When will life go back to normal

You know what's the worst thing about the Botswana variant?

The public and media, have bit the bait.

If we learned anything in recent times, NPHET and/ or the media will float scare nonsense, and it either sticks or doesn't stick depending on the public and media engagement with it.

Last year into this year NPHET were claiming children were at serious risk of developing some long term syndrome post Covid (it wasn't Kawasaki Disease but it sounded something like that). The public didn't bite and the rubbish wasn't mentioned again.

The Brazil, South African, Indian Delta II sub variant, Nepalese variant, the Colombian variant that had "already been found in 47 out of 50 US states", as late as last week the UK Delta sub variant- all of the above were meant to be the big one. The public ignored them, and the fearmongers at the top gave up promoting it.

Remember "Covid toes"? I barely do, because the public didn't bite.

I haven't heard NPHET mention Long Covid in months, but in the summer they used the apparent threat of it to young people to keep the pubs closed when we were hitting high vaccine numbers.

End of times scares have been a part of life in Ireland and Britain since at least the 60's, starting with the Cuban Missile Crisis, the effects of the hysteria on a small Irish community brilliantly explored as the main sub plot in the dark comedy The Butcher Boy.

Chernobyl would lead to Europe wide birth defects and an explosion in sterility.

There wouldn't be a family in Ireland untouched by AIDS.

BSE/ CJD would likely kill up to 500,000 British cizitens.

There is a 1991, yes, 1991, episode of Only Fools and Horses where Rodney goes through a green phase and is boring everyone to death with rants about the melting polar ice caps and imminent waterworld. 30 years ago. India, China, Africa have burned more fuel than can be counted since then yet we are still being told it's only around the corner.

Post 9/11 it was only a matter of time before the next big one. Al Quaeda had dirty bombs, nuclear warheads, germ and bio warfare capabilities. 300 US supplied stinger shoulder launchers were missing from Afghanistan and ready to be fired at the next UK airport flight bound for Benidorm. Anyone recall when tanks and missile intercept were deployed at Heathrow Airport around 2004?

20 years ago Saddam had a germ or nuke tipped rocket that could be fired and reach London at 40 minutes notice.

The SARS virus.

The Swine flu.

The shrunken headed babies of Zika, where did they go?

40,000 dead from the first winter of Covid.

I've just listed nine end of days scenarios from the last 40 years. Six of them date from the last 20 years (seven if you count how ridiciiously overkill climate change has went in the last 3 years)

You're being had. None of these things happened, and were ever going to happen.

Also worth remembering- when Tony Holohan was saying in September that we were on track, that he could see no reason that pubs and clubs wouldn't open on October 22nd without vax passes, he knew full well he was setting us all up for a big practical joke.

He knew the Israeli and UK data. He knew that late October was the sweet spot, the approximate point at which the first mass vaccine recipients from March and April, their vax coverage would start to fall off a cliff.

He knew all of this, but he still cast the bait telling us our lives would be back to relative normality, knowing full well the cases would increase and he would get an excuse to enforce vaxports and have pubs and clubs operating on a skeleton model.

Does anybody really believe that we had a few weeks of 900 to 1100 daily cases, then overnight one week before Oct 22nd we jumped to 2000 and stayed locked around that figure for another few weeks?

Do people actually believe no books were cooked?

For comparison, the UK has stayed locked around the 35 to 50k number for months now. The thought of them jumping from 40 to 80,000 overnight is unthinkable, yet we, a country similar culturally did? Gerrup the yard.

There is no way he didn't know. The vax protection seems to fall away almost overnight. The J and J jab seems to be the biggest medical fraud ever sold- takes two weeks to kick in and fades completely after 12 weeks!

It seems mad to think now, I distinctly recall telling herself's nephew (would have been 14 at the time) "I guarantee you, if I live until I'm 80 there will never be another world wide, where were you event as big as 9/11 was". How wrong I was. I just never imagined an event that would impact the world bigger than 9/11 could ever happen again.

I distinctly recall, I had resolutely switched the channel and refused to read the articles when Covid would come up in Jan and Feb 2020, for the very reason of having lived through the hyped nonsense I referred to in the previous post.

The genuine first time I recall Covid was when I was down in Tullamore on a job, I pulled into a petrol station as Sam McConkey finished telling Matt Cooper we were looking at 40,000 dead.

"Man's off his rocker" I said.

And I was right. ICU deaths show that if Covid was allowed "let rip" we would have suffered at the very most circa 3000 to 4000 actual Covid deaths (as distinct to "died with Covid" deaths which are of people already weeks away from dying anyway).

Those 3000 to 4000 will be outran in the coming years by missed cancer treatments, lockdown suicides, strokes, cancers and heart attacks caused by the sheer malaise and stress of this life over the last 2 years)

Problem is so many lies have been told I simply do not believe late in the day statistics that come out claiming X Y and Z.

I know nothing of Italy. What I do know is that only just over 500 people died in ICU units in Ireland. That all of the other 5000 "Covid deaths" would currently be dead regardless of whether Covid ever existed.

The 1 million Brits prediction is from the mid 90s and referred to people who had long ago consumed the infected meat.

AIDS rampaged through Africa because it seeded there. It would simply never have spread at the firestorm rate it did there in a land it wasn't native to. Statistically your chance of contracting HIV through unprotected vaginal sex with an infected person is actually astoundingly low. Predictions of a family in Ireland untouched by it were simply hyperberbolic nonsense.

If only they'd wore masks and washed their hands. The magic solution.