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

Monkeypox, similar to smallpox have been found in the UK. Just what we need. They done a rubbish job at any containment with covid, and now there is a virus similar to smallpox. And this is nothing to laugh about either.

I am sorry Goldengirl, I genuinely like your posts but not so much this one. These people have done untold damage in this country! The Covid response in this country was so cultish, so myopic and one sided cheer led by this clowns. One of them wanted to move Christmas to June, put granddad by the window wide open, don`t pass the gravy boat and other such silly nonsense. That clown Kenny wanted to mask 2 year olds!

This was among so much other nonsense he, Ryan and others came out, all unquestioned and worse still given continuous platforms to air such nonsense and no opportunity for opposing or challenging voices.

Now it is turning out that the basics of immunology i.e. airborne virus is coming to pass despite the abuse some got here for daring to suggest such a thing!

I am sorry but the likes of McConkey, Ryan, Byrne, Kenny and their ilk have the sh*t frightened out of a certain cohort of people in this country (I am witnessing this constantly and it angers me) and it is unforgiveable to me no matter what backtracking they do, it is unforgiveable! I hope we never allow such b*llshit and nonsense ever to be tolerated again but I am afraid we probably will.

Yes Covid was absolutely a problem that needed dealing with, and a nasty enough virus (just recovering from it now myself) but it did not warrant the cultish manner Ireland dealt with it i.e. the abuse and division because some were unvaccinated and again cheer led by these media clowns. I`m sorry but f*ck no and never again! I will have always despised and will always despise the religious like reaction and fanaticism to Covid in this country. The true cost we will not know for years.

This is going to be with us along time by the looks of it, thankfully we have vaccines, no doubt treatments will be much better over time but we cannot allow such a hysterical, myopic one sided response to something like this ever again unless it is something like Ebola or other such virus.

Not sure why this needs to be repeated.

McConkey did not claim there would be in excess of 200,000 deaths.

He only said what about 80- 120k deaths?

And what about the doom mongers and their outrageous predictions on cases and deaths, the affect that had on government policies and subsequently the impact on people's mental health, livelihoods and children's education? People are so focused on deaths with/from Covid, they've forgotten all other impacts from the last 2 years of Covid policies (not the disease itself).

"based on the data at the time"...there is the crux of the issue in a nutshell. Any academic, or scientist, worth their salt would never carry-out a calculation based on such dynamic data. And if they did, they wouldn't announce it so publicly. Defend him all you like but McConkey was, and still is, a charlatan in my opinion. If I recall correctly, he made similar outlandish statements when the original SARS (or maybe it was MERS) virus was in the public eye.

"demanded by the public" - don't include me in that generalisation as I certainly never wanted to hear his doom-mongering message, and I would confidently bet that I'm not the only one. In fact, I would go so far as to say, the vast majority of the public could have done without his overly zealous bombast, and certainly didn't "demand" it I'd imagine.

As for informing policy, isn't that the job of public health experts, and NPHET - which McConkey isn't/wasn't a member of. I agree there was a need for figures, calculations, and modelling, but I take issue with the over-the-top, wildly inaccurate, worst-case-scenario approach of McConkey and his relish in delivering that message in the public sphere. What, pray tell, say you.

A better attempt than your last response, I'll give you that. But, then again, you know what they say about sarcasm.

Some serious zero covid zealouts f***kwits on Twitter. Awful abuse some people get from these diseased maniacs: