As if we needed more evidence of the lies they are deliberately selling.
“You have to be playing with the theory of mind of your audience,” said Tomás Ryan, a neuroscientist at Trinity College Dublin and co-founder of Ireland’s “ISAG” group that hopes to persuade the Irish government to adopt a ZeroCovid policy, in a session on strategy. “We’ve made a lot of tactical errors. We didn’t give enough time to selling the reward, which is so we can be like New Zealand.” His ISAG colleague Aoife McLysaght, a professor in molecular evolution, agreed: “We were the merchants of doom for a while… we’ve had to change our messaging. So we are now saying: you can have hugs again. You can go to music festivals. That kind of thing.”
They have made ridiculous claims on Level Zero. Nolan was absolutely right to call them nonsense.
Not smart enough to avoid swallowing stupid and obvious bait, avoid getting drawn into long tedious and pointless arguments, avoid getting yourself worked into a rage and firing out nasty personal insults that any reasonable man would be embarrassed by in the cold light of day, and most obviously, you’re not smart enough to make points succinctly.
It’s still a reduction of 300 cases on the previous Thursday with a 1% reduction in positivity.
You would have expected it to be a bit lower by now though.
The whole left/right schism about lockdowns is fairly daft from people to put it forward. There are not too many issues myself and yourself would find common ground on but the use of lockdowns to make up for government lack of accountability would certainly be one. Yet people from differing sides consistently try to defer it as the doing of their ideological opponents.