Does anybody - at all - care about facts?

No, Ireland do not have "the highest Covid infection rate for healthcare workers". I& #39;ll have to check again but we& #39;re not even top 5 in the ones that counted.

Moreover, high detection rate and low death rate = good, not bad. https://twitter.com/AshbourneAnnie/status/1275496513515524096">https://twitter.com/Ashbourne...

Doctors and nurses in Yemen are quitting en masse because they feel it& #39;s a death sentence going into work, so many colleagues dying.

Yet they& #39;re doing "better" than Ireland on Healthcare Worker infections because, wait for it, they& #39;ve no fucking money to test anyone.

The following countries have widespread infection but are testing at the scientific rate of "fuck all" (135 times less than Ireland in Nigeria& #39;s case).

Iran, Brazil, Ukraine, Ghana, Argentina, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Mexico, Indonesia, Egypt, Nigeria.

June 10th:

Netherlands: ( https://rivm.nl/en/novel-coronavirus-covid-19/current-information)

Total">https://rivm.nl/en/novel-... infections: 47,903
Healthcare worker infections: 16,942
Infection rate: 35.46%

Ireland: ( https://gov.ie/en/press-release/b8a62-statement-from-the-national-public-health-emergency-team-tuesday-9-june/)

Total">https://gov.ie/en/press-... infections: 25,215
Healthcare worker infections: 8,087
Infection rate: 32.15%

Last time I checked, 35.46% is a bigger number than 32.15%.

Maybe maths don& #39;t matter to anyone anymore, just like facts, just throw them all out the window so.

The fact that INMO went in there and said "we& #39;ve the highest infection rate in world" is bizarre.

It& #39;s not just factually incorrect - it& #39;s unknowable, given the insane lack of testing elsewhere.

The places that have tested aggressively in Europe, all have high infection rates.

Ultimately what matters is deaths.

Cases: 8,172
Deaths: 7
Case Fatality Rate: 0.085%

That stacks up extremely well against anywhere. UK& #39;s CFR in healthcare workers is 8 times higher, Spain is 7 times higher.

It also stacks up well against flu according to the HSE& #39;s 2018 flu estimate for healthcare workers:

Covid19 HCW infections: 8,172
Flu season 2017/18 HCW infections: 19,850

But sure who cares, when people stroll into Govt committees making stuff up.

One nurse union in US said 80% of their members hadn& #39;t been tested *even once*.

Annoys me they& #39;re deemed to be doing "better" re healthcare workers.

IMO a better question is how many of the 600+ dead US HCW& #39;s would& #39;ve been saved by early testing? https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/932028">https://www.medscape.com/viewartic...

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Virus is vicious and I think people could do with remembering that and stop acting like it& #39;s nothing to have low deaths in HCW.

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