COVID-19: Vaccine/antidote and testing procedures Megathread [Mod Warning - Post #1]

Ashleigh1986

It's in the medias interest to keep this gravy train ( covid ) going .
It's been 24 x 7 since March .
Throw in the amount of money the government has spent on covid advertising with tv stations / radio stations and newspapers .

ACitizenErased

funnydoggy wrote: »

Great suggestion . Who do you follow?

I find that COVID commentary is quite large-corporation based so I haven't been able to find anyone for it tbh. I'm a big fan of independent sports media in particular.


For vaccines, I think r/COVID19 on Reddit has some really great thoughts.

dominatinMC

ShineOn7 wrote: »

He's playing devil's advocate to garner conversation. I get that

But he has repeatedly taken a negative stance on things since March. You can almost hear in his voice at times that he's just stirring shíte for ratings

Not to derail the thread, but The Last Word has descended into the aural equivalent of The Star/The Sun, etc. a long time ago. Tabloid journalism for the attention deficient generation.

is_that_so

ShineOn7 wrote: »

He's playing devil's advocate to garner conversation. I get that

But he has repeatedly taken a negative stance on things since March. You can almost hear in his voice at times that he's just stirring shíte for ratings

I've always found him unable to steer a middle path - he has that Jeremy Paxman thing about him, but not the talent.

Le Bruise

I've probably been overly optimistic on vaccines/an end to the pandemic over the last few months, as that's the only way I can handle this whole thing in my head....this news has actually surpassed my optimism, and I couldn't be happier!!:)

is_that_so

Ashleigh1986 wrote: »

It's in the medias interest to keep this gravy train ( covid ) going .
It's been 24 x 7 since March .
Throw in the amount of money the government has spent on covid advertising with tv stations / radio stations and newspapers .

Perhaps but I think they'd like to get their own advertising revenue back up again.

MrMusician18

Stheno wrote: »

Same here, its almost "is this really happening?"
"Might this start to end in six months time?"

If the vaccine completes it's trial by the end of this year then we won't have to see what was believed to be the inevitable third lockdown in January/February.

The end is in sight.

funnydoggy

ACitizenErased wrote: »

I find that COVID commentary is quite large-corporation based so I haven't been able to find anyone for it tbh. I'm a big fan of independent sports media in particular.


For vaccines, I think r/COVID19 on Reddit has some really great thoughts.

Yes that subreddit is outstanding!

ShineOn7

Gael23 wrote: »

We should have a thread meetup at some point!

I propose a 2005 Boards era orgy


This place used to put Tinder to shame

jobeenfitz

funnydoggy wrote: »

Great suggestion . Who do you follow?

He follows everybody and licks them.

thefinalstage

I really hope that mink Covid doesn't spread or the Vaccine is much less effective....

I don't want to see the Mink Slaughtered though. As they say, the Jedis will feel this one.

ShineOn7

If the case numbers are in line with today's swab numbers then today could be the most positive this country has seen since Week 26

daydorunrun

ShineOn7 wrote: »

He's playing devil's advocate to garner conversation. I get that

But he has repeatedly taken a negative stance on things since March. You can almost hear in his voice at times that he's just stirring shíte for ratings

Him and plenty more media types who have gained more of a platform and relevance this year amongst a large new audience who have taken to watching/listen to news/current affairs programs. I know people who would never watch the news before or listen to talk radio and they are now hooked on interviews with Pat Kenny and his resident immunology expert Luke O'Neill. Regardless of weather they are negative or not they are certainly in a more influential position than this time last year. Lets just hope this time next year life will be back to normal and media types will have to find new subjects to cover.

BrianD3

ShineOn7 wrote: »

Matt Cooper weighing in now to hundreds of thousands of listeners on Today FM with "we're not there yet with this, are we?" and "what about side effects?"

Switched him off and I won't be back, I probably should've known better

I mean, of course we're not there yet. It's not here yet

But there's something genuinely wrong with how a large amount of the Irish media have portrayed everything since March

Matt Cooper - haven't listened to him for years does he still continually say "now hold on there" and is he still unable to pronounce the word Saturday (Saherday).

