Relaxation of Restrictions, Part XII *Read OP For Mod Warnings*

And that's No Shytt,Shylock...(could'nt resist that !)

Hoodwinked with a Kapital K !

In the midst of RTE's continuing outfall of Covid "coverage" focusing on the need for a daily increase in "cases" (guaranteed due to every GP directing ingrown toenail presenters to a Covid Test Centre),our National PUBLIC SERVICE broadcaster has abandoned objectivity and journalistic questioning in favour of raising a CMO and his crew to Deity status.

RTE were caught napping in South Africa before....http://tribune.ie/article/2009/apr/05/the-curious-case-of-pamela-izevbekhai/

Philip Boucher-Hayes is the RTÉ broadcaster who conducted the radio interview. Boucher-Hayes has sworn an affidavit supporting Izevbekhai's claims for her legal case. He said through a spokeswoman last week: "In 2005, I rang international directory enquiries and got a number for the hospital in which Dr Unokanjo works. I rang the hospital and was put through to the person whose interview was aired." A phone number for Isioma hospital in Lagos was not available from international directory enquiries when contacted on several occasions this week. The address on the fake document gives a fake address and phone number for the hospital. The hospital's actual address is 11 James Robertson Street, Surulere, Lagos.

Even with their prior record of poor Journalistic standards at their highest level,I await RTE coverage of the "other" side of SA's Omicron wave....

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/africa/south-africa-reporting-a-low-rate-of-hospital-admissions-even-with-the-omicron-variant-1.4759122

As the Irish Times gamely attempted to peddle the "Oh but It will lay old Erin bare" line,even they could'nt downplay the rather basic week 3 statistics on SA's Hospitalizations....

Health officials presented evidence that the strain may be milder, and that infections may already be peaking in the country’s most populous province, Gauteng.

Damn & Blast sez the Government and NPHET PR Team,somebody needs to get those South Afrikaners on message...and SOON !

Of course,the narrative now appears to be the European Omicron will be different...vastly different,cos...well our viruses are different...ok ?

With many and varied Western Governments rushing to the bomb-shelters and sounding alarums throughout the continent,few appear to be wondering how so many disparate,and long-standing ambivalent Politicians have suddenly started lecturing from the same podium.

The Penny is already dropping,albeit slowly,but with little doubt,2022 is going to bring with it a reckoning,most likely when the employed middle-class contributors finally realize their pension pot's are now empty.... 😮

It's still a wait and see scenario and unless cases absolutely rocket up tomorrow schools will close as planned on Wednesday. The New Year return depends on what Omicron does. If it's fast and furious then schools should open normally.

Meanwhile, been out and about and Christmas shopping goes on apace , with masks half-mast and otherwise everywhere in shops. Good to see so many out getting on with their lives.

This. There is a hint of emotional blackmail about those articles. MMs loss, whilst indescribably painful, should not be impacting his decision making - yet he says here its influencing him to try to ensure that all covid deaths must be avoided at all costs.

Covid and cot death cannot be compared like this.

It's the HSE we are taking about here. They'd be lucky to have a windows95 computer.

Their intention is spread disinformation not get answers.

This is not new information. He gave a very similar interview back in June about parenthood, and their deaths.

People hold memories of their dead children for life. I have every sympathy for the man and accept that it has formed him as a person. That said it has nothing to do with whether he is a good Taoiseach nor is it an excuse for some of the indecision at times during this. As I've said more than once I think he's a worrywart, a conclusion I've managed to come to without fretting about any details in his personal life.

Some people say that God makes decisions for them which is just as hard to prove and as likely not to be true. I have known people who've tragically experienced this and their lives don't stop. They may retain the sadness and the memory for the lost child and it may inspire them on to other things but generally speaking it doesn’t have an ongoing overwhelming effect on their lives. We are a whole lot more complex as human beings than the tragedies we learn to live with.

Martin as a politician has always been a ditherer, that's just who he is. His decisions during this may have had some influence from his personal life but it's been mostly allowing NPHET recommendations and numbers to call the shots.

Nope!

1. Automation would run on a server not a computer.
2. I’d assume you’d know that there’s far too many variables on a month by month basis to fully automate something like payroll.

Posters here did not make the link between his children and his leadership in the pandemic. Michael Martin *himself* made that link.

He has publically stated it impacts the decisions he makes. Those decisions in turn impact 4-5 million people.

Posters are entitled to comment on statements public figures make and that includes speculating on the timing of those statements.

Of course it would. But Im not Im not the one saying I struggle to take my personal traumatic experience out of my decision making whilst simultaneously being responsible for decisions that impact millions of people.