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

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 853 ✭✭✭MilkyToast


    Utter idiocy, and still no criticism of the Great Barrington Declaration.

    If you are happy supporting shady right wing libertarian groups that are big on climate change denial

    I hate to break this to you, but people can actually go to the site, read the articles themselves, and see that they're not "big on climate change denial". Just a bit more nuanced than wanting to give extinction rebellion the return to the dark ages that their death cult lusts after. Not that their articles on climate change are related in any way to the GBD and their

    I'm also not going to feel any way about supporting anything based on the hyperventilating judgment of a left-wing extremist authoritarian on an internet forum. Sorry, not sorry.

    you believe their study into sweatshops was for the good of those slaving in them

    You have piss poor reading comprehension and a knack for signalling virtue without any consideration for the consequences of your desires. Close all the sweat shops and **** the poor brown people who'll be left to starve. Lockdown everything and **** the collateral missed cancer diagnoses, increase ischemic events, mental health problems, addictions and deaths.

    Bit of a pattern there.

    India with disastrous results from deaths due to their population believing it.

    India has 346 deaths per million population from covid, compared to Ireland's 1,186 deaths per million population.

    “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." ~C.S. Lewis



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,103 ✭✭✭✭Dempo1


    Well well, Surprise, Surprise, ASTI proposing a delayed, staggered reopening of schools , stating it would be an unacceptable risk without additional safety measures put in place .

    Is maith an scáthán súil charad.




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 853 ✭✭✭MilkyToast


    there is no rife stigmatisation in irish society surrounding covid, unless you are referring to conspiricy theorists and those who refuse to get vaccinated, who quite frankly deserve no sympathy as they have been trying to hold the country to ransom so deserve to be encouraged to get on the right track.

    LOL

    "There is no rife stigmatisation in Irish society... here is some rank stigmatisation to prove it!"

    You have to be a troll.

    “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." ~C.S. Lewis



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 997 ✭✭✭Stormyteacup


    Mmmhmm well transmission in the general population in Ireland was practically zero in April 2020 per Philip Nolan. Whether your guy was advocating for letting it rip or not - it’s still useful information as to what would the trajectory of the virus be with no mitigation measures. Science needs a baseline.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,445 ✭✭✭✭namloc1980


    Watching the news there and they had a segment on hospitals being very busy etc. Exact same thing we've seen in the news every winter for as long as I can remember.

    - people on trolleys,

    - elective surgery cancelled,

    - surge capacity,

    - winter flu season etc.

    We've seen this every year. But now it's acceptable government policy to close and restrict elements of our economy, we have teacher unions screaming for delay in school opening etc.

    This from 2018 for example.




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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,103 ✭✭✭✭Dempo1


    I can confirm I was on a Trolley for 3 days back in early November after an emergency admission and a further 6 days in a ward. The care I received, excellent but the Trolley situation nothing new .

    Is maith an scáthán súil charad.




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,409 ✭✭✭✭astrofool


    Unfortunately the India data isn't that trustworthy and is believed to undercount deaths and cases significantly (which means it can't really be used to prove things either way).

    Even ourselves, data from the last 2 weeks will be unreliable due to the high positivity rate and lack of testing capacity.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,532 ✭✭✭Gusser09




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    No lad I'm trying to get another week off work to be honest.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,029 ✭✭✭SusieBlue


    The same lad was insisting that the economy was running as normal and that we weren’t heavily restricted when we were in full level 5 lockdown with the 2km travel limits.

    I believe 1.2 million people were claiming the PUP at the time. But nope, apparently everything was mostly normal and people needed to cop on and get over it.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,293 ✭✭✭CalamariFritti


    Let us look at our own data there for a moment.

    Due you think that the numbers we publish every day for almost 2 years are in any way accurate?

    Our testing is totally random - but not in a statistically good way.

    You have a bucket with people coming from GP referrals.

    You have a bucket with people coming random from the street into test centre.

    Another bucket has people looking to confirm their positive antigen test.

    Another bucket of people who get periodically tested at work/uni/school.

    And so on.

    So every day you have a mixture of biased and unbiased data. On top of that throw in the constant up- and downscaling of testing. For a highly transmissive virus with an unknown but very high number of asymptomatic cases.

    At no time did we know the true incidence. Just some number we call incidence but its really nothing resembling the meaning of the word. At no time did we know how many people had it on any given day. At no time did we know the percentage of people getting sick. At no time did we know the percentage of people dying. Hell 2 years into this and we still dont know how many are asymptomatic even. We know **** all. After 2 years.

    Never mind 'knowing' what works or not in terms of restrictions.

    The only conclusion that makes sense is we dont/didnt want to know. Cos the only other explanation would be that we are amateurish/stupid beyond belief.

    And you're telling me here the last 2 weeks may be unreliable? 😀



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,029 ✭✭✭SusieBlue


    If we don’t ride this out and open the schools as normal, it’ll open the floodgates. Based on previous patterns, when the schools close, so does everything else shortly after.

