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

What doesn't hold water is needing to wait another full month before restrictions are fully lifted. If that is indeed what happens.

They could have been lifted months ago, everybody knows they could be lifted today, but no, we need to wait another full month.

That doesn't hold water, and hasn't for a while now.

We are only conservative when it comes to Covid

Dan O'Brien was on the radio earlier

He's still baffled at the way the government are spending money like its irrelevant

Par for the course for the NPHET government.

Throw on another few months lockdown, sure what odds.

Throw on another few billion of debt, sure what odds.

Consequences? Sure what odds. Not like anything would ever be done about it.

Dan is an expert in his field. To which he has regularly expressed concern at Ireland's lack of caution when it comes to money during this pandemic

We can't fund the health service on rounds of applause moving forward

We have an incredibly expensive health service, the more we spend today to keep the lights on, the more we need to cut spending in the future

The health service wont be immune to those spending cuts

An economist was the right profession to handle this pandemic.

All it needed was to look around Europe and follow whatever most European countries did regarding restrictions and testing. Covid wasn't unique to Ireland

Instead Ireland closed construction and forbid antigen testing.

That was unique

We had a conservative response because we are a conservative country.

https://twitter.com/aginnt/status/1442147665655988227

Are there any aussies around here posting? Would love to get a personal insight into what it's like over there, it seems surreal really. Do most Australian people actually condone and support what's goign on? I have to say if Ireland was still enforcing such behaviour I would feel very left behind the rest of the world, hard to believe any country is still reacting to COVID like this in 2021. This is 2020 hysteria stuff , the police force should be ashamed of themselves going along with such nonsense, what an insane waste of resources.

Guy being arrested is wearing a red hat. I'm assuming it says some variant of MAGA on it.

That instantly tells me he's probably a fvcking moron, so I'm going to need to see something that explains why he shouldn't have been arrested.

Yeah, you can spin it that way if you want. Short, context-less video of an arrest of a guy wearing a red hat, tweeted by a conservative Trump-supporting, anti-reality Twitter account.

But yeah, we should definitely assume that it's an unlawful arrest. "Innocent until proven guilty" can spin both ways. The cop deserves the benefit of the doubt too that he was carrying out an arrest in good faith.

I havent seen any mention of this here, apologies if a repost - the guy who was convinced to leave hospital by a conspiracy theorist has died.

RIP to that poor man, Id imagine he was very much confused who's advice to follow when that whole debacle went down.

Yes some are , but most are too wrecked to be contemplating double jobbing after their busy shifts . Not to mention that many non nursing staff have been trained to do swabbing and vaccination under supervision ,as nurses are unless retired too busy in their day jobs .

You, however, as usual generalise and exaggerate to suit your narrative .

And throw in one or two untruths to embellish and garner as much 'thanks 'from equally discerning posters.

There is no plans to vaccinate under 12 s here , for example .

That would be a lie .

There are some on here who realise that it's insane to suggest that Covid is a complete scam, so instead they've moved to claiming that some people are deliberately keeping Covid measures going in order to line their own pockets.

They probably think that swab numbers are being manipulated to stay high, and that they're going around deliberately spreading the infection in hospitals too.

It's no less of a ridiculous position.

You know a lot of nurses dont you 😅

1,049 new cases, 310 patients in hospital, 66 in ICU. Noticeable drop in cases but just one day!

RTE showing a documentary tonight on “ cocooning “ . They are like a dog with a bone they just cannot let it go . They thrive on negativity