Only a “full Level 5 lockdown” would contain the spread of the new BA2 variant, Minister for Health has told Sinn Féin. https://t.co/NoOCNSXlb5
— Independent.ie (@Independent_ie) March 29, 2022
This afternoon.
Earlier…
“When we look at the numbers in hospital, nearly 60% of Covid patients have not yet been boosted, so the single biggest thing we can do, is for those who haven’t yet got boosted, to do so,” Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly | https://t.co/sckIDnhvIf pic.twitter.com/LFXEgcDXVc
— RTÉ News (@rtenews) March 29, 2022
This morning.
Boosted, eh?
Earlier…
From top: Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly and the latest vaccine uptake stats
This morning.
Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly has said that the number of coronavirus infections in Ireland is ‘running into hundreds of thousands a week’.
Via RTÉ News:
Mr Donnelly addressed a meeting of Fianna Fáil party members online last night, when he said that the number of positive cases of Covid-19 is likely to be hundreds of thousands a week.
Mr Donnelly said that while the daily number of PCR and antigen tests can reach 15,000 a day – the true figure is likely to be two or three times that.
Despite the rise in the number of cases, he said that the “very firm advice” remained that no restrictions need to be introduced.
‘Hundreds of thousands’ of Covid infections per week – Donnelly (RTE)
65% favour reintroduction of mandatory mask-wearing indoorshttps://t.co/f5UfFZcuSj
— Claire Byrne Live (@ClaireByrneLive) March 28, 2022
Um.
Nothing stopping people wearing masks themselves, yet the overwhelming majority have clearly chosen not to. This would seem to indicate Claire’s survey is BS and heavily tilted in favour of masks by focusing the idiot and frightened portion of the population. It is clearly not reflective of broader society.
“Almost two-thirds of Irish people favour the reintroduction of mandatory mask-wearing ”
BUT THEN …
“1,000 adults participating on their smartphones”
Sounds like a self-selecting group.
Pure propaganda, as you would expect from Pravda.
How very dare you E’Matty,
Ms Byrne’s coverage of this pandemic has been consistently impartial and objective. She interviewed as wide a spectrum of scientific experts as possible, which has no doubt saved millions of lives.
Her steadfast resolution to deliver such advice without resorting to cheap manipulative tactics and tricks now makes her a national treasure.
That is what is called a CIÉ reference btw- too good to be true, and meaning the exact opposite. It is also legally bullet proof of course, because nobody sues you for saying nice things about them.
‘heavily tilted in favour of masks’
You guys are so far gone that masks, utilised to reduce the spread of an airborne virus, otherwise completely harmless, have come to embody a sinister evil so great a vast powerful network is conspiring to get you to wear them just to mess with you.
Nigel, do you think Claires reported survey result showing 65% support for reintroduction of masks is an accurate reflection of the general populations position on the subject? If so, why have the overwhelming majority chosen not to mask themselves?
Egg fn xactly
Well I’d be interested in the mechanics of how a poll could be made to focus on ‘the idiot and frightened portion of the population.’
Oh that one is easy- pretty much the sum total of the Claire Byrne viewership.
Of only they were as well informed as the Russians must be.
Or the English?
Just heard on the radio that there are 6000 healthcare workers out with Covid in the state.
Do they not wear masks?
I was told when I called private for a check I need I’d be faster to ring public…..
”a vast powerful network is conspiring to get you to wear them just to mess with you”
I think this sounds a bit like paranoia, Nigel, perhaps Donnolly is entirely ignorant of The Science & has zero knowledge about basic biology, virology & medicine in general. You know what someone should do when they have absolutely no knowledge about the job they’re trying but failing to do?
RESIGN! DONNELLY MUST RESIGN, NOW!
You’re right, Nigel, Donnelly must resign!
Yep…hasn’t Scare Byrne previous form in not showing polls where the No’s didn’t match her narrative.
Well government brought this upon us and they not us disbanded nephew
This humour dumpty moron has this on his shoulders and they Knew this new omicron was a virus of concern
If it gets worse we will see another lockdown
Either that or the collapse of the hospitals
Whoever dropped the mask mandate and allowed
Mass outdoor events of not thousands but near on 100 thousand needs jailing
And removing nephet during a pandemic well only a moron could make that call
I said when this pandemic started that the danger is not Covid but the clueless government running things
jaysus david can you not just stick to one username its so hard to ignore your comments otherwise god forbid i have to scrawl through a grammarless mess of word salad that i swear to god is like eating cement sometimes you must know what i mean after all it must be such a difficult life not knowing how to use a full stop or a comma do you also know how to tie shoelaces it’s not that hard with a bit of practice ok cool so we are agreed then a few less usernames and a few more commas good man
I think it’s about personal behaviour
To be honest Humpty Dumpty just drives me nuts .
