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

You might want to put on your seat belt for the upcoming ride from the zealots and hysterics crowd again and not to mention RTE. Hospitals are upticking a bit again. Unfortunately we’ll never be rid of them. We just need to ignore them and get on with it.

Such truly shambolic management of COVID and Omicron variants. There could easily be months more of this for them.

I know a lady who's still afraid of Covid. If she sees you without a mask she'll say it to you that your not wearing one.

She goes to various cafe, restaurants, clubs, dancing, etc. A few weeks ago she got a cold after a wedding. Everyone else at her table got the same cold but they tested positive for Covid but she didn't have it or bother doing an Antigen test because she wore a mask.

If Omicron had been a more severe variant instead of a milder one we probably would have implemented at least some of those measures.

The much-hated NPHET called it properly and Martin was very swift in ending it all. My own view of some of the scientists that elbowed their way to the front is that they were projecting a whole pile of their emotions and some deep-rooted dogma. Omicron, even a more severe version, showed up the pointlessness of continuing these measures. Some scientists surmised that this is where COVID would eventually end up, even in the earliest days, based on the past progression of viruses.

People should look at the "all cause mortality" numbers, adjusted for population size, for those two years, to get the true impact of Covid illness without, and with, the injected treatments.

I expect those numbers would be equally surprising to a lot of people.

The fact that he's reduced to local radio stations and not the national airwaves is some solace.

We did it bro. We stayed safe.

The Irish Times article explains it is 5384 deaths due to Covid:

In the deaths that occurred between March 2020 and February 2022, Covid-19 was identified as the Underlying Cause of Death (UCOD) in 5,384 cases.

Explaining this terminology, the CSO said that a death certificate can list multiple medical conditions of a deceased person, based on which, the UCOD is identified by applying World Health Organisation guidelines.

When Covid-19 is identified as the UCOD, it is classified as a death ‘due to’ Covid-19, which differs from when it is just one of a number of conditions listed for those who died, in which case it is classified as a death ‘with’ Covid-19.

https://www.irishnews.com/news/republicofirelandnews/2022/08/16/news/four_in_five_covid_deaths_had_at_least_three_medical_conditions_on_death_record-2800582/

Nonsense. Lots of countries showed excess deaths in 2020 who were hit hard by covid.

We have lots of elderly people in poor health. They arent all about to die.

Look at the age profile and co- conditions for ICU admissions and hospitalisations. These were people with decades of life expectancy ahead of them. They pulled through because medical care was there to save them.

Ah yeah sure who cares about the elderly eh

Well I suppose we can all cocoon ourselves in our houses and stop society then for evermore then because every year some elderly and venerable will catch something and die.

I was just making sure your weren't the loon with your earlier post!

Vaccines do force viruses to adapt and evolve - the original hung around a very long time and the same vaccines were effective up to Delta. Omicron, of course, did ease the way back to normality but how we got to Omicron is missing from your reworking of the story. Other countries as you claim, were actually way behind in fully opening up. We were just a few weeks behind the UK in everything.

I just assumed it was some sort of parody account

South Africa vaccination rate is 32.5% (fully vaccinated). Omicron came from there. If what you saying was true we would see omicron come out from one of the country with very high vaccination rate i.e. Ireland.

It is not the vaccines that brought around omicron. It was the isolation of individuals (lockdowns, flattening the curve - certain level of restrictions) that caused the virus to morf into a new more contagious and much less lethal form. Or else it would have happened anyway with or without restrictions.

Course it is a WUM .

OMG. Travis Barker has Covid!! I read it in todays Irish Independent. How will Kourtney cope and will he make a recovery??