Failing The Smell Test

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Eamon Ryan

This morning

Further to Eamon’s Ryan’s ‘positive’ covid test where the Minister for the Environment said his private secretary was later contacted by the HSE to say the result had actually been “inconclusive”…

…via Fergal Bowers:

The Health Service Executive has said that around 25 to 30 repeat PCR tests are conducted each month, after issues arise with the first test.

It said that repeating a PCR test and interpretation of the result can take into account the person’s clinical history, their clinical condition and the reason for the first test.

The HSE said it may also take account of whether or not they were a close contact, if they had a previous positive test result and “various parameters within the test process itself.”

The HSE said that as a patient’s test result can be reviewed by a GP and public health at a local level, the HSE Test and Trace programme will not necessarily be made aware of all individual patient cases where a repeat test is ordered.

Hmm.

Anyone?

Up to 30 PCR tests repeated each month – HSE (RTÉ)

Yesterday: My Second Test

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14 thoughts on “Failing The Smell Test

  1. ce

    In the words on Jürgen the German tourist character from ye olde Harry Enfield days – “This would never have happened under the Nazis”

  2. Mr.T

    If the test needs repeated, they will never tell you first its positive.

    The sheer volume of statements and spin coming out is proof enough that there is something to hide here, Ryan wanted a negative test so he tried again until he got one.

    1. f_lawless

      I was going to say the same thing myself. Surely if and when an issue arises, it happens at some point before any notification of result is sent to the individual. I don’t believe the health services would then initiate further testing at their own instigation which in effect undermines public confidence in the reliability of the PCR testing system

  3. Zaccone

    Its fairly definitive proof that a significant portion of our positive cases, that so often have resulted in lockdown measures, are in fact false positives.

    Eamon Ryan obviously knew this so got himself a second test so that he would be allowed travel. But god forbid the public realises this and starts losing faith in the government’s testing/lockdown regime…

    The whole thing has distinct echoes of golfgate or merriongate – the rules only exist until someone in the elite gets caught breaking them.

  4. Micko

    So, we’ve tested 184 thousand people in the past week

    So that’s 736 thousand in the past month

    Let’s round that down to 700K to be fair

    They say 30 tests out of 700K are inconclusive a month.

    That’s a 0.004285714285714286% chance of Eamonn being an inconclusive result.

    What a lucky ducky he is… and just when he needed a get out of jail card.

    He got to go to the ball after all – stuff of fairy tales ;-)

      1. Micko

        Good point.

        It’s pretty funny alright.

        The simple fact is that if ANY of these people were scared of Covid they would be in their gaff, under the bedsheets with 17 masks on.

        But they’re not and they keep telling us we should be.

        We should have known since Golfgate, when all these old rich powerful people went down to party – and that was before vaccines FFS.

    1. Micko

      As far as I’m aware the tender process was suspended at the start of Covid.

      Pretty handy if ya wanna sort your mates and family out with contracts eh?

  5. Fergalito

    “Is the water hot?”

    “I don’t know…”

    “Will i put my finger in it?”

    “Do …”

    **dips finger in water**

    “The water IS hot.”

    **30 minutes later**

    “Is the water hot?”

    “I don’t know…”

    “Will i put my finger in it?”

    “Do …”

    **dips finger in water**

    “The water IS not hot.”

    “So it’s cold?”

    “No, i didn’t say that. I said it’s not hot.”

    “Oh…errr…”

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