A complete tosser.
If the EU tell him to lockdown he will just do what he is told and lock us all down.
This guy is a danger to us all ,and for god sakes just put him on a raft and just tow him into the Atlantic.
The sad thing is us taxpayers will be funding his retirement to the tune of over a hundred grand a year until he is embalmed .
Never worn one, never will.
We have been turned into a nation of hypochondriacs by the continuing fear mongering.
Good man sneezy
Just wear a flashing light on Your head to let us all know what to avoid
What kind of knob end are you. Are also from North of the border
Ah, to be fair. It’s clear the “nob ends” are the ones cycling with masks on.
Hundreds of thousands of cases, yet the ICU numbers have been stagnant for weeks. But just look at our media once again ramp up the fearmongering and hysteria.
Hush now- they have to ramp of the fear mongering to get the emergency legislation passed- expect max coverage tomorrow and Thursday until the vote- and then poof- its gone.
The fear mongering about the thousands and thousands dead of the vaccine and the unvaccinated tio be rounded up and put in camps?
You’ll have heart attacks caused by anything and everything but definitely not by vaccines causing blood clots and myocarditis. Definitely not.
Unless you are prepubescent male in which case myocarditis was unheard of before now- but we’ll just conveniently ignore that one.
There is also big differences in severity between the severity of vaccine induced myocarditis and normal in adults too but again, nothing to see- move along now.
Every heart attack from now on will be ’caused’ by the vaccines. How will we know? We’ll just ‘know.’
ah go on answer. Bet you won’t. Never have because you’re not able.
Pretty sure six months ago or more they were claiming over 90% fully stabbed.
Now it’s down to 80%.
Wot happen? Did 10% of people suddenly manage to unstab themselves?
Science…
I always had my doubts about the veracity of the 90%, based solely on a poll of my acquaintances.
I wonder what the final figure will be when the whole thing is over – if the truth ever comes out.
I’m not sure, jonjoker, I know the government lies all the time, in fact, given that they promise a whole raft of improvements to our lives in their election manifestos, which they then discard in favour of Censorship Laws, Gender Reassignment Laws & so on, which they never mention in their manifestos, they usually get elected, while actually in the process of lying to the electorate. It’s not like it’s a crime or immoral or anything like that.
Perhaps, just perhaps it’s another Tusla v McCabe scenario & some, unnamed, member of staff accidentally cut & pasted a 90% figure from a different document, by accident? Who knows, even if it is an accidental error, perhaps it’s still the correct number, accidentally. Every day, probably, some utter moron finds a fiver, so the 90% figure could easily, fairly easily, well, possibly, be correct. We can be sure of one thing, however & that is that we may never know.
10% died possibly?
it was at one point based on a proportion of eligibe population and under 18s were not eligible for a long time. When they were, the % goes down
Or perhaps, Leo, the government are lying? Maybe they’re lying by accident, so it’s not acceptable to accuse them. I mean, were we there when somebody did the calculation, possibly on the back of an envelope?
No, we weren’t, so we should just stop, stop criticising our government, they’re doing their best, probably.
A dog can’t meow, no matter how hard they try, it always comes out as a bark, so it’s silly to demand that our politicians, who have been elected to serve the interests of the Oligarchs, to serve our interests instead. It’s unfair, frankly, it’s Transphobic, in some way.
Could it not be that unboosted people are no longer considered “fully vaccinated” once they move out of the timelines set by the EU and as more and more people move out of that sphere, the percentage of fully vax’d will go down and down.
I could be mistaken though.
Probably and as for the poll, it’s a poll of people who appear to be Claire Byrne viewers so hardly a representative population sampling.
You know my views on masks etc. but even I take this with a rather large pinch of salt.
Don’t forget, Ian, toss some of that salt over your left shoulder, it wards off evil spirits & viruses, just as effectively as facerags, leaning away from people in a queue at the bar, not going to the bar or those experimental injections.
Try it, I bet you won’t catch Covid while throwing the pinch of salt.
They’re dead, hmmm. If you’re injected but dead, it’s probably the latter that’s more important than the former, in determining your health status.
I think we can be fairly certain of one thing:
EVERY SINGLE PERSON WHO TAKES THE EXPERIMENTAL JABS WILL DIE.
yes, we all die.
equally:
EVERY SINGLE PERSON WHO DOESN’T TAKES THE EXPERIMENTAL JABS WILL DIE.
Big difference between in 2 weeks and 20 years Cian.
