Interesting thread about Ireland’s handling of Covid

12 comments

  1. I don’t know enough statistics to argue with the analysis but if true it’s fascinating how much can turn on something that at the time was so unpopular.

    Fair play to those trying to do the hard work of understanding just what has actually happened over the last two years. The public perception of outcomes doesn’t always match what the hard facts say.

  2. It was deeply unpopular but did save lives. At the time it seemed like overreach but time has shown they were correct. Money can be replaced, lives cannot.

  3. I think despite what you read online, Irish people have a firm understanding of the “greater good”. It’s something I miss being abroad

    I live in the in the US, and the attitude here is “I got mine, fuck you”. There was just a collective shoulder shrug to 3000 people a day dying from it.

  5. Fair play Ireland, we’re top on Twitter, well worth the lost years and 10% inflation. Funny story, the average life expectancy of a nursing home patient is two years, most of the people we saved in lockdown a hAon are dead by now.

  6. It’s sad that the reddit threads which talk positively about Ireland get only a fraction of the comments and attention as the ‘Ireland is a dump’ threads.

    Imagine what it must be like in Government? Everything you do is seen as sh*t.

  11. Our covid response saved lives, but we were overzealous in closing down primary schools and too weak on vit D.

  12. Our response to covid was good, not great because some errors got made but I would have to say we got it right.

    You wouldn’t think it listening to some people but people prefer to throw out negatives instead of positives.

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