Gas how people didnât feel the requirement to visit A&E in the height of COVID throughout 2020. Numbers in A&E, waiting times and numbers on trolleys vastly down on previous years. Did they all die in ditches or were they piled up and burned like cattle in a foot and mouth outbreak I wonder. Ireland has been handing out free healthcare in the form of medical cards and free GP care to every Tom, Dick and Harry that catches a cold for far too long now. Itâs obvious to anyone whoâs tried to make a GP appointment in this part of the country for a long time now, often having to wait 2 weeks due to GP surgeries being clogged up with Bredas young fella and the like who has a pain in his forehead and doesnât want to go to school. GPs welcoming them with open arms as the national cheque book is wide open and full of pages. Theyâd think twice if they had to fork out âŹ70 everytime and I guarantee we wouldnât have the over crowding and barely existent GP service in many parts of the country if it was coming out of their own pocket
Lack of intelligence, inability to consider complex problems, and a deep psychological need to hear such complex problems reduced to crude conspiracy theory soundbytes and constant violent rhetoric against people who live in the reality based world.
All of Europe anyway.
The two places where zero covid was a success, NZ and Australia, are now moving away from it. Which shows up the stupidity of you still advocating for Ireland to implement zero covid just a few months ago.
At some point you might have to consider the possibility that itâs not everyone except you that is wrong.
Yes. Sam says stuff about ivor, ivor is given a chance to respond etcâŚotherwise youâd have lots of naive ill-informed lads forming opinions on the basis of what smug bigots like Sam and William decide is best for them
Ooooft
NZ are not moving away from it. Taiwan are implementing it successfully. Australia has done so with great success. So too South Korea. India is now doing so too.
I have never once seen you properly engage with an ISAG point.
Consider the notion of Covid endemicity.
Can you tell us that if this winter, if Covid now spreads widely around Europe and elsewhere - as now looks likely - that a new variant that supercedes Delta will not emerge?
Delta has an R value of we think around the 5 to 9 range. Variants emerge from mass spread.
What happens if a variant emerges that has an R value of, say 15? What about 18? Measles has an R value of up to 18.
Why would you think that in a mass spread environment that such a variant could not emerge?
You are promoting measures that will likely lead to mass spread. So itâs your question to answer.
Thatâs one of your most stupid posts yet, Iâm sorry I read it.
Sorry, but thatâs not an answer. And it only reveals your embrace of stupidity, not mine.
I am raising very serious, pertinent points here.
You are refusing - and thatâs what it is - refusing - to consider any viewpoint other than your own.
I donât know why youâre doing that. I can only surmise that itâs fear and denial.
But what is very clear is that you have not done your homework on this issue, and having read your posts for most of the pandemic, that, sad to say, has been the case throughout.
I expect a lot better from somebody who has traditionally been one of the better posters on the forum.
Ivorâs response was to threaten legal action. Did he really think that would scare McBride off exposing him for the charlatan he is?
If Ivor wonât call Talkback to put them straight maybe you could on his behalf.
How do you know? Did Sam tell you, or was it the bbc?
Weâre they taking calls? Was he invited? Was William protecting you?
Warned yis all last week about this.
Sorry to say I told yis so, but I told yis so.
Yesterdayâs change in mood music came as a total shock to most of this forum.
It shouldnât have done.
Tell me all about Ivorâs qualifications, pal.
The 10 per cent unvaccinated driving 50 per cent of the hospital cases currently Iâm reading. The edgy lads on here last week were celebrating the fact that the unvaccinated Callum Robinson scored a few goals for Eire and how it was great that it gave a two fingers to those concerned by the current state of affairs.
First tell me about Samâs
Different topic I think. Studies have shown that unvaccinated and vaccinated who tested positive had similar ranges of viral loads (wide variations within each group but not between them). How infectious they are isnât as obvious as there are numerous factors involved in transmission.
In people who develop severe disease they have high viral loads but also a poor immune response, so the disease progresses into their lungs. So in sick individuals a high viral load is associated with increased disease severity and mortality.
Sam is a reporter, mate. He isnât running social media channels making claims about Covid, Vaccination, conspiracy theories etc etc.
What are Ivorâs qualifications in the fields of, say, epidemiology? Virology? Public Health? Any of those at all. Or anything that might be in any way relevant at all.
âI donât know any country in the world thatâs done better than usâ, says Lisa Chambers.
Jaysus fooking Christ.
Misplaced hubris rarely ends well.
He has an opinion and he supports that opinionâŚthatâs all really. Many people find his some or all of his views interesting and valid, others dismiss them.
Which of his views were analysed for the benefit of the listeners?
YOU GOT TO PUMP IT UP ,DONT YOU KNOW PUMP IT UP , YOU YOU GOT TO PUMP IT UP âŚ
So no qualification. You know what they say about opinions and arseholes Iâd guess.