One I can say with 100% certainty, CoVid-19 vaccinations 1, 2 or indeed 64 will not in anyway contribute to my future illnesses or demise- can you be certain of the same?
Let it rip.
https://gbdeclaration.org/
Two years on and no movement by the state to improve ventilation and air filtration in buildings and on public transport.
Let’s instead discuss face masks, and not even differentiate the effectiveness of different masks.
I really have given up on the ability of this state to act in the interests of its citizens :-(
Blimey, that’s an actual cogent criticism of government pandemic policies. What the hell is it doing here?
I know, right?
An actual, reasonable and relevant concern amidst a sea of dog vomit and word salad.
Fully agree with The Dude here, if a decision was made early on they could have had measures in place in schools and other places where social distancing is difficult but no, they preferred to do the lockdown hokey cokey for nearly 2 years and are still not addressing issues like ventilation.
I suppose that is because Stephen Donnelly spends 98.7% of his available brain power* trying to figure out which party/cause suits the Donnelly doctrine of self aggrandisement.
*At approximately 1/5th of the cognitive bandwidth of a dung beetle he never had much to begin with.
Also, in a world were you have so many frightened maskflakes terrified of choking on their own CO2, ordinary cloth or disposable masks are no help unless used by all.
As we have a considerable number of whining children terrified of their own germs (while also talking about building up their ‘immune system’ without a hint of irony) only N/KN95 or similar are much use in a situation where many are not masked up.
Lockdowns will work. Nope
Social distancing will work. Nope
Masks will work. Nope
Ventilation will work. Nope
Zero Covid will work. Nope
Vaccines will work. Nope
Boosters will work. Nope
ALL these together will work. Nope
Now it’s ventilation again.
Hark! Somewhere in the distance I can hear Orla Hegarty slowly emerging from her human sized HEPA filter like Darth fricken Vader. ;-)
I’ve been all over the place since this began wearing mostly KN95 masks.
On planes, in busy shops, buses, trains, taxis, workplace.
No covid. Either I am very, very lucky, very tough to the point that I never displayed any symptoms OR…..the masks have worked?
As an ex smoker who could do with cutting back on the beer and bacon I very much doubt it’s my enhanced constitution at play here?
Although, outside of surgery for an orthopaedic issue I have not been near a doctor in over 2 years, no colds, no flu or any other type of infection? It’s almost like my mask protected me!
You could also be immune
Dr Lukey was only on de radio to Pat Kenny the other day saying that if you haven’t got Covid, yet have been in lots of places with Covid, then you should present yourself for genetic testing as you may be one of the 10% lucky people who have a natural defence to Covid.
Is Lukey right? Has he ever been right? Sure who knows.
that maybe me !
Ian – Og. My 74 yr old father slept in the same bed as my mother who it turned out had Covid. Slept in another room once realised she had it, but that’s a couple of infectious nights on the same bed. No Covid. Some people just do not seem to contract it at all.
12 mins in if you fancy it Ian
https://www.goloudplayer.com/episodes/science-with-luke-is-returning-t-aHR0cHM6Ly9jZG4ucmFkaW9jbXMubmV0L3JhZGlvLWNtcy91cGxvYWRzLzIwMjIvMDMvMjQxMzI0NDQvMjQwMy1sdWtlLm1wMw==
I’d say its the barrel strength whiskey.
Only for the toughest of the tough.
Not that that stops me though.
Perhaps, Ian, perhaps. But also, perhaps, (sorry about all the perhaps’s) you’re actually not a human being, at all? That would definitely protect you from Covid. Maybe you’re actually Nigel, you two seem to get on very well, is he in the next cubicle to you?
On the other hand, perhaps (mea culpa) perhaps you did catch Covid & are actually dead.
It would explain a lot.
RIP
On the other hand, perhaps, Sars02 just isn’t that into you & you need to get over it, move on & find another made-up disease to obsess about. Being Non-Binary, Neuro-divergent or Trans-Gender are very popular illnesses, these days. Perhaps, whoops, you’re a Rainbow-Unicorn hybrid?
We may never know.
Why do people still not understand that the majority of people who become infected with SARS-CoV-2 NEVER develop symptoms- meaning they never develop CoVid-19?
Is there some sort of mental block in reading the above? If I was paid a fiver for every time I have typed this on Broadsheet I could probably go out and buy a new car now.
go on the nordies respond. Nobody has died of Covid, Nobody was really ill Nobody died in Urkania. Ah go on tell us, its all a lie. And show us the proof, other that some tick tock theories. soq and Cavan, we all know you’re the same
Perhaps, SOQ, it’s your method of delivery? I’ve watched people, over the last two years, accept any sort of fake science you could make up out of some leftover Old Wives Tales, once it’s delivered by a highly unqualified politician & then repeated, repeated, repeated, repeated, repeated, repeated, repeatedly, then repeated again, in the media, then repeated by Nigel, here.
