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

You've missed the point.

Your humor is ironic. Its inadvertantly highlighting your lack of knowledge on GDP in Ireland.

It's not a "myth", the term is leprechaun economics in those other places "without large GDP inflows".🤣

Here's a fairly basic explanation in an article

Bottom line is we are now €240,000,000,000 in debt, and we unnecessarily spent 2 years in severe lockdowns without any evidence they work.

Our access to credit in future is far from assured, our infrastructure is poor & we have already cancelled infrastructure upgrades due to funding issues.

Were about to leave the insulation of restrictions, to finally have an autopsy on our economy

Of course it remains an issue, but I've already explained why that is mitigated as a risk now.

In any case, people are not being asked to upload negative tests, but positive ones. False positive antigen tests are much rarer

The same type of thing has happened for 2 years.

In this case posters were backing NPHET all the way about antigen not being accurate etc etc

Despite every other county in Europe using antigen since the start of the pandemic of course

Now, NPHET have done a complete 360 on antigen testing, and the same posters are just rowing in behind NPHET like they never were completely against antigen previously!!

Bonkers

Its a bit like the in hospital with/because of argument.

Seemingly as of this week, its now official that a significant number of patients are in hospital for other reasons, however it was a conspiracy theory for almost 2 years, despite the numbers never adding up

They are meaningless because they literally serve no purpose whatsoever. And anyone uploading these test results is just making it harder to get out from under these restrictions.

We don't need to give them more data though. It only prolongs the inevitable slow removal of restrictions. Numbers outside of ICU are completely meaningless at this stage. Hospital admissions isn't even a useful metric anymore with so many people not being primarily treated for Covid after testing positive in there. And general case numbers are a nonsense now. We need to stop with the mass testing and reporting of these numbers. It ain't healthy for society to continually do this.

You know what's worse than more data? Bad data.

That's all we are getting from case numbers now.

Scraping the bottom of the barrel for something to complain about there..

I don’t need to design a referendum question, the referendum shouldn’t come until there’s a general election. I don’t think the current Government have a mandate for their policies beyond what they termed was the ‘public health emergency’.

There is no mandate for the current Certs domestically based on such a mild strain as Omicron that nearly all of the population have or will have caught shortly. Some may not have been able to get pcrs or recovery certs or boosted as they caught the virus recently. NPHET’s solution to this is ‘get the booster in 3 months’ - where is the science for that. They’ve recovered from the virus the booster (for the original strain) doesn’t give full protection from. In many cases the virus is far milder than the effects many had from the booster.

The public health emergency is all but over for now. People are buying themselves a few months of societal participation with a booster or recovery cert, that is a very big change to how the country is run. I would follow the election & any party supporting Covid Certs for societal participation would not get my vote, there is no science behind them. If that means I vote for different parties than usual, that’s what I’ll do.

They haven't been updating the lea data, it also says confirmed cases in the app, i presume that they need to reword that if including antigen results.

So true. Running out of things to moan about.

Let’s be honest publishing daily case numbers is nothing but covid theatre at this stage.

Serves no purpose whatsoever

Interesting story in the business post! Covid to become like the common cold

And there it is. 965 in hospital, compared to 984 last Sunday. Extraordinary to think that with probably more than 1 million (maybe even 2 million) infections in this wave, we peaked with barely over 1000 in hospital, one third of whom did not require treatment for Covid. If we went completely back to normal tomorrow, with zero restrictions, we'd still be grand. With the protection of vaccines, Omicron just isn't a threat.