I question the finding, as Ireland had a death rate of 1,868 per million population. (For comparison, the US had 3,555 deaths per million population.) However, the Irish Times article pointed out that deaths from other causes, such as accidents, other diseases, and violence were down and the population increased by 8%, all factors which may have balanced out the deaths from Covid. And no, Ireland did not count accident, violent, or other infectious disease deaths as Covid deaths, regardless of what the antivax conspirators would try to say.
The Breitbart article, of course, spins this horribly. The very measures taken to protect people from Covid are spun as unnecessary because relatively fewer people died from it. "The precautions worked, therefore they were not necessary" is not logical thinking. In reality, the numbers show that the public health measures worked.
It's a real shame that charlatans in the US coordinated to spread antivax and medical misinformation messages throughout social media before the WHO even declared a pandemic. Faster than warp speed: early attention to COVD-19 by anti-vaccine groups on Facebook. They did so much to undermine public health efforts and give us the 15th highest Covid death rate in the world. And they are still doing everything they can to keep our Covid death rates high.
Since Breitbart (and so many other "conservative" media outlets) decided to go full-tilt with the antivax/medical misinformation messaging, I have to wonder if I can trust anything they publish. If they lie about Covid, what else are they lying about?
“...antivax conspirators...”
Gaslight.
OECD research shows Ireland avoided excess deaths during core pandemic years
CoupFlu was a scam.