already used up playdates, household transmission and general community prevelance. 'It's the mothers and fathers playing golf while the kids are at school that are causing the issues!'

    Mind boggling that these were ever stopped to be fair!


  • #1474
    Kunta Kinte
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 718 ✭✭✭Kunta Kinte


    Rebelbrowser wrote: »
    There is some amount of tinfoil hat conspiracy theory nonsense on here. With the exception of a few academics definitely milking this, 99% of people, including NPHET want this over. Again, there is no them and us. NPHET members also presumably have grandparents, school going kids, friends they can't meet for a pint, etc just like the rest of us.

    But but don`t you know that the evil Emperor Tony, his dastardly assistant Ronan and the evil NPHET junta want world domination? According to some on this forum anyway.:rolleyes::rolleyes:


  • #1475
    RGS
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 746 ✭✭✭RGS


    Rebelbrowser wrote: »
    There is some amount of tinfoil hat conspiracy theory nonsense on here. With the exception of a few academics definitely milking this, 99% of people, including NPHET want this over. Again, there is no them and us. NPHET members also presumably have grandparents, school going kids, friends they can't meet for a pint, etc just like the rest of us.



    Maybe but as medics they do not see anything beyond a medical problem. They have their 6 figure salaries, their PS pensions, they are insulated from the decisions they make.


    They are looking at this from 1 issue only--COVID--nothing else matters to them. If they could save every covid patient from death they would.


    That's where our inept government need to grow balls and look at the entire complex picture of society, economy and societal health.


  • #1476
    covidrelease
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 229 ✭✭covidrelease


    ninebeanrows wrote: »
    NPHET kept quite significant restrictions in place last summer when we were recording 7 cases per day. How could you trust them with anything? They are ultra conservative and have no idea of nuance in their advice.

    NEPHET have illustrated they have no nuance and every other need is secondary to the suppression of COVID.

    But we are now dealing with a new virus, according to FF, no other country has to deal with it so that is why we need to be so cautious this year.


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  • #1477
    Kunta Kinte
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 718 ✭✭✭Kunta Kinte


    Golfman64 wrote: »
    They'll probably align them with the return of schools on the 12th so that they have something else to blame when cases rise again, once they go back. They've already used up playdates, household transmission and general community prevelance. 'It's the mothers and fathers playing golf while the kids are at school that are causing the issues!'

    Mind boggling that these were ever stopped to be fair!

    Going by your username I imagine you`re fond of the odd round of golf yourself.


  • #1478
    CoronaBlocker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 247 ✭✭CoronaBlocker


    retro:electro wrote: »
    He is an absolutely pathetic person

    George Lee: RTE’s environment and science correspondent.
    Though, to my knowledge, he has absolutely no knowledge, education or experience in the fields he is a national reporter on (environment and science) - during a pandemic. And, I may be wrong, but I don't even believe he is qualified as a journalist.

    Edit: Apologies if I'm wrong - I'm just working off memory.


  • #1479
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,121 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    gozunda wrote: »
    Nope. You're obsession with dates of references is definitely silly. Especially where they show - as detailed restrictions have been policed there. And you must have missed it I posted yet another updated link and you're still complaining. :rolleyes: :pac:

    Not engaging with this process of fact checking your nonsense of taped up benches and overzealous police activity in the UK. So post all the links you want. Your desperation to present a certain narrative, irrespective of the reality, is really quite astonishing. Something more going on there I feel.....

    It’s irrelevant now as there are no longer restrictions on movement in the UK. The ‘stay local’ mantra is guidance only. Indeed Matt Hancock said publicly today you can travel across the country to see friends and family this Easter, as he is.

    It’s how it should be in Ireland. Get people outside so that they don’t go inside. Allow people to travel across the country to see family and friends outside who they might not have seen for months. Restricting people from doing this is evidence of such an incredible loss of proportionality by NPHET and the government


  • #1480
    Golfman64
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 314 ✭✭Golfman64


    Kunta Kinte wrote: »
    Going by your username I imagine you`re fond of the odd round of golf yourself.

