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

Why would you actively promote ignoring a disease? The Danes have largely downgraded it, the UK too and we are not far off. The NPHET/HSE position is that we begin to do the same and our last real measure of disease here is the hospitals.

I see that the DFA report was out last night. Clear acknowledgement it was a big mistake - in the greater scheme of things it was not nearly as big a mistake as others made during that time. Sinn Fein want another report - do they want an independent report to say it was a massive mistake? Heads to roll?

The protest about vaccine mandates on principle is a small part of the protest. The vast majority of those in attendance are anti-vax.

How can you possibly known that? Is it not just as easy to claim the opposite? Is this a fact based on data or your opinion expressed as though it’s a fact?

It is disappointing that many countries can't look beyond their own borders at a stage when a drive to get numbers up worldwide would benefit us all.

Last update here https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/covid-variants-area?country=~IRL

was 10 Jan 2022, when 7.2% of sequences cases in Ireland were Delta.

The trucker protests began as opposition to the vaccine mandate in Ottawa which affects a minority of truckers but is opposed by many more. Truckers control the food supply. Does any trucker want to cede control of supply lines to the awful Trudeau who has now fled into hiding like some Roman patrician during the sack of Rome? He has created this instability himself with his unbalanced words and actions. Canada, France and Australia have made it difficult for soft-sellers to pass off their actions as banal matters of 'medical necessity'. Respect the human person and their choice of what medicines they will take.

Where does the 100k a week delivery figure come from? And the 500k about to expire?

If it's moderna, we couldn't actually donate them as they need to be donated from source (the supplier, moderna needs to ship from the factory to the place it's being donated to and look after the cold chain) Up until late last year they were not allowing orders to be donated so it was not easy to donate moderna to covax.

Maybe so, but all the more odd to spend, probably a considerable amount of, money on a new feature.

It's fairly obvious tbh, not just looking at the new reports; even going into the cesspit of sites and people that support the protest.

Outside of a few hundred truckers driving in convoy, they've been joined/hijacked by all of the lunatic groups bulking out those walking on foot. There are reports of groups carrying Nazi flags pissing on war monuments,

https://twitter.com/texxto/status/1487478364919185418?s=20&t=Pk7nHG1WV1nNVgDALtGB2A

It's like when you have a legitimate protest against issues like housing in Dublin and then PBP and Sinn Féin turn up with their banners, and before you know it, it's a left-wing rally rather than a coheret protest.

That's what happened to this. Hijacked by scumbags, message lost.

It's quite telling the calibre of human that these things attract. Too much time on their hands and not enough brain cells in their heads.

The FTs guys stats are amazing

Well worth a follow on Twitter

So as of Jan 2022 Omicron is only twice as deadly as the seasonal flu in the over 60s & the above.

Funnily enough it would appear that flu is now more fatal in the under 40s.

Blow it up ref, it's over

Yes, there are reports of disgusting behaviour. There are clearly scumbags involved. That does not mean the majority of people taking place in the protest are in any way related to that behaviour. You made a claim that the vast majority in attendance are anti-vax but have now moved your claim to the protest having lost its message/legitimacy because it's been "hijacked by scumbags", which is a completely different argument

Firstly, you have no way of knowing "the vast majority" are anti-vax. This is you presenting your worldview as fact. For example, I am 100% in support of vaccines and 100% against locking people out of society with vaccine passports, etc. I would happily protest against what I argue are unacceptable and coercive measures while still arguing with anyone around me that they should take the vaccines to protect themselves.

Secondly, the press is hardly going to report something like: "99.9% of everyone at the protests today peacefully demanded the government end what they see as discriminatory legislation". It's not sexy, there's no drama, etc. The news always reports on the crazy people, the hateful people, or the stupid people.

So yes, in any large group of people there are usually a few absolute bastards. That does not mean the "overwhelming majority" are. It also doesn't mean the fringe defines the majority.