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

Brain drain? The lad who's a former "cable technician" with Eircom? Basically a hatchet man insider brought in to gut the health service. Good riddance.

Yes, nobody wants a job that pays €460K alright.

From his Wiki:

"From 2011 to 2014, Reid joined the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform as the chief operating officer. In this role, he had a leading role in the development, implementation and oversight of the government's reform programme across the civil and public service. His big project was to secure a saving of €1 billion in the second round of public service pay cuts, leading to the Haddington Road Agreement, a difficult proposition as ASTI rejected its findings."

As I said, he was brought in for one reason and one reason only, cuts to the health service. His latest decree before announcing his retirement was to go against the decision of the health minister and downgrade the emergency department in Navan hospital.

He has been a complete and utter failure in his role. Sláintecare is already dead on arrival. He was like a rabbit caught in headlights with the pandemic. Utterly unqualified for the job, no place running the 6th best funded health service in the world.

I think the media coverage peaked about a week or 10 days ago, when we got the initial "surge" - if you could even call it that. All seems to be gone fairly quiet now again, mercifully.

There are no legal consequences but surely you have a moral obligation to avoid, as far as possible, passing what can be a nasty disease onto others.

This 100%, cover up the fact they havent augmented hospitals

I wonder if it’s based on this blatant misinformation going around. It affected the lungs moreso on hamsters and mice only.

You don't seem to understand the concept of 'permanent' so maybe the conspiracy theory forum is the right place for this deliberate disingenuousness.

The proposed mask mandate is nothing more than political grandstanding at this stage, to appease the likes of the INMO, HSE, etc. These people seem to think that the mask is some sort of panacea, when the statistics have shown us that case numbers will rise and fall regardless of masks.

Look at last winter for example, when case numbers, hospital numbers and icu numbers were orders of magnitude greater than they are now - we had no mandate then and, guess what, cases fell anyway and we moved on with our lives. Why isn't this fact put to the likes of Donnelly and Donohoe (why is he even commenting on this issue anyway) instead of the media simply cheering them on.

Ireland 'in middle' of another wave of Covid-19 (rte.ie)

Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly has asked NIAC to examine if a fourth vaccine should be administered to people aged under 65 years later this year.

The minister said the National Immunisation Advisory Committee has so far not signalled its views either way on this question.

He pointed out that there is not yet a common approach internationally to this issue. However, the minister said he feels it is the right time to examine the issue given that Government is now drawing up plans for autumn.

Shin