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

Not really, considering they vilified pubs for two years while insisting schools were safe, despite schools being the main driver of at least one wave of Covid.

That said, says everything about the media in this country that none of them are asking what the justification is for maintaining such restrictions now in the supposedly safe schools, when everywhere else in society has opened up. Don't think there's a single actual journalist left in the country.

Don't want to be negative here, and I noted happily that they weren't going to announce cases in hospitals and ICU numbers over weekends anymore in the media.

However, on listening to the news yesterday RTE just said there were 3,872 cases yesterday and made no reference to the numbers that occurred on Saturday and Sunday!

Fortunately my update from Journal.ie sorted that out, it seems there were 26,000 new cases between PCR and DIY tests, Saturday, Sunday and Monday inclusive, so cases as bad as ever it seems to me!

WTF RTE don't publish Deaths on a Daily basis is a National Disgrace. Publishing once a week nullifies the effect and sweeps the issue under the carpet.

Even Boris's crew for all the things going on there and also N. Ireland give out proper stats on a daily basis including Deaths. Reporting like that is needed to frighten people who haven't taken the vaccine to get it. We are too softly softly here.

In fact it sounds to me like our Government are in denial and trying to tell everyone we are safe now whereas that cannot be the case! Unless the vaccine stats get near to 100% we will be back in the mire come the next awkward variant.

My wife was turned away from the driving test center this morning because she hadn't taken an antigen test in the last 24 hours. Shes fully boosted and not sick at all, which is why she hadn't. Apparently this came into effect on January 17th however it seems they didn't tell anyone that had already booked about this new requirement. Talk about a farce, going backwards.

Unfortunately she didnt cop why he was asking her that and told the truth, test over. In fairness they will reschedule for free because of this but the stress of waiting for the test etc isnt nice to have to go though all over again for nothing. Now i've got to go on more drives with her around the test route bored to tears! I dont know who is more upset about it :D

Why are they meaningless here but not in other jurisdictions? The UK benchmark is "any death that occurs within 28 days of a Covid diagnosis I think.

Anyway, if they can do it once a week , they can do it once a day-show respect to people and stop trying to fool the people.

“While this meta-analysis concludes that lockdowns have had little to no public health effects, they’ve imposed enormous economic & social costs where they have been adopted. In consequence, lockdown policies are ill-founded & should be rejected as a pandemic policy instrument.”

Johns Hopkins meta-analysis

Gosh, what a shock. What a just absolutely blindsiding shock.

Who could possibly have predicted it?

Here is the information you are looking for. Its a just a click away.. public health information is always available, its doesnt need to be on the news.

One look at the graph tells the panic/fear etc is no longer required. There are already terrible deaths reported on the news daily, we don't need Covid deaths called out too.. all that does is frighten the already vulnerable and vaccinate older people.. you can share the information to your friends on social media or to your unvaccinated/unboosted friends, but Ill make a fair guess, you wont be 'encouraging' anyone else to get the vaccine.

The only recent reference for a pandemic we had was 1918 and that's what they used back then so... Most countries also didn't have a fit for purpose pandemic plan and just copied others, like China. It looked like the right thing to do especially in the very early days when we had no idea what we were dealing with but not the months long impositions that became the standard approach.

Oh my god... 2021 called. It wants its bullsh*t back.

Unfortunately i think they are. Trust me they are out there, from my own experience dealing with the public.