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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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Galway Hurling thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To katser: "Fantastic stalwart for Galway and definitely in the top bracket for most successful Galway hurlers of all time.
I reckon on head to head Joe Canning has won more overall for both Club and County." Hard to interpret what 'overall' means in your context there, but Burke had more county senior championship wins. On the 'head to head' aspect, Canning was the central figure on an all Ireland winning minor side at 15 years old in 2004. Burke would have needed to make that side as a 14 year old to match that 'head to head', which left him at a disadvantage, one would imagine.
Pope_Benedict (National) - 20/12/2025 10:13:18
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