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

Are you actually going to respond about the issues I raised or just attach some random quote that bears no resemblance to what we are discussing? If you look hard enough you'll find a post from me saying "Conspiracy thread thataway" because I know I've typed it more than once in here. It really depends on what the discussion was about at the time. Y'know...context.

Look I know you got caught out badly there and are smarting a bit from it but you gotta admit it was funny.

Anyway here's another time you dismissed someone as a conspiracy nut. In this instance they mentioned that lockdowns might go on until we find a vaccine and you know, they weren't far off the mark at all. Also mentioned about the lab leak theory - which is now an accepted explanation and is being actively investigated by WHO among others. You decided they should go to the conspiracy forum though.

Absolutely but someone asked for the link between a certain member of NPHET and the PCR gravy train. NVRL were the go to people to lead this as experts in the field. I'm not suggesting any impropriety at all. But someone like Nolan would always have a preference for PCR as that's what he is used to dealing with.

Are they allowing immunity through prior infection as proof of worthiness now?

I doubt that will happen en masse. Somebody somewhere will get the hump and report them, rightly or wrongly. Sports club I'm a member of (in the back ar$e of nowhere relatively speaking) has already been inspected/visited.

I take it someone was quoting me at some point. To clarify,I don’t know if anything inappropriate is going on regarding it, but I’d be of the opinion that CDG’s lab got it because of his influence with the HSE and I’d be very surprised if there was any real tender or oversight in awarding it. I’m not saying there wasn’t, just that I’d be surprised if there was!

Government reps/civil servants have form in looking after their own and the last 18 months has shown nothing to suggest a change in that!

we have a simple rule of thumb in my firm (Finance), “if it could be perceived as a conflict, then it’s to be treated as one”. Walks like a duck, quacks like a duck etc…! And that’s my view on the matter!

I'd suggest (without knowing, in fairness) that there weren't too many testing facilities in Ireland in early 2020. Who cares if it wasn't put out to tender ? A global pandemic when speed is key is no time to be ticking boxes IMHO. Countries were allegedly stealing other countries PPE from airplanes on the tarmac when this kicked off, rules went out the window. We did what had to be done at the time.

I was originally pointing out that a member of NPHET has close links with a lab used for PCR testing and awarded a HSE in response to something about PCR being the only pony in town and the lack of desire to use antigen!

I actually agree with what you said about how he may have gotten it. Personally I don’t care enough to give a sh*t about the way it may have been awarded and if it was awarded in a “jobs for the boys” type manner then it’s one of the lessor instances of that we’ve seen on this island.

It doesn’t change the fact tho, rightly or wrongly, that a member of the governments sole advisory team who are staunchly against anything other than PCR testing have a high ranking member who's own lab was awarded a government contract for PCR testing! Make of that what you will! Quack quack!

There's no government contract with the NVRL. It's a HSE funded lab run by UCD. It's essentially an arm of the HSE.

It's been in use for years and wouldn't have needed any contract as it already does a range of tests for the HSE, they'd have been the only ones able to carry out tests initially.

Enfer would have required a contract with the HSE

Makes sense to have the person running the lab on NPHET, they're able to report on what's coming through their lab

And I would agree with you.

Not only are RTE a disgrace I dont recall any debate on other irish media challenging nphet -they have frightened the sh1t out of people with this nonsence