    I don't think it's wise for you to pick on other peoples user names for a jibe ;)

    So you think Golf and Tennis should have been stopped while public parks remained open?!


  • #1481
    covidrelease
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 229 ✭✭covidrelease


    Kunta Kinte wrote: »
    Going by your username I imagine you`re fond of the odd round of golf yourself.

    Are you a Negro?

    Mod: 3 day forum ban applied - this is not acceptable posting


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  • #1482
    CIARAN_BOYLE
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,595 ✭✭✭✭CIARAN_BOYLE


    CoronaBlocker wrote: »
    George Lee: RTE’s environment and science correspondent.
    Though, to my knowledge, he has absolutely no knowledge, education or experience in the fields he is a national reporter on (environment and science) - during a pandemic. And, I may be wrong, but I don't even believe he is qualified as a journalist.

    Edit: Apologies if I'm wrong - I'm just working off memory.

    He was economics correspondent before he took a break from rte and went into politics.

    He was actually decent in that role.

    He came back as a junior advisor to the business desk then the agriculture correspondent and then shifted to science iirc.

    Basically he took a career break and rte handed someone else his job but had to take him back anyway so he has been doing other jobs he isn't as good at.


  • #1483
    Jim_Hodge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,305 ✭✭✭✭Jim_Hodge


    CoronaBlocker wrote: »
    George Lee: RTE’s environment and science correspondent.
    Though, to my knowledge, he has absolutely no knowledge, education or experience in the fields he is a national reporter on (environment and science) - during a pandemic. And, I may be wrong, but I don't even believe he is qualified as a journalist.

    Edit: Apologies if I'm wrong - I'm just working off memory.

    He has an MSc in Economics. That's about it.


  • #1484
    Hooked
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,936 ✭✭✭Hooked


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Not engaging with this process of fact checking your nonsense of taped up benches and overzealous police activity in the UK. So post all the links you want. Your desperation to present a certain narrative, irrespective of the reality, is really quite astonishing. Something more going on there I feel.....

    It’s irrelevant now as there are no longer restrictions on movement in the UK. The ‘stay local’ mantra is guidance only. Indeed Matt Hancock said publicly today you can travel across the country to see friends and family this Easter, as he is.

    It’s how it should be in Ireland. Get people outside so that they don’t go inside. Allow people to travel across the country to see family and friends outside who they might not have seen for months. Restricting people from doing this is evidence of such an incredible loss of proportionality by NPHET and the government

    this. x 1,000,000


  • #1485
    Nqp15hhu
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,254 ✭✭✭Nqp15hhu


    There was only 65 cases in Northern Ireland yesterday! Amazing!


  • #1486
    CoronaBlocker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 247 ✭✭CoronaBlocker


    CIARAN_BOYLE wrote: »
    He was economics correspondent before he took a break from rte and went into politics.

    He was actually decent in that role.

    He came back as a junior advisor to the business desk then the agriculture correspondent and then shifted to science iirc.

    Basically he took a career break and rte handed someone else his job but had to take him back anyway so he has been doing other jobs he isn't as good at.

    Or qualified to do. Yet here he is - freaking out the nation, nightly!


  • #1487
    Happydays2020
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,677 ✭✭✭Happydays2020


    km79 wrote: »
    Well now .........NPHET wanted to wait for the weekend data to make a more informed decision
    There it is

    I listened to negativity all weekend (shame on me)

    Sometimes one wonders whether we are back in the first week of a January again.

    That was genuinely worrying and people made enormous sacrifices. Meanwhile the finger wagging went on in respect to a meaningful Christmas (and we know it was not for most of us).


  • #1488
    KrustyUCC
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,093 ✭✭✭KrustyUCC


    jhegarty wrote: »
    Monday :
    Positive Swabs : 498
    Positivity Rate : 3.69%


    Sunday :
    Positive Swabs : 603
    Positivity Rate : 3.07%

    https://twitter.com/COVID19DataIE/status/1374319998454366209

    8 less positive swabs on 785 more tests than this day last week

    Not bad at all


  • #1489
    CoronaBlocker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 247 ✭✭CoronaBlocker


    Jim_Hodge wrote: »
    He has an MSc in Economics. That's about it.