I know, they get their The Science from the Telly.
Himself seems quite happy with my method of delivery actually.
good for you :)
oh answer. Stop being a d head and answer.
You’re so right, Ian, so very, very right. I’m sure there’s been numerous scientific, peer-reviewed papers that have established, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that homeless people, living in the well-ventilated outdoors, rarely test positive for pieces of RNA in their snot.
Maybe U2’s Bono could co-write a song with the poet Imelda May-hay, on the subject….
“Ventilation, ventilation, ventilation, let it go…Covid fades away-y-y”
I can hear it now, make it stop!
Yes, air conditioners are the way out of this deadly plague. We need to open our windows & flap teatowels at this deadly virus, while shouting “shoo!, shoo!”.
Makes as much sense as getting injected with a drug that might kill you or, & it’s a big or, SAVE YOUR LIFE!
Time for another Port Huron Statement, Dude.
Just make sure no-one compromises the second draft.
“Draft”, I like it, Ben!
Let’s get real here, if buildings are so important in the spread of this Deadly Cold, perhaps it’s time we thought about doing away with buildings? We did without a functioning Economy for two years, maybe we could demolish houses owned by poor people, to protect them, the houses won’t be of much use to them if they’re dead, after all.
When the government give the All Clear we can rebuild some of the houses & sell them back to the owners.
And once more for the beJayus- THIS is what the media headlines are about.
Emergency Powers are due to expire on March 31st, unless TDs vote to renew them.
The Emergency Powers allows a Minister to:
Set aside provisions of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights, the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU and of our own Constitution – without any public discussion or vote.
Restrict our right to Work, Travel and Associate.
Segregate and divide us based on Health Status.
Force us carry a Digital Certificate (ID card) in order to gain access to services, including sports, restaurants and bars.
Dictate, by coercion, what medicines are put into our body, or that we wear face-coverings without any proven benefit.
Delay medical treatments for things like Cancer and Heart Disease, in favour of a single illness which is far less dangerous.
Vote NO to Emergency Powers
https://www.change.org/p/oireachtas-members-vote-no-to-emergency-powers
done
ive had two vaccines and I had covid in December. I don’t need a booster. my body is fully aware of covid and will be able to deal with it again.
I’m getting sick of them chanting boosters boosters boosters while not making any advance on improving healthcare
Oh it is making advances alright- although inuring and killing people is generally not filed under the ‘improving healthcare’ section. The journal.ie ‘fact checkers’ and the Pfizer Times probably disagree however.
The problem with that Mr Fart, & you’ll know this just as well as our Health Minister, neither of you being doctors, is that it actually can take up to eight injections in total, to completely guarantee that you won’t get Covid.
This is achieved by making you 200% immune to every Sars02 Variant, every Coronavirus, every Virus & even Chronic Illness or accidents, by simply killing you. There’s a risk that the injections you got so far may not kill you.
Go get 5 more boosters, you’ll thank yourself later, in the afterworld.
RIP.
Cheap masks are as effective in stopping the spread of disease as leaving a bed side light in a child’s room is at stopping monsters and witches from entering the room.
They are little more than a virtue signalling comfort blanket for the indoctrinated scared sheep. Those that want to wear them can, and they can also check inside their wardrobe and under the bed before turning in to be sure the bogey man is not lurking…..
I would say closer to 1/4 of the population, mostly older RTE regulars maybe, are that rotted in the head with this psyop that they will never give up on masks and hand sanitizer.
https://sorendreier.com/list-of-30-studies-showing-face-masks-are-useless-against-covid-19/
Wait!….monsters and witches exist…FFS ive been lied to.
Have no fear, Gavin, the government will soon officially announce that Monsters & Witches exist.
We’ll know for sure, then, that they don’t.
Monsters are no longer allowed to ‘come out’ of closets now as that is deemed cultural appropriation.
You’re bad, SOQ. Baaaad.
Answer. Grow a pair the single of you and answer. Never do, why not. You’re too scared to debate
lol
Time to discuss original antigenic sin, ADE, AIDS, and why silenced epidemiologists warned not to vaccinate into a spreading pandemic. This is why.
Donnelly’s preferred solution is more of what’s causing the problem, but then he has stock to shift, doesn’t he? And a new flavour from Pfizer on the way for April.
They won’t, because that will mean admitting they were wrong, and no politician will admit to that- especially being wrong on such a scale- so they will keep doubling down until it really hits the fan.