    If we can’t make it through this wave with this many vaccinated and boostered, without closing the schools AGAIN, we’re f*cked.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,409 ✭✭✭✭astrofool


    It would be reliable enough until the testing capacity ran out (remember that the modelling has an estimate for actual cases based on positivity rate not the daily reported data), India data would be far more unreliable thus harder to make a conclusion with, whereas comparing European countries is more likely to give an accurate comparison. It will be interesting to see what gets marked as excess deaths for India in 2021 and how they break that out month on month, which may give a truer picture (I'm unfamiliar with how accurate this would be seen as normally).



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,532 ✭✭✭Gusser09


    This. Schools dont open its as good as lockdown. Also if they dont this thing will carry on for another 6 months rather than 2 months.

    I doubt the government will fold though. Hopefully Norma Foley stands firm.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,293 ✭✭✭CalamariFritti


    Breaking it out monthly would do everything BUT give a more accurate picture. These monthly and in some cases weekly 'excess mortalities' are just attempts at bending the data to suit one's views.

    Its like me saying my mortgage is €1200 a day. Which is true on the first Monday every month.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,745 ✭✭✭✭lawred2


    100%

    We've never actually exited those two weeks that we were told would flatten the curve..

    It's 2022 now. Regressing again on schools means that there's no real ambition to get out of this.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,409 ✭✭✭✭astrofool


    It doesn't do anything except give the tools to map it for proper analysis, by year would be dumb as it doesn't take into account when lockdowns and restrictions are enforced and then lifted (e.g. lockdown in Ireland caused lower than average deaths in 2020, but monthly analysis shows peaks in excess deaths for March-May when the pandemic started and then Jan-Feb of 2021 when we last tried to reduce restrictions in Wintertime).



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,097 ✭✭✭✭Zebra3


    Are the teachers looking to make up the school time later in the term?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,745 ✭✭✭✭lawred2




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 167 ✭✭noserider


    They will forgo their mid term

    break or 2 weeks at Easter….😂😂



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,103 ✭✭✭✭Dempo1


    Is maith an scáthán súil charad.




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,103 ✭✭✭✭Dempo1


    Intriguing article about minutes of a private meeting where CMO confirms communicating the message on moving to antigen testing would be difficult for NPHET having been against Antigen Testing from day one.


    Is maith an scáthán súil charad.




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,103 ✭✭✭✭Dempo1


    There's some Irony in what appears to be extraordinary absenteeism caused by self isolating requirements.

    If government restrictions didn't curtail you, Self isolating rules will 🙄

    Is maith an scáthán súil charad.




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,783 ✭✭✭✭Red Silurian


    They need to get over themselves, they're human and they get things wrong!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,097 ✭✭✭✭Zebra3


    But they don’t think of themselves as human. Demigods.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,783 ✭✭✭✭Red Silurian


    And yet they've already been proven wrong many times, strange that



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,669 ✭✭✭Klonker


    More worried about their image than the health of the nation.


    Its also because of NPHET that the government are only talking about rolling out hepa filters in schools now, NPHET said they weren't needed. Tony probably told them washing their hands would be more effective.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,783 ✭✭✭✭Red Silurian


    For any business looking to fight COVID rules in the future simply quote this case where the fine was €100 for selling non-essential items during a lv5 lockdown



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,579 ✭✭✭✭charlie14


    I am far from being a hyperventilating left wing extremist authoritarian, but from your jumping through hoops on the GBD financed and promoted by the American Institute for Economic Research, a group from their "research" on sweatshops and their climate change denial where they state "There is no convincing scientific proof that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other hothouse gases is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth`s atmosphere and disruption of the Earth`s climate."I believe safe to describe AIER are a right wing libertarian well financed group affiliated to similar world wide. A description that would also seem to fit your views from your attempts at defending them.

    Where have you not seen my criticism of the GBD. ?

    I have shown where the financier and promotor`s "Senior Fellow" has published under their name such "scientific" facts that the spread of Covid declines to nearly zero after 70 days no matter where in the world it occurs, and declared that John Ioannidis immunity claims on immunity through infection had been confirmed as correct. Anybody capable of simple multiplication can see why that one has been totally debunked. I have also pointed out that the GBD was nothing other than the BS that herd immunity was achievable via infection where any that chased it failed to achieve it, not for the least of reasons being their own seroprevalence studies showed it was unachievable, and anywhere that believed they had achieved, it such as Amazonas (who actually based their belief on a seroprevalence report) and India were just kidding themselves.

    Just in case you haven`t worked it out from what I have said, the GBD is a pot of piss financed and promoted by a very dodgy outfit with deep pockets in pursuit of their own agenda rather than anything for the benefit of mankind in general.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 627 ✭✭✭DLink


    Has any mention been made yet of how many people have received the booster?

    Curious to know If it's anywhere near the original vaccination rate, and whether or not they have a certain percentage in mind that will allow them to lift restrictions (other than 100% that is).



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