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

You’ll have to dictionary definition of the fallacy of strawman. I reject your inference that I committed a strawman. Why ? My reply was supporting stats of other viruses. It was related to op’s plea for stats. What better way to produce stats other than other past viruses. None

There’s no “reheating” anything from me. The authorities downright lied regarding direct covid deaths. They skewed figures to support their narrative / agenda along with scare at bed time stories from their RTE agents like Clare Byrne et al . We will never know the truth about the real numbers who contributed to actual covid patients. Our hospitals have always been busy in the winter.

A hospital numbers game you say ?

We were never close to max capacity. Of course the media were quick to scramble their hit pieces about the likes of a tiny Italian town with people of an average age of 85 and attempting to convince us all of a fate of full hospitals and dying 25 year olds on ventilators. Utter propaganda of the highest order.

I should go to wuhan and see the busy hospitals in early covid ? Would that be the same region that supplied the world with those videos of people collapsing on the street reportedly dead of covid ?

Yeah that country has an abundance of integrity, I’ll book my flight now ….

Yes, because the way to establish that something is "objectively" "insanely mild" is with the comparisons you made.

So apparently, if it's not the Black Death or Spanish Flu it is "insanely mild".

Yep, that's a strawman and you well know what you were doing.

Your figures are garbage because they leave out the real numbers. How many people was it going to send to hospital. Any discussion of covid that doesn't look at how contagious it is nonsense.

Yes, China's isn't known for its integrity. They would have covered this up if they could. They couldn't. Their hospitals got that bad. You can't refute that real event so you resort to deflection and smokescreen with nonsense about random videos on the internet. Whatever that means.

Same thing would have happened here if we hadn't reacted. England tried to avoid it and the numbers in hospital couldn't be ignored, even by Boris.

The rest of your post about "downright lies" and propaganda is bordering on conspiracy theory ranting.

It's pretty clear you have no argument when you have to resort to such obvious tactics.

Utter nonsense.

Comparing covid as "insanely mild" in comparison with Spanish flu & Bubonic plague is a textbook blatant strawman. It's laughable you trying to back out of it.

You are alleging that the scenes from Wuhan hospitals, the testimony of doctors there was made up and fabricated and cannot be trusted. Because ... apparently some random videos on the internet of unknown origin of people falling down. And that discredits the information about what was happening in Wuhan an its hospitals.

This is conspiracy theory stuff.

More crazy claims of strawman and conspiracy theories that I’m guilty of.

China lost their integrity with those blatantly fake videos. ANYTHING they say then on is fake. Fool me once Shame on etc etc

Anyway. I’m off to the pub.

So it’s insanely mild for the elderly around the world because your elderly relatives were grand after 3 days?

My mother must be dossing in bed then because we were close to calling an ambulance.

I will pull her out of bed now to make me a sandwich because dalyboy thinks she’s overreacting.

Theres also 400 people in hospital for “COVID” who must be taking the piss with just the sniffles.

Here me on a Saturday evening on my couch with COVID when I should be down the packed pub.

I really am a smuck for isolating.

Yes that's exactly what it means and it is utterly dishonest to suggest otherwise. Weasel words and semantic games - a blatant tactic. This is just a poor attempt at a rehash of the thoroughly discredited #justtheflubro garbage from earlier in this thread.

A mild illness doesn't kill people. A mild illness doesn't put people into ICU.

It is mild for many people. That does not make it a mild illness as a whole. To say it is an "insanely mild illness" is well, there's a word in there that describes that statement alright.

I’m not taking it personally.

COVID is mild for some, moderate for others, severe for others and deadly others.

that’s it.

This **** suppresses the immune system and people are calling it mild?

First we needed to learn maths now we need to learn about aeroplane crashes.

Anything but what the medical experts say!

Wait, is it "insanely mild" or just doesn't have a "severe risk of death"?

What weasel word phrasing would you like to settle on?

Even if you want to go down that route, you still don't have a leg to stand on. Sometimes planes crash. But some planes crash more often than others. They are not safe planes - I'm talking about Comets and Boeing 737 Maxs.

What you keep trying to run away from is that covid is a highly infectious disease. The number of people it sends to hospital is function of its severity and how many people it infects. And covid is both more severe and more infectious than flu, cold etc. Covid poses a severe risk to public health systems. It poses a severe risk to the vulnerable people in our society, who number in the hundreds of thousands. This is based on not just the deaths, but the risk of hospitalisation and need for ICU.

This line of argument was garbage as #JustTheFluBro and it's even worse second time around.

So you fell for that crap and misinformation on twitter lol good man. We better lockdown quick!

If you think Covid has been quite severe, how about responding to the posters who think it is an "insanely mild illness".

And they aren't talking about just "these days", they are talking about coronavirus as a whole - not just Omicron versus a highly vaccinated \ exposed population.

Or did you miss that bit?

The depletion of t cells and exhaustion is complete misinformation. Believe what ever BS you want.