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

Nope I did not.

I said covid represented a threat to public health systems ability to function which was in some ways worse than cancer - it is highly infectious, spreads from patients to staff and vice versa. So it has a capacity to flood hospitals and reduce staff and capacity in short duration that cancer does not.

This has been misrepresented into implying I made a general unqualified point that "covid was worse than cancer".

As you just did.

So if you think I said otherwise find the post - otherwise if repeated you know you are deliberately misrepresenting another posters views.

Teachers should have wanted to come to school to work as they claim it's a vocation. That's certainly been undermined.

And yes windows should have been kept closed. This was stated at that time but due to hysteria and the strength of nasty teachers, the windows were kept open. A generation of kids have a negative impression of selfish teachers.

Thats not what was said though was it.

So you accept covid isnt harmless to kids then. Your post accepts it was the 8th leading cause of death.

If its the 8th leading cause of death then obviously that means other causes are more significant.

I dont see how it is fear mongering to point this out in response to a post which claims covid is harmless to kids. Such a claim is false medical misinformation. Noted that you did not challenge such a false claim - yet you jump in when I query it.

Further it was the 5th leading cause of death for age 15-19 in the US.

So I entirely reject your accusation as without merit or foundation.

There are a few Covid diehards hanging in there. Even the speech by Cormican who is an expert in this area is not enough for them.

You have to double down and pretend that kids were dying all the time because of a sniffle from Covid, and this justified them loosing months of education, development and social skills. They have to justify their position, no matter now with Hindsight how ridiculous it is.

It wasnt the only point I made though was it in response to Cormicans comments. Well?

I also posted this:

Can he guarantee that none of these kids with specials needs or in deprived areas would lose the valuable support of a family member to covid? Can he quantify that impact?

So your claims about blinkers and disingenuousness ring hollow.

You have latched onto that one point and misrepresented it as if it formed the entirety of my response. It did not. I challenged it as a false statement on its own merits.

You even accept that the statement that covid was harmless to kids to be false.

Yet you did not challenge it but rather the poster who challenges such medical misinformation!

Incredible stuff.

And that you did not challenge such an obviously false statement speaks volumes.

How much was the food in the canteen? It may have been safe depending on the prices.

Well what I bought was less than €5 so not sure if what I bought was not safe. We all know covid likes to infect people spending less than €9.

Only if you were having a beer apparently.

Basic scientific knowledge tells you the next wave of a virus is always weaker yet our response got stronger and stronger. Restrictions were unnecessary after the 1st wave. What we did to most vulnerable in society was inhumane.

We have to learn from the mistakes. The powers the government got were too much and our fake opposition went missing. I'll never forgive sinn fein for never challenging a single policy during that time.

Undoubtedly keeping the measures in place (and reintroducing them - pubs had to close at 8 pm for a few weeks) was utter madness.

It was clear then and clear now. The illness was a minor cold for the vast majority of people.

Hospitals were there to treat sick people. We don't lock down because of this.

My Covid app shows no uptick in the National numbers for positive PCR tests, and continuing low numbers for hospitalisations with Covid, The % testing positive is also quite low. Is one hospital very different? Why? Or is it OTT journalism?