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

Oh, I listened to the experts. I followed all the rules for the first year or so...and then it was a sliding scale. The event in the north was outdoors, I had 'recovered' (still no taste and limited smell) so didn't require the vaccine or a mask. I'm still wearing a mask in indoor settings where it's required. I continue to listen to the experts.

Makes a lot more sense when you realise the government and media are one entity.

That's indoctrination right there. Hypnosis by repetition.

Covid has animal reservoirs in a huge number of different species, and so will never go away.

Spanish and Russian flu are just strains of flu - either they were outcompeted by similar influenza strains or they mutated into something else. They were not eradicated through vaccination or other NPIs

Last time I mentioned it in here, I unleashed a witch-hunt by the usual suspects. I was told that it was immoral and vile to use the tragedy of several young people death to support my argument: obviously the other way around doesn't work.

No, it's not the Dail, it's an Oireachtas committee. Each person who speaks in front of an Oireachtas committee prepares their remarks in advance and provides them to the committee before reading them out in person. The media often get a hold of these, maybe they're public by default as soon as they're sent to the committee.

This sounds like a ridiculous set up, but the idea is that if the committee are sent the statement in advance of the meeting, then they can prepare meaningful questions to ask. Otherwise the committee needs to think up questions on the fly.

There's also a procedural element to it, that the person reading their statement is reading it "officially" into the record in the presence of the committee.

So, for you it is all just a conspiracy between governments and media, orchestrated by some person or persons unknown for some unspecified reason. This virus is basically harmless, but the vaccines to combat it are killing large numbers of people which is going unreported (due to this worldwide government and media conspiracy I can only presume), yet somehow having somehow access to all this information you still choose to get vaccinated.

Very strange.

The studies account for this - the study people who are naively vaccinated (no prior exposure to the virus, no antibodies) and people who had a previous infection.

It's examined over different timeframes also, to give confidence estimates as to which variant they were exposed to - there's pre-delta and post-delta data. Most of the initial exposures (for natural immunity participants) are well beyond 90days, so there is no confusion as to whether they were still infected or something like that.

Possibly/probably.

No.

Unconfirmed infections could be easily as likely to apply in the vaccinated cohort also.

This data is more recent, study was published last month or something so no it doesnt drive the guidance around getting the vaccine.