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    #9332
    Wanderer78
    Registered Users Posts: 28,814 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


    Deleted User wrote: »
    We live in such a strange world now. People are outraged that 30 people in Essex went to Tesco without masks...

    (some of us!) got through the whole first wave without masks. Nobody wore the things before they were made mandatory.

    .......


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    #9333
    JimmyVik
    Registered Users Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭JimmyVik


    Plumbthedepths wrote: »
    You had Dublin live describing a scene of people sitting out in a park as shameful......some have lost the plot tbh.


    20 spare Vaccines were given to teachers and you have people in another thread literally stalking the children in that school.
    Whats the world coming to?


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    #9334
    Lundstram
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,129 ✭✭✭Lundstram


    This is what passes as investigative journalism in Ireland.

    https://twitter.com/McConnellDaniel/status/1377016828858359809


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    #9335
    Wanderer78
    Registered Users Posts: 28,814 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


    Lundstram wrote: »
    This is what passes as investigative journalism in Ireland.

    https://twitter.com/McConnellDaniel/status/1377016828858359809

    thats pushing it a bit now, investigative, absolutely not, journalism, barely, if even


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    #9336
    JimmyVik
    Registered Users Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭JimmyVik


    fcuk. My mother cut mine and my Dads hair yesterday.
    Now im afraid we going to end up on twitter and then beaten to death by the mob :)


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    #9337
    ELM327
    Registered Users Posts: 21,458 ✭✭✭✭ELM327


    Wanderer78 wrote: »
    patience there, wait till covid moves on, it ll be the usual, living beyond our means, its time to balance..... and blah, blah, blah!
    Considering we're wasting billions funding this ridiculous closures and lockdown, it will be necessary.


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    #9338
    Plumbthedepths
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,653 ✭✭✭✭Plumbthedepths


    JimmyVik wrote: »
    20 spare Vaccines were given to teachers and you have people in another thread literally stalking the children in that school.
    Whats the world coming to?

    Tbf one person did the stalking and one other justified it by claiming the children lost their right to privacy because of their Dads actions. The father was wrong but the children did nothing wrong and shouldn't be dragged into it. Although considering the two posters in question I 'm not surprised.


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    #9339
    Wanderer78
    Registered Users Posts: 28,814 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


    Wanderer78 wrote: »
    yes, if we continue to default, which we are, and continually elect fiscal conservatives, financially, the middle will be the ones getting hammered, again
    ELM327 wrote: »
    Considering we're wasting billions funding this ridiculous closures and lockdown, it will be necessary.

    this proves my exact point, it is in fact fiscal conservatism thats actually causing the majority of the squeezed middle. we need to grow and expand our economy after the fact, in order to do so, we will need a growing and expanding money supply. in a modern economy such as ours, theres effectively only two ways to do so, private sector money expansion via credit creation, and via the state, i.e. deficit expansion. by implementing deficit reduction, this forces this critical need out to the private sector, i.e. credit expansion. since we ve recently experienced this, particularly during the previous credit fueled expansion, which generally leads to things such as asset price inflation, in particular property and land prices, causing credit fueled booms and subsequent busts, do we really wanna do this again!


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    #9340
    Doctor Jimbob
    Registered Users Posts: 7,631 ✭✭✭Doctor Jimbob


    JimmyVik wrote: »
    fcuk. My mother cut mine and my Dads hair yesterday.
    Now im afraid we going to end up on twitter and then beaten to death by the mob :)

    I cut my own hair earlier in the week.

    Should I turn myself in?


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    #9341
    Wanderer78
    Registered Users Posts: 28,814 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


    Doctor Jimbob wrote: »
    I cut my own hair earlier in the week.

    Should I turn myself in?

    straight to jail, and no, your not getting the 200


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    #9342
    JimmyVik
    Registered Users Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭JimmyVik


    Plumbthedepths wrote: »
    Tbf one person did the stalking and one other justified it by claiming the children lost their right to privacy because of their Dads actions. The father was wrong but the children did nothing wrong and shouldn't be dragged into it. Although considering the two posters in question I 'm not surprised.


    Stalking of schoolchildren. Disgusting.


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    #9343
    JimmyVik
    Registered Users Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭JimmyVik


    Doctor Jimbob wrote: »
    I cut my own hair earlier in the week.

    Should I turn myself in?


