kieranryan.bsky.social
Westport, Mayo, Ireland.
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Keeping an eye on this in an Irish context too. Deaths alone isn't a great metric, but deaths *and* serious injuries - placed against Covid wastewater levels - should give a strong indication of any links between Covid and road traffic collisions.
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Artist: Yuliy Ganf, USSR, 1953
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Two very good minor football semifinals live on @sporttg4.bsky.social freisin.
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Is Ireland going to continue hosting US warplanes while that country is attacking Iran?
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Good time to head down the Winchester?
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I thought I was only screwing over my grandchildren!
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Anecdotally, it seems to go up & down with Covid waves, but there's a lot of confirmation bias at play there.
I suspect - a few years from now - when road deaths & serious injuries are compared to Covid wastewater levels, the peaks & troughs will sync up quite well.
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No conspiracy, just capitulation.
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Definitely. Roads are crazy now: Drivers just *not* seeing things, making really poor judgements, manic aggression, and some really dumb manoeuvres.
Covid isn't anywhere near the radar of road safety authorities; they're still trying to blame lockdowns for changes in driver behaviour.
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That's tough going; a mental & physical battle. Wishing you a full & speedy (or steady) recovery.
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Oh gosh, sorry to hear that. Radical rest for the next few weeks, if you can.
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That messaging was nowhere near mainstream.
People were told it's fine, it's over, get back to normal, you have to live your life.
There was barely any platforming of dissenting opinions.
Blaming the general public will only reinforce the denial that's already so deeply embedded.
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Waking up every morning, opening up flightradar, hovering over the 'Book Now' button, before a fresh Breaking News alert about another step on the path to fascism and/or civil war in the US makes me pause, close my laptop and whisper, "Maybe next month..."
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I don't think it's fair to frame it as "failed to protect their own health."
That responsibility was dumped on people *without* the full knowledge of what it entailed. Public health faltered, and politicians created "personal responsibilty."
Uninformed (or misinformed) consent is not consent.
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Wow, that is real OPW-Preferred-Contractor money.
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There could be a simple connection: More Covid = more hospitalisations = more superbug infections.
Or it could be more complex, e.g. Covid infection = immune damage = opportunistic infection.
Either way, the apparent link warrants monitoring.
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Link:
www.hpsc.ie/a-z/microbio...
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Same guy, different loophole, a few weeks ago:
www.independent.ie/regionals/co...
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This interview has real "You let Dougal do a funeral?!" energy, and I'm here for it.
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The author is a cheap hack, and the IT blatantly use her as a clickbait merchant. Getting called out (and thereby increasing the exposure & reach of the hack job) is what they want.
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Respirator exceptionalism got baked in at the very start of the Covid pandemic, mostly to preserve supplies. You *only* needed a respirator in "high risk" scenarios. Surgical masks (at most) elsewhere. Then when people inevitably got infected, "Oh, masks don't work!"
No, respirators work.
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As time moves on - and the lockdown and immunity debt theories get flimsier - they are moving on to psycho- and sociological explanations related to lockdowns and mitigations, e.g. "The social contract was broken" or "Continued nervousness about illness as a result of Covid protocols."
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Our education minister, when reacting to our alarming 2022/23 school attendance figures, claimed that "nervousness about illness" (i.e. anxiety) was the main problem, not illness itself, and that she would be liaising with the Dept of Health to ensure the messaging around illness is appropriate. 🤷🏼♂️
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Some arsehole will put this into Chatgpt to find it.
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There's a very good comic strip — which I can't find now — showing a Democrat Donkey rambling about taking on the Republicans, while the Republican Elephants in the background unveil Glorious Leader banners, arm themselves with assault rifles, and steadily erect a gallows...
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Receipts:
Notified Covid cases:
respiratoryvirus.hpsc.ie
Covid wastewater surveillance:
www.hpsc.ie/a-z/national...
Covid "Spring Booster" vaccine uptake:
www.hpsc.ie/a-z/respirat...
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The ripples are going to be felt worldwide, unfortunately. Monsters, the lot of them.
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Sure it's only a hobby really. And sure it wouldn't be worth their while if you regulated or taxed them - so don't.