Ok had enough of this.

This fool is promoting Tracey's GoFundMe.

That'd be Tracey, the far-right Gemma-wannabe barrister from Galway - the one with the weirdo boyfriend who videos himself putting knives in trees during monotone speeches on 'freedom'.

Thread. https://twitter.com/FatEmperor/status/1297650984039178241
Ivor has a chemical engineering degree from UCD and also a degree in bolloxology from the University of KnowItAll.

He's apparently an expert in epidemiology now and also wrote a keto book, so just picture "Irish Jordan Peterson" -with somehow even less self-awareness.
One look at Ivor's Twitter and you'll see he was fully behind that far right rally.

Actually, he thinks the whole thing is a scam and deems the pandemic a "Casedemic".

His 'logic' is there are a lot of cases but no deaths happening, therefore the pandemic is over.
It's being kept going worldwide by shadowy Deep State forces, for a wide variety of reasons that make perfect sense to people with a mild detachment from reality.

I'd normally ignore this type of fool but he has a wide reach, so it needs countering.
It's absolutely and fundamentally true that Ireland - and more generally Europe - is experiencing large case loads that are not translating to ICU or death.

Younger people unlikely to get sick are being infected and, while it lasts, this is very good.

There's 3 key words above.
One problem (of many) with Ivor's 'logic', is case load is very much translating to death all over the world.

Peru, last 4 weeks:

Cases: 204,609
Deaths: 9,245
Case Fatality Rate: 4.5%

Romania, last 4 weeks:

Cases: 31,042
Deaths: 1,032
Case Fatality Rate: 3.3%
Kazakhstan, last 4 weeks:

Cases: 20,070
Deaths: 622
Case Fatality Rate: 3.1%

Saudi Arabia, last 4 weeks:

Cases: 36,648
Deaths: 860
Case Fatality Rate: 2.2%

Argentina, last 4 weeks:

Cases: 174,598
Deaths: 3,903
Case Fatality Rate: 2.1%
I'm sure it makes sense to Ivor why the Deep State in Kazakhstan wants to perpetuate a "scamdemic" on their people, by keeping a 'finished' pandemic going.

And upon reflection, I have a suspect in mind who might be behind this attempt to subvert that great nation.
What we actually see across the world is a simple picture.

Countries that managed to lower the median and mean age of positive case through Public Health interventions, are seeing fewer deaths.

Countries that haven't managed it, lots of people are dying.
If Ireland maintains 500 cases per week but you switch the demographic of each positive case from 80% under 45 years old to even 60%, we will categorically see rising deaths.

It's precisely what we see elsewhere today.

Older people will still die in numbers.
And if you are emotionally detached & believe 80-year-olds had a good innings, it might lead you to believe interventions are dumb.

If you have a shred of empathy, you might want those 80-year-olds living until 90. 95. 100.

Captain Sir Tom showed life is for living at all ages.
Ivor's most popular retort is there was no 2nd wave in 1918, and actually it was a different (mutated) virus in the winter.

What he omits is the key reason it spread so rapidly is European governments hesitated to lockdown during wartime.
Even in 1918, Sir Arthur Newsholme (the leading British Public Health expert) knew full well they needed a strict lockdown to contain Spanish Flu.

He decided against it on this basis:

"The relentless needs of warfare justified incurring risk of spreading infection"
World War 1 is long over. We have no excuse.

I've nothing against grifters and charlatans, until it comes to trying to jeopardize Public Health - and that's precisely what this anti-mask and other nonsense is attempting to do, under the guise of 'freedoms'.
That we are currently in a good place in Ireland is true.

ICU and deaths are low.

Whether that continues coming into the winter will be up to whole-of-society avoiding passing on infection to older people.

You can still have a fun social life. Just smaller gatherings.
That'd be Ivor Cummins BE(Chem) CEng MIEI PMP by the way.

Here's another UCD graduate:

Dr. Ronan Glynn BSc, MBChB, fISQua, MRCS, MRCPI, MPH, PhD

One of these people is an actual expert we should listen to, the other is not.

Wash your hands, wear a mask.
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