Reflection on the pandemic: questions about the authorities' response.

I genuinely can't understand what you are saying here, I can't make sense of it..

"You said "numbers fell off a cliff" which implies they rose to high point preceding it. You can hardly say nothing happened when you just described something happening. A virus doesn't know it's January" - this makes no sense.

They rose to a high point in January (during our viral surge where numbers shoot up, peak and then collapse in the space of 6 weeks or thereabouts) then the numbers fell again (and we started testing everyone again as opposed to people who just demonstrated symptoms)..we experienced this two years in a row.

"We didn't have the "same" result. They were different strains." - I have no idea what you are inferring here, again, you aren't making any sense, are you suggesting the case numbers in Jan 2021 were completely different to Jan 2022?

You would expect much higher numbers in 2022 because by the Feb we had dropped all restrictions and a more virulent strain of covid.

We get viral surges all the time during our flu season, what we saw in Jan of both years were viral surges, they may very well might have began in December but it doesn't matter it's irrelevant.

You might want to look at your own tone before you accusing people of ridiculing you, just saying.

Ya...we know the number of tests performed drop off after a viral surge...the same thing happened the year before...that's hardly a revelation!! They even stop testing people who don't demonstrate symptoms....so the data you posted is inaccurate, therefore useless!

Do you understand that?

You're kinda proving his point.

You don't get it.

The rules for who got tested changed all the time, especially during our Viral Surges (when they were overwhelmed no doubt), so comparing data across that time frame is utterly meaningless....the data you are posting is useless and misleading, pretty graphs and all that, but useless. If there were rigid rules in (across every jurisdiction included) place then perhaps you could look at data but even then there are hidden variables that must be accounted for! You simply do not understand the concept of data analyzing.

There is a saying in the industry, "Torture the stats and they'll tell you anything!!"

Ultimately, there are only a few real metrics in a pandemic that are relevant, excess death numbers and hospitalizations. Everything else is just useless really! In both cases we know they were exaggerated. There would have been no need to exaggerate them if the virus was as serious as we were led to believe!

Ya, I think one us is out of our depth here aright! Let's leave it shall we!

So do you accept that comparing the numbers, all numbers for January with the numbers for any other month is useless and meaningless?

I am going to ask you again, do you accept that the data for January 2022 (and Jan 2021) is incomplete therefore useless? Can you just answer that please? It isn't hard!

My god, you can't bring yourself to admit it can you? Why can't you answer the question?

The woman who first reported the Omicron variant told us as such the previous November....I'm not sure what their vaccination rate was but I'm gonna bet it was much lower than ours?

You still can't answer the question, we both know why you can't.

All I have done is suggest we got a viral surge in Jan 2021 and 2022 (we got the previous one in March/April 2020). And by February that surge had passed. The lock downs did absolutely nothing to bring the viral surge to an end... I don't need official numbers to confirm that, we all lived through it. We get viral surges every year, I am not aware of a single year in this country that we haven't seen one, can I produce data to back that up, of course I can't because we don't test people for the virus we normally see surging, the lack of data does not suggest we don't get viral surges.

I've never come across someone with so much faith in useless data than you, it's no wonder you can't interpret it, you don't understand what you are reading, I had to drag it out of you yesterday that our official figure of 8,000 deaths is inaccurate...you dragged that out all evening too!!!

My advise to you young man, is either get familiar with the world of data analytics and all it's pitfalls or stop consuming data...it's too much for you, seriously.

By right, you should remove those graphs you put up, it might as well be a drawing a 5 year did in arts class!

I see Paul Reid has followed in Ronan Glynn's footsteps in being given a big job with EY, a company which got millions worth of consultancy contracts with the HSE from the same Paul Reid during covid.

I also see Dr Tony got a big job with a laboratory which made millions from department of health from PCR testing after the state botched his fake trinity appointment while Dr 'Snakeoil' Philip Nolan was appointed director of Science foundation Ireland.

I'd really like to think that any future tribunal would look into possible corruption and cronyism in the above appointments