Covid (and Trump) are like heroin for the media, one of them is gone and there is light at the end of the tunnel to get rid of the other.

In six months we could well be back to Islamic terrorism, Syria, the gender pay gap and so on.

Ferris_Bueller

Ashleigh1986 wrote: »

It's in the medias interest to keep this gravy train ( covid ) going .
It's been 24 x 7 since March .
Throw in the amount of money the government has spent on covid advertising with tv stations / radio stations and newspapers .

100%. Can only speak for myself but I have very rarely tuned into the news in my lifetime, barring major events of course on a one off basis. I'd say I was glued to the news, sometimes twice a day for about 3 months straight earlier in the year. Their figures must be through the roof since all this started.

ShineOn7

From the daily thread, credit to user Minggatu

If all goes to plan with this then surely they'll get a major Humanitarian award?

"The firm that invented the #Pfizer vaccine, Biontech, is a German medical startup founded by the children of Turkish #immigrants: Özlem Türeci (CMO) and Uğur Şahin (CEO)."

stephenjmcd

Boris basically saying light at the end of the tunnel coming into view but can't let up on behaviours now.

Basically telling people to keep going

AssetBacked2

funnydoggy wrote: »

Fergal Bowers in with the "it's way too early" shtick.

Well done RTE you miserable bastards.

Don't worry, they have been destroyed financially this year (as if things were good before then). Big cuts will need to be made and the sooner the better AFAIC.

NIMAN

BrianD3 wrote: »

In six months we could well be back to Islamic terrorism, Syria, the gender pay gap and so on.

You forgot about the homeless.

Mr_Muffin

Where can I pre-order the vaccine?

polesheep

Mr_Muffin wrote: »

Where can I pre-order the vaccine?

It has already been done for you. It's akin to someone sending a drink to your table. Be glad we're in the EU.

ShineOn7

Ryanair's stock price at COB finishing just 45 cents short of their 16 Euro price on February 4th and almost double the price they were at on May 12th

timsey tiger

MrMusician18 wrote: »

If the vaccine completes it's trial by the end of this year then we won't have to see what was believed to be the inevitable third lockdown in January/February.

The end is in sight.

We won't have enough of the vaccine rolled out for that, if things go mental at christmas.

ShineOn7

270 cases reported today

Anyone who isn't positive about today as a whole probably never was to begin with before March

timsey tiger

polesheep wrote: »

It has already been done for you. It's akin to someone sending a drink to your table. Be glad we're in the EU.

Well with a kitty that we've all paid in to. But it helps to have friends at our table.

astrofool

Gael23 wrote: »

Even so 1.3bn vaccines equals 650million people. That’s only 10% of the world’s population.
Or can they licence the recipe out to other producers to further ramp up supply?

Gael23 wrote: »

Imagine the US gets first pick and they are 300m so 600m vaccines.
Don’t want to dampen this but they need to severely ramp up production to have any impact

Gael23 wrote: »

Will take years to vaccinate everyone then

I'm pretty sure people have answered these questions to you directly previously, and you have been on the thread long enough to have seen the written answers to these questions ad infinitum, are you being deliberately obtuse at this stage? What answers are you looking for to these questions that would differ from previously?

Breaston Plants

Absolutely fantastic news. Brilliant.

D.Q

ShineOn7 wrote: »

270 cases reported today

Anyone who isn't positive about today as a whole probably never was to begin with before March

Today has been a ****ing excellent Monday.

MerlinSouthDub

ShineOn7 wrote: »

Ryanair's stock price at COB finishing just 45 cents short of their 16 Euro price on February 4th and almost double the price they were at on May 12th

Booked my flights for next summer when I heard the vaccine news

landofthetree

polesheep wrote: »

It has already been done for you. It's akin to someone sending a drink to your table. Be glad we're in the EU.

They arent doing it for free.