    Ye, that chimes in with my thinking. Wildly irresponsible to have someone like that in a role like he has at a time like this. RTE should have shifted their cards around when this all kicked off... but then, it's not the first thing RTE needed to do but didn't.

    Shambles, Bill.


  • #1490
    CoronaBlocker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 247 ✭✭CoronaBlocker


    So it would appear, after a brief googling, that George Lee is neither a qualified journalist nor an expert in either the environment or science - the two fields he is journalisming in for the nation.

    [Edit: George Lee doesn't just report or present facts. He gives his own opinions and summations and that is, to be fair, a terrible thing to do at a time like this. He is the opposite of an expert.]

    I am now going to apply for a job as lead engineer in aerodynamics at the McLaren Formula 1 team. I mean, I'm not an engineer and nor do I have any prior working experience - or even knowledge - of aerodynamics... but why should that stop me?!


  • #1491
    CoronaBlocker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 247 ✭✭CoronaBlocker


    Now, let's take a closer look at the experience of school teacher Micheál Martin...
    Hashtag facepalm


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  • #1492
    Mitch Connor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 48,430 ✭✭✭✭Mitch Connor


    CoronaBlocker wrote: »
    So it would appear, after a brief googling, that George Lee is neither a qualified journalist nor an expert in either the environment or science - the two fields he is journalisming in for the nation.

    I am now going to apply for a job as lead engineer in aerodynamics at the McLaren Formula 1 team. I mean, I'm not an engineer and nor do I have any prior working experience - or even knowledge - of aerodynamics... but why should that stop me?!

    the apt comparison would be applying to report on Merc Engineering


  • #1493
    Deeper Blue
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,501 ✭✭✭Deeper Blue


    The only thing George Lee should be reporting on is how long the queues are at his local dole office


  • #1494
    covidrelease
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 229 ✭✭covidrelease


    CoronaBlocker wrote: »
    Now, let's take a closer look at the experience of school teacher Micheál Martin...
    Hashtag facepalm

    Pass the puke bucket.


  • #1495
    BigMo1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 399 ✭✭BigMo1


    Deeper Blue wrote: »
    The only thing George Lee should be reporting on is how long the queues are at his local dole office

    Based on recent performance, he should be on the queue itself.


  • #1496
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 9,005 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    CoronaBlocker wrote: »
    So it would appear, after a brief googling, that George Lee is neither a qualified journalist nor an expert in either the environment or science - the two fields he is journalisming in for the nation.

    [Edit: George Lee doesn't just report or present facts. He gives his own opinions and summations and that is, to be fair, a terrible thing to do at a time like this. He is the opposite of an expert.]

    I am now going to apply for a job as lead engineer in aerodynamics at the McLaren Formula 1 team. I mean, I'm not an engineer and nor do I have any prior working experience - or even knowledge - of aerodynamics... but why should that stop me?!

    I believe economics is considered a science. Could be wrong though.


  • #1497
    Sweet.Science
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,093 ✭✭✭Sweet.Science


    Great numbers today . Considering mother's day , Cheltenham and people being outdoors without masks on .


  • #1498
    CoronaBlocker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 247 ✭✭CoronaBlocker


    Deleted User wrote: »
    I believe economics is considered a science. Could be wrong though.

    A social science, yes.


  • #1499
    Normal One
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 355 ✭✭Normal One


    I couldn't give a flying flip what George and Co. report or opinionate on were I not forced under duress to pay for the ****e (sorry, I got another TV licence reminder this morning).


  • #1500
    caveat emptor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,134 ✭✭✭caveat emptor


    CoronaBlocker wrote: »
    .........

    I am now going to apply for a job as lead engineer in aerodynamics at the McLaren Formula 1 team. I mean, I'm not an engineer and nor do I have any prior working experience - or even knowledge - of aerodynamics... but why should that stop me?!

    Yeah sure why not. It all depends on who you know. I've even heard of a car sales man who became a CEO of a certain private hospital. Reach for the stars. :pac:


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  • #1501
    KrustyUCC
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,093 ✭✭✭KrustyUCC


    No NPHET briefing later on


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