Most Comical/Hysterical COVID News Stories of the past few years

jimmybobbyschweiz

Not just in Ireland, to make this thread a bit broader. Here are a couple of examples that is quite funny to look out now, firmly being in the Hysterical category.

https://www.thejournal.ie/ronan-glynn-gatherings-5143048-Jul2020/

ACTING CHIEF MEDICAL officer Dr Ronan Glynn has said that images shared on social media of large crowds outside drinking at the weekend have made him “very concerned”.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/explainers-55017034

Can you keep the noise down?

Amid the excitement of reunions, it's perfectly normal for voices to be raised.

Add a little alcohol, and maybe have a TV or music on as well, and things can get even noisier.

But if someone is infected, the louder they speak, the more virus they release.

A lot of research shows that when voices are projected, people emit more tiny droplets of the kind that can carry the coronavirus.

So the advice is to avoid singing and dancing. At the very least, try keep those activities quiet or consider wearing masks.

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Sweetemotion

RNFoxtrot

TomSweeney

ancapailldorcha

Not seeing anything to laugh at with regards to