The inquiry into the handling of Ireland’s Covid-19 pandemic will reportedly take a “no blame” approach, a government draft plan reportedly suggests.
The draft, which was seen by RTÉ News, reportedly aims to be “independent, multi-disciplinary, objective and fair and should involve a no blame approach.”
The review is being dubbed an “Independent Pandemic Evaluation,” and will reportedly not be a statutory inquiry. This means it will not have the powers to compel witnesses to give evidence, nor will it be able to set limits on the government’s discretionary control of the inquiry. It will reportedly focus on “lessons” that can be learned from the pandemic and lockdown period.
The panel, which will be led by experts, will reportedly seek to gather evidence in a “non-adversarial” way according to the State broadcaster, and will compare the Irish government’s overall Covid response to that of other countries and governments. It’s understood that some of the evidence will be done in public, and some in private.
The inquiry will report to the Taoiseach, though a date for this has not yet been decided.
In October of last year, Gript asked Tánaiste Micheál Martin when the public could expect to see a Covid inquiry, given that other countries like the UK already had theirs well underway.
The Tánaiste replied that he’d prefer an “evaluation” of the State’s handling of Covid, rather than using the term “inquiry.”
Asked by if this evaluation could be expected by the end of 2023, he replied at the time: “I would hope so.”
“I prefer to use the term evaluation”: Tánaiste Micheál Martin says he’d prefer an “evaluation” of the State’s handling of Covid, rather than the term “inquiry.” Asked by @Ben_Scallan if this could be expected by the end of 2023, he replied: “I would hope so.” #gript pic.twitter.com/s3gnvdUVnI
— gript (@griptmedia) October 12, 2023
In January of 2022, Martin previously said that he didn’t want any potential inquiry to be overly punitive, because it might hinder efforts to combat future pandemics. He previously said he didn’t want the main ringleaders behind the lockdown and similar measures being pulled “out of the frontline to be inside in some room going through presentations.”
“I don’t want people during the next pandemic saying ‘there’s an inquiry coming’ and take a conservative approach,” he said. He added that while it was expected that mistakes would be made during a situation like a pandemic, he was “satisfied” that those making the decisions had always acted in the public interest.”
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Why did the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in 2021 draft an alert for heart inflammation, or myocarditis, and Covid-19 vaccines (Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna) for the public but not release it? According to an email by one of the officials it was in order not to alarm people. This is in reality medical malpractice. Heads should roll for this.
Why was no such notification given the Irish public by our health authorities who were so determined to keep the public fully informed about covid and vaccinations? This is in reality medical malpractice. Heads should roll for this. Accountability should begin at the very top. A no-blame approach is to cover up for this dishonesty and let politicians and medical people off the hook. This will seriously undermine the trust of the public in doctors and the health sector.
And would it be too much trouble for the “inquiry” to view the coverage from an EU Parliament committee in which a senior Pfizer employee candidly admits that Pfizer never tested their jab to determine whether could it stop transmission.
And that it didn’t stop you getting covid…but apparently stopped you dying.
Covid 19 was the Greatest Hoax ever perpetrated on humanity ‘
The experimental ,unapproved ,no-liability Injection ( never a vaccine) was the Greatest Crime ever perpetrated on a Fearful, Terrified, trusting,naive gullibility population world wide.
And now more from Germany
German chemistry professors have sent a letter to the Paul Ehrlich Institute (PEI), an agency of the German Federal Ministry of Health, writing that “the problems of mRNA-based vaccines are becoming increasingly obvious” and asking the institute to investigate such vaccines further and put a stop to them.
Useless waste of taxpayers money. We know who the phuckers are and who to blame. I can’t wait for the elections. If you supported Vax passes it’s an automatic NO
You are dead right Paul.
The next time there is a major issue like this, maybe call in experts in risk management, instead of relying on public sector staff and politicians, who have never taken a risk since they stopped wearing nappies. The solution was obvious from Bergamo, isolate the vulnerable and set up isolation hospitals for those badly infected. After a false start, Sweden managed it, but the media and “the science” didn’t want to know. Instead they wallowed in what I called Coronaporn.
Kakistocracy investigates kakistocracy and find no blame. There you go, I just saved us 10bn.
They all lied.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/01/25/covid-inquiry-bbc-misrepresented-risk-pandemic/
As my “handle” and any reference to “Covid vaccines” seem to trigger an “awaiting approval”, the posting of this comment is partly a “test of the system”. All I want to say is that a Prof Norman Fenton – eminent statistician – has some very interesting things to say “online” about fairly recent studies (some in the Lancet) which purport to support the “safe and effective” narrative. The Prof concludes that there’s some very shoddy work, indeed, in these studies. I say call Prof Fenton – among other dissentients – to give evidence to this “inquiry” !