Do you know what, freewheeling, you could be right. However, if you keep saying things that the government don’t agree with you could end up being Far Right.
If the health service was efficient and prepared as it knew it needed to be this wave would be taken in it’s stride. But this is dopey Ireland and looking six months down the line isn’t possible. Managment Fail yet again.
this is exactly it
Hasn’t everyone fupping had it at this stage, and often more than once baring people who are taking extra precautions like the elderly ? Can we get some real death figures ? Not just the ones with but of COVID ? It’s not going anywhere.
+1
I think the Government have reached the same conclusion.
Donnelly’s talking about boosters but no restrictions.
Seems to be the media that want the restrictions back.
Don’t know why the media would want everyone at home, on the internet, reading the news, watching TV, dividing people, consuming advertising, buying stuff onlin…
Oh wait a sec. ;)
…one last shake of the covid money tree. ;-)
That’s it, Janet & Madame X, (what, you don’t like an extra E?) it’s all just incompetence. Mistake after mistake, after mistake, made by left-leaning governments, in every country on every continent that The West controls.
Always the same mistakes, too.
Those Swedes & the Trump-supporting conspiraloons in certain US states who didn’t make those mistakes, well, they’ve got political opinions that are Not Cool.
Readily available data (linked below) shows the massive damage that these shots and booster cause to those that take them.
The government, all of them, do not have their citizens best interest at heart when pushing the experimental gene therapies with forever boosters.
https://swprs.org/covid-vaccines-the-next-vioxx/
At absolute most I see 10-20% of people wearing masks in shops, on public transport etc. If 65% of people were in favour of masks then surely they would, you know, actually wear them? Theres nothing stopping anyone from wearing a mask if they want to. Its pretty obviously a crap poll.
Or maybe, Zaccone, maybe you’ve just become so used to seeing people in facerags that your calculations are off by 45-55% or so?
Can you provide a link to your estimates & have they been peer-reviewed?
Hah, didn’t think so, you Far Right Nazi.
Anytime I have been in a supermarket there has been high levels of mask wearing – probably 80% wear masks.
When I was in a shopping centre over the weekend it was probably 30% with masks (indoors).
actually I’d agree, I don’t wear one, but most people are, it’s daytime shopping so generally an older age group
I expect there is also a class element to it too. M&S near full while Lidl not so much etc.
Couldn’t give a fiddlers myself as long as they don’t force their superstitious fear mongering rubbish on me.
Are there any reliable figures of vaccination (incl boosters) rates for incoming Ukranians; was the vac rate for Ukraine ante war circa 25%?
Would appreciate info if available.
Only about 30% of Ukrainians are vaccinated but the eastern European percentage in Ireland is much lower anyways.
For people that completed initial vaccination protocol (i.e. 1x J&J or 2x other ones)
Ireland 80%; Ukraine: 35%
https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explorer?zoomToSelection=true&facet=none&pickerSort=desc&pickerMetric=total_deaths_per_million&Metric=People+fully+vaccinated&Interval=7-day+rolling+average&Relative+to+Population=true&Color+by+test+positivity=false&country=IRL~UKR
Yes the Ukraine flag on a mask is now a new THING- ironic virtue signalling- or maybe that should be virtue signalled irony?
So which way wo the woke wake? Good Irish citizens who lined up to have the God knows what injected or the Ukrainians who despite a very large government campaign said no?
If only they’d all taken Putin’s vaccine he wouldn’t have had to send the army in to murder them personally.
answer lamb, or run ♀️ away.
cLoSe tHe aIrPoRts!!!
Is that cos of covid Kim?
No it’s because they haven’t the staff
That’s right, Kim, all airport staff were forced to take part in the drug trials, by the simple expedient of removing their “inalienable” Human Rights.
No wonder they don’t have the staff, they’re all too well-protected.
Bit of a clickbait headline to be honest (no comment) but just thought I’d pass it along
Denmark adds COVID-19 extremism in terror assessment
https://apnews.com/article/covid-business-health-europe-covid-19-pandemic-17b154cb5ff9dc21f3443917accf7f95?utm_source=iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=3972012_
Damn!
At first glance I thought it was the return of Frilly’s epic Bake Off series
Through the course of the pandemic we were told
– follow the science
– follow the public health advice
– only trust credible news sources
And yet now we’re being badgered by the ‘credible news source’ to buck the public health advice and the science and follow the court of public opinion. If 65% of Claire Byrne Live audience members on a skewed poll think we should wear mask then it must be so.
The media have a lot to answer for in the course of the pandemic and I hope they are brought to book
BA Mod.