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Non-Gaa Forum - 3 Like(s)
After the pandemic was largely over I was talking to a leading cardiologist who had been involved with a government, not ours, when the virus first hit and he said that when they first examined it, it scared the life out of them, they had never seen anything like it. Subsequently I was reading how a doctor who had been involved with SARS, which for the record had a death rate of 13%, recognised the similarities but what really scared him at the time was the transmissability of Covid. Sars died out as testing and tracing and isolation eventually starved it, this was not going to happen with Covid. I am not even sure what the first version of Covid was but its not what we have today. Omnicrom was the one that perhaps became the last version before everything opened up and before that we had delta. The studies on both at the time was that both had the same death rate for people with existing pre conditions however the important difference was the age criteria as Omnicrom the age was much higher. Therefore younger people were less impacted.
For anyone to say that it was no worse than the flu all along, well they are ignoring the facts of the evolution of the virus. In a way the world go a pass with Covid as there was no guarantee that Omnicrom would come along, it could easily have went the other way, had this been a SARS with the same transmission ability, I am sure some of us would not be here today.
Data from the OECD would show that Ireland did not suffer excess deaths in that period but overall the OECD had an excess of 5%. Thoes stats do not make any attempt to say where the deaths came from or attribute cause, its a mathematical model. Perhaps over the two year period with the age profile some of the people woukd have died anyway. Oddly enough we have had one of the highest excess death rates in the EU since then - is what happened during Covid linked? No idea. However using these stats to say it was all a hoax also ignores the facts that the quarantine measures in Ireland were followed as society accepted it was something that needed to be done. It would be like having a car crash while wearing a seat belt, walking away uninjured claiming the seat belt had nothing to do with it. Some people it would seem will never be convinced unless you recreate the crash while not wearing it.
The vaccines were and are safe to take. While not tying to diminsih the impact that Covid had on people and their loved ones, the next time the world may not be so lucky.
zinny (National) - 19/12/2025 13:41:10
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David Burke...Enjoy The Retirement - 3 Like(s)
A great hurler. Definitely one of Galway's greatest ever. Only four Galway men have ever lifted McCarthy to the sky on the day that matters, and David Burke is one of them. Mick Kenny, Joe Connolly, and Conor Hayes were the other three, in case anyone did not know that.
David Burke gave it all for club and county, and no more than that can be asked.
Hope he stays involved in the game in some capacity.
foreveryoung (National) - 19/12/2025 13:44:23
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Looking Forward To 2026 - 3 Like(s)
Replying To S1234: "No Ballina guys as they are being rested. I'm not sure other then that who Andy had lined out . It's good to let Kobe go off on good terms with Mayo . We still have plenty of other young talents that Andy has called up . I'm more intertested in Sundays game which is being shown live on Mayo gaa .
Meath are a good side not saying your not just I don't read much into these games in December !" You've been slagging Meath for months, talking about them getting hammered by Donegal, slagging Galway for being beaten by them.
But now that Meath have hammered Mayo in a challenge game suddenly they're a good side? Which is it
PressureKick (National) - 19/12/2025 18:56:37
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Non-Gaa Forum - 2 Like(s)
Replying To Viking66: "We had a right wing government that time" Right Wing government in Ireland? Compared to what? North Korea? I think the best you could do is say they may have been slightly conservative.
SouthGalway (National) - 18/12/2025 23:47:59
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Non-Gaa Forum - 2 Like(s)
Replying To updwell: "Didn't thousands of healthy people die of Covid, I personally knew some who died- never sick before getting Covid but because it didn't affect you it was over played. All these amateur experts on vaccines living online knew way more than experts in the field who have studied this their whole adult lives. I work with an anti-vax religious guy who spent a month in ICU with a ' heavy flu' in his opinion who was lucky to survive. Wake up and just look at the facts and evidence staring you in the face but no conspiracy theorists know more than than the rest of us." Lots of people die every year. No more died during the Great Panic than at any other time. Overwhelmingly older people who were kept locked up in nursing homes which the "scientists" claimed was best thing for them!
I never mentioned vaccines by the way. Didn't take them for reasons of not trusting the State and others pushing them and by looking at the evidence that was staring at you as much as me regarding the hysteria.
Most people rightly feel that they were taken for fools now because they did what they were told. I didn't, and never have done.
BarneyGrant (National) - 19/12/2025 06:52:18
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Galway Hurling thread - 2 Like(s)
Congrats david burke on a magnificent career
jm25 (National) - 19/12/2025 09:31:49
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Non-Gaa Forum - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Viking66: "FF are not socialists and havent been since maybe the 1950s. FG never were. So no, they arent left wing parties. Not sure what exactly woke means, not sure people who describe themselves as woke, or others who describe other people as woke, know any better than I do either." FF and FG seem to hover around the middle depending on the topic or which way the wind is blowing. I agree they aren't left wing overall. The term woke is thrown around the last few years quite a bit and seems to describe those that think there are 100 genders, men should be in women's sports, unlimited immigration from anywhere and everywhere, etc. I really don't know who coined that term.
SouthGalway (National) - 18/12/2025 23:56:51
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Non-Gaa Forum - 1 Like(s)
My memory of the pandemic was that there were a lot of people dying, not just in Ireland but all across the Continent. I particularly remember some harrowing reports from Bergamo in Italy. It was like a dystopian scene.
I am open to contradiction on this, if anyone has reliable facts, but I don't think it is true to say that "No more died during the Great Panic than at any other time"
If this all was some great scare tactic, what exactly was to be gained from it? Plus, it would have taken a huge concerted effort from a host of different countries all across the world to perpetuate the great lie..
Politicians do what they do, but I would trust the scientists. Have they dedicated their lives and professional careers for the craic just? It's hardly some mad coincidence that life expectancy has risen so much. If it wasn't for safe and efective vaccination, honestly where would we be?
Lockjaw (National) - 19/12/2025 13:16:53
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Galway Hurling thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To jm25: "Congrats david burke on a magnificent career" A brilliant hurler for club and county. He achieved a huge amount. His list of honours alone doesn't tell the full picture, but it's not bad at all.
At county level:
Senior All-Ireland
U21 All-Ireland
3 National Leagues
At Club:
2 All-Irelands
8 County Titles
At College:
Fitzgibbon Cup
Individual:
4 All-Stars
Man of the Match in the All-Ireland Final
WanPintWin (National) - 19/12/2025 13:26:04
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