He’s written great pieces for TCW.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/claims-the-unvaccinated-were-at-higher-risk-of-hospitalisation-and-death-were-based-on-deliberately-murky-record-keeping/
While I commend a reference to the work of Prof Norman Fenton, I would like to add a stunning statement from an obituary of Douglas Altman:
Douglas Altman, who has died (2018) aged 69, waged a long-running campaign to improve the use of statistics in medical research.
A professor of statistics in medicine at the University of Oxford, in 1998 Altman described the problem as follows: “The majority of statistical analyses are performed by people with an inadequate understanding of statistical methods. They are then peer reviewed by people who are generally no more knowledgeable. Sadly, much research may benefit researchers rather more than patients, especially when it is carried out primarily as a ridiculous career necessity.” (my emphasis)
Prof Altman would have been horrified had he lived to see the way politicians and “medical experts” abused, distorted and lied with statistics during covid years 2020-2022. He would have worked hard to expose the corruption in the peer review process of covid articles and called for accountablity. Our leadership have misled the Irish public and need to be held accountable.
Not at all news to those in the medical profession.
+30 years ago, a flatmate of mine was a doctor in one of London’s major hospitals. This doctor was involved in a few research projects under the direction of a prominent consultant (who was rarely to be seen , having secured the grant money).
Apparently, so the story goes, while all the study participants were being studied, and the data collected, no one had any idea how the study was going, whether the hypothesis was being proven or not.
Everything was given to the statisticians whose job it was to torture the data until they produced the desired result, or if that was not possible, then to extract any other seemingly positive result from it.
Notice how certain reseach gets funding despite fraud. Take AIDS. I have over the past 20 years read many reports of a breakthrough at the first stage of tests for a new treatment – probably done to keep funding flowing. What the reporters failed to do was to inform readers that there would be three sets of tests over a period of ten years to determine if the new treatment would succeed. There were no reports of all the failures at stage two and three – they simply disappeared quietly into the night..
The farcical restrictions and lock down of small business and building sites aswell as most of the health service caused more harm and now higher excess deaths.
Fines on students gathering outside, the 5km rule, €9 meal with your pint, not allowed to see dying relatives etc,etc,etc.
The blame…the politicians, certain acedemia and captured medics, pushed by a sensationalist MSM and big pharma,all feeding off themselves, with a vehement intolerance to opposing views.
A headline in today’s Daily Mail:
The great £10BILLION PPE shambles: Staggering waste of taxpayer cash on overpriced, faulty or unused Covid-era equipment – as critics say the sum is enough to give each NHS nurse a 100% bonus
How much waste occured in Ireland and why was a cost/benefit analysis not done before the lockdowns and mass vaccination campaign?
Going to hazard a guess that the scope of this enquiry won’t examine if like all other western countries with high COVID vaccination rates that there’s also a correlation (possible causation in some instances?) with the excess death rates in young and middle aged people since the rollout of these vaccines and also due to effects of lockdowns.
https://youtu.be/htRavAZ6jVE?si=GMENexIG1E1MBz_5
There is no need to spend taxpayer money on an inquiry.
Major decisions were made in haste and without conducting any kind of cost:benefit assessment.
NPHET’s terms of reference did NOT include a requirement to assess the Public and Mental Health, Social, Economic or other costs and effects of their recommendations, nor should they have, this could have created a conflict of interest.
BUT, no other entity was created to assess, or existing agency charged with assessing, the PMHSE costs of NPHET recommendations.
By default therefore, the responsibility for this vital function, essential to establish the cost:benefit balance of NPHET’s recommendations fell directly on the Government, but it took no action whatsoever to do so. This dereliction of duty has had enormous costs.
In the absence of cost:benefit assessments, NPHET’s recommendations were adopted regardless of cost.
As a result, enormous, only partially quantifiable costs have been imposed on everyone. International research published in peer reviewed publications has virtually unanimously concluded that the various coercive lockdown measures every where had no measurable benefit, thus the cost:benefit ratio was BILLIONS:
In any future emergency,in addition to the “emergency management agency/task force”, whatever it might be named, there must also be a separate, independent PMHSE cost:benefit assessment task force so the Government can make an informed decision.
It cost 30 billion and untold lasting damage .
Are they not in prison yet?