    You should turn yourself in. Its the right thing to do.
    Then issue a grovelling apology to twitter, because if you dont, they will mobilize against you. Then its only a matter of time before all your mate have to issue statements disowning you for cutting your own hair, in case the twitter mob directs their anger at them next.


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    #9344
    GazzaL
    Registered Users Posts: 1,395 ✭✭✭GazzaL


    It's great to see all the photos and videos on the likes of Twitter of people out socialising and enjoying the sunshine.

    I know a lot of people would love to join them but they're too busy with "non-essential" work.

    The vast majority of people don't care about restrictions. I know loads of people heading off to their holiday homes for the Easter weekend.


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    #9345
    the kelt
    Registered Users Posts: 1,892 ✭✭✭the kelt


    Plumbthedepths wrote: »
    Tbf one person did the stalking and one other justified it by claiming the children lost their right to privacy because of their Dads actions. The father was wrong but the children did nothing wrong and shouldn't be dragged into it. Although considering the two posters in question I 'm not surprised.

    Are you serious, people stalking the school and others justifying it?

    Sweet Jesus what have we become!


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    #9346
    Mr. Karate
    Registered Users Posts: 1,373 ✭✭✭Mr. Karate


    Wanderer78 wrote: »
    yes, if we continue to default, which we are, and continually elect fiscal conservatives, financially, the middle will be the ones getting hammered, again

    Oh Please. If we actually had a Fiscally Conservative Government than we wouldn't be currently in lockdown. We would've done like Florida and opened and stayed open. And contrary to the Doom and gloom merchants they're doing great with no masks or social distancing.

    I'm looking for work in Florida or Texas at the moment. Let the Doom merchants pay for these lockdowns and see if they love them then.


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    #9347
    Plumbthedepths
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,653 ✭✭✭✭Plumbthedepths


    the kelt wrote: »
    Are you serious, people stalking the school and others justifying it?

    Sweet Jesus what have 'some people ' become!

    FYP
    I agree with your sentiment though.


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    #9348
    Mr. Karate
    Registered Users Posts: 1,373 ✭✭✭Mr. Karate


    Plumbthedepths wrote: »
    Tbf one person did the stalking and one other justified it by claiming the children lost their right to privacy because of their Dads actions.

    What did the Father do to think these idiots were justified in stalking children?


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    #9349
    Plumbthedepths
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,653 ✭✭✭✭Plumbthedepths


    Mr. Karate wrote: »
    What did the Father do to think these idiots were justified in stalking children?

    CEO of the Beacon, no matter what he did does not justify stalking his children .


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    #9350
    Lantus
    Registered Users Posts: 3,027 ✭✭✭Lantus


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    We live in such a strange world now. People are outraged that 30 people in Essex went to Tesco without masks...

    We got through the whole first wave without masks. Nobody wore the things before they were made mandatory.

    More sad. Risk is minimal and no telling if any have had vaccine. If a mask is so outrageous then why not campaign against seat belts and air bags? All safety devices on electrics? Insist that surgeons don't use any gloves or masks when they operate on them. These people are inconsistent in their silly protest demands. It's symptomatic of the education by social media society we live in.


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    #9351
    Mr. Karate
    Registered Users Posts: 1,373 ✭✭✭Mr. Karate


    Plumbthedepths wrote: »
    CEO of the Beacon, no matter what he did does not justify stalking his children .

    He requested vaccination for the teachers in his school. HSE granted it. Any grumbling should be directed at them. Certainly not children.


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    #9352
    mcsean2163
    Registered Users Posts: 1,839 ✭✭✭mcsean2163


    bucketybuck wrote: »
    Careful, you might stray into the question of personal responsibility, which is an awkward question that a lot of people don't want to talk about.


    Oh I do look forward to all the wailing and crying about other social issues that we are going to be subjected to when the covid monster runs dry.

    Mental health, homelessness, recessions, they are going to remember about all those things and start asking me to pay for them again.

    I think my sympathy is going to be lacking. People wanted this, they can have it, don't cry to me about the consequences.

    The people that will suffer from Mental health and homelessness are not the ones advocating continued level 5 lockdown.


