Covid 19 Part XXXV-956,720 ROI (5,952 deaths) 452,946 NI (3,002 deaths) (08/01) Read OP

Listening to Brendan O'Connor now announcing the papers reporting the lifting of restrictions.

Head of the vaccination programme on talking about wrapping it up, hitting 90% & picking up any stragglers.

Dare we dream it's over

With a majority of restrictions looking likely to be fully phased out before winter, we’ve the ISAG mouth piece as of late giving lectures daily on Twitter. I actually feel sorry for her, I know her field is architecture and specialist in air filtration but she’s been totally brainwashed, by ISAG!

Even the title of Oxford's press release on this paper purposely misinterprets the findings regarding Oxford vaccine (1 guess as to why they do this)

Covid-19, not vaccination, presents biggest blood clot risks | University of Oxford

The bad science, dumb media, and vested interests in COVID-19 research are getting so tiresome. Why isn't RTE instead reporting that the risk of heart attack or stroke is higher for 70+ year olds following vaccination with the Oxford vaccine, compared to getting COVID-19, instead of copy pasting Oxford's press release saying the vaccine is safer than COVID-19 in this regard? Tiresome.

I wouldn’t bet on any of that. Looking at other countries we could be heading for something bad if we don’t start doing widespread boosters. As ever though, we will be reactive knowing that we can just do another lockdown.

We don’t know yet who will need the boosters, which is why we must start getting that going ASAP. We also don’t know if the emergency is over. This is the first Covid winter with vaccines so there are many unknowns. Fair enough next year we will be in a far better place information wise.

That is a purely political announcement tbh. If it's a real disbandment, is far too soon, especially when we are in the midst of a wave that hasn't yet peaked.

However it isn't one. The functions that Nphet performed are just going to be absorbed into the permanent structures in the department of health.

In either case, I don't really see the actual public health value in changing structures this late in the day. If nphet are needed less, just have them meet less. But this is the politics of "moving on" I guess.

Did the whole public demonstrate "trustworthiness" at any point? In a pandemic, it only takes a few to undermine the good work of the many.

You only have to look through the threads on this forum to see that from the very start, there was a significant minority determined to do their own thing no matter what.

What's an architect doing pontificating about epidemiology?

Embarrassing

Not doing it on a national broadcaster

I take it you're related to her? 😂

I can see that you're triggered so we'd better leave it at that.

Maybe it is just fake news

Any time I've heard her on radio or TV she's been talking about ventilation and air quality. If she goes outside of the area of her expertise it's up to the interviewer to challenge her.

She had as much right to post on twitter though as you do though. You can even challenge her on it if you want.

I heard that too, ridiculous nonsense, the way some people were going on you'd swear half the team would never play again.

Really? Tell me where does Orla and others get their funding from? Many others I'm sure would appreciate this funding and unprecedented media access - written pieces in national newspapers, RTE and Virgin Media prime time slots, local radio station appearances, etc. It's amazing coverage to be fair for an architect. I wonder should we get Dermot Bannon to start writing and tweeting more posts also re Covid? He's as qualified as Orla after all.

Did Tómas Ryan ever produce any evidence to prove any of his wild and unsubstantiated claims - such as pregnant mothers should watch out as Covid could cause autism. This is an as outlandish a claim as Dr Andrew Wakefield had, which still doesn't have any evidence to back it up. Remember Dr Ryan (Neuroscientist) stated all Covid cases should be treated like a murder - he must be snowed under trying to trace the data from appox 10 - 13k cases per week in Ireland trying to solve these fictional 'murder' cases. Did he visit the Tyrone Team camp? I'm sure they were dying to listen to what he had to say, and all of his unsubstantiated scaremongering too.

Or perhaps he emigrated to Australia / New Zealand to live in lockdown for months on end, as their Zero Covid strategy which he kept promoting has failed miserably - their populations are not taking the vaccines and they remain hugely vulnerable to any cases at all.