We obviously don’t know it yet but I feel Sinn Fein won the next General Election last week when the Government went into panic mode and bowed to the altar of Nphet again.
When the Chief Medical Officer Tony Holohan says jump - Micheal Martin and Leo Varadkar say: “How high?” The voters are sick of it.
They threw our young people and all our pub and restaurant owners who hadn’t opened for 500 days under a bus by extending the ban on indoor dining and drinking – and didn’t give a damn.
By Tuesday 50% of the adult population were vaccinated, the rest should be done by the end of August.
We should reach our national goal of herd immunity within weeks, a remarkable achievement to be fair.
Yet Nphet (National Public Health Emergency Team) went into doomsday mode and produced numbers to terrify the nation with little or no scientific evidence to back it up.
They don’t want you to know this but remember Nphet is made up of mostly insiders - top officials from the HSE and the Department of Health.
Right through this whole pandemic they think they know more about this damned virus than the rest of Europe.
Therefore there can be no other reason why we were in lockdown more than anyone else, and why the new digital Covid Travel Certificate was not brought in here on July 1, like the rest of the EU.
Instead we disgracefully have to wait until July 19.
Nphet is not being properly held accountable for their decisions and the negative impact they are having on our society compared to our friends on the continent.
The panic over the Delta virus is hard to stomach. Yes we know it is out there but the difference now is every day thousands of more Irish people are getting jabbed.
We still don’t know from other countries like the UK if it is resulting in more hospitalisations or deaths.
One way or the other we have to learn to live with Covid.
Decisions should be made based on the number of deaths, how many in hospital and how many in intensive care.
On Monday there were 48 people in hospital with Covid across Ireland and 14 in ICU, really low numbers.
The problem however is our hospitals are so over-run now with people suffering from other illnesses that the intensive care units are practically full and the health service could not cope with a fourth Covid wave.
The Government and Nphet between them have failed to increase the number of ICU beds from 300 to 600 throughout this crisis, instead, they prefer to punish you and me instead by taking away our freedoms.
Dr Holohan refused to rule out the implementation of more restrictions again at the Nphet press conference the other day, depending on how bad the Delta wave of Covid is.
I was very taken aback by his comments because I don’t remember any of us electing the CMO as Taoiseach.
Are decisions like that not Micheal Martin’s job? Maybe the good doctor lost the run of himself for a minute.
Nphet is there to advise apparently. I think it is time we said No to their advice and got rid of them altogether.
Their opposition to antigen testing is a disgrace.
We need a new group of scientists led by Professor Luke O’Neill and taken from our top universities to advise the Government and not Department of Health insiders with their own agenda.
Vaccination is the game changer and any talk of more restrictions should be confined to the bin.
Let’s get everyone vaccinated, the bars and restaurants open indoors as soon as possible and get our country back to normal.
We have had enough of Covid and enough of Nphet.