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    #9353
    Wanderer78
    Registered Users Posts: 28,814 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


    Wanderer78 wrote: »
    patience there, wait till covid moves on, it ll be the usual, living beyond our means, its time to balance..... and blah, blah, blah!
    Mr. Karate wrote: »
    Oh Please. If we actually had a Fiscally Conservative Government than we wouldn't be currently in lockdown. We would've done like Florida and opened and stayed open. And contrary to the Doom and gloom merchants they're doing great with no masks or social distancing.

    I'm looking for work in Florida or Texas at the moment. Let the Doom merchants pay for these lockdowns and see if they love them then.

    ..............


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    #9354
    Plumbthedepths
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,653 ✭✭✭✭Plumbthedepths


    mcsean2163 wrote: »
    The people that will suffer from Mental health and homelessness are not the ones advocating continued level 5 lockdown.

    Correct the ones imposing the restrictions are in secure pensionable jobs, unlikely to be hit financially.


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    #9355
    Wanderer78
    Registered Users Posts: 28,814 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


    Plumbthedepths wrote: »
    Correct the ones imposing the restrictions are in secure pensionable jobs, unlikely to be hit financially.

    there is a huge disconnection going on there, but that has always existed, maybe they ll start panicking about it when theres a massive increase in unemployment, and potential homelessness, or maybe not!


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    #9356
    quokula
    Registered Users Posts: 3,573 ✭✭✭quokula


    Plumbthedepths wrote: »
    Correct the ones imposing the restrictions are in secure pensionable jobs, unlikely to be hit financially.

    The ones who want to open everything up are the ones who assume it's just other people who'll die, and don't care who has to die and how many people would be left mourning loved ones as long as they get what they want.


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    #9357
    Lundstram
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,129 ✭✭✭Lundstram


    quokula wrote: »
    The ones who want to open everything up are the ones who assume it's just other people who'll die, and don't care who has to die and how many people would be left mourning loved ones as long as they get what they want.

    There’s absolutely no one on here saying open everything up as if it were 2019. No one.

    There’s 290 in hospital with Covid ffs, there’s 5 million more people suffering too or do they not matter?

    A bit a balance wouldn’t go amiss.


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    #9358
    Pinch Flat
    Registered Users Posts: 7,761 ✭✭✭Pinch Flat


    El_Duderino 09 wrote: »
    The personal responsibility argument is awkward for those who advocate for relying on personal responsibility instead of enforcement.

    The other day we had posters saying the rule which mandates quarantine for people coming from abroad through NI was stupid because it can’t be enforced. But surely we can just rely on personal responsibility. I mean, if everyone assesses the risks and decides to come here through NI, then it couldn’t be a bad thing, could it?

    Likewise, lots of people assessed the risks and decided to travel to Ireland at Christmas. Others assessed the risks and decided to meet family and friends over Christmas and we had some pretty severe consequences ever since.

    Ah come on. Personal responsibility is an alien concept to so many here - its usually someone else fault. Like the gubberment.


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    #9359
    Plumbthedepths
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,653 ✭✭✭✭Plumbthedepths


    quokula wrote: »
    The ones who want to open everything up are the ones who assume it's just other people who'll die, and don't care who has to die and how many people would be left mourning loved ones as long as they get what they want.

    There is very few that want everything open, although have you given any thought to the outcomes for people in the future due to cutbacks caused by the present situation. You do I trust realise the billions we have borrowed to keep 'safe' sections of society closed will have to be paid back by tax increases and service cuts.
    I really find the emotive replies pathetic to be honest, mainly driven by selfishness for one's own situation.


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    #9360
    bucketybuck
    Registered Users Posts: 18,135 ✭✭✭✭bucketybuck


    mcsean2163 wrote: »
    The people that will suffer from Mental health and homelessness are not the ones advocating continued level 5 lockdown.

    Of course not, the bleeding hearts crying generally aren't the people actually affected by the real life issues. Just as the virtue signallers championing lockdowns aren't actually the ones affected much by them at all.


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    #9361
    El_Duderino 09
    Registered Users Posts: 19,980 ✭✭✭✭El_Duderino 09


    mcsean2163 wrote: »
    The people that will suffer from Mental health and homelessness are not the ones advocating continued level 5 lockdown.

    They’re just signalling their intentions to drop their concern for the mentally ill, homeless and poor, once covid is over. They might use those issues as part of an argument to end lockdown, but also have no real interest in those issues and won’t give a shyte about them when they’re no longer any use as part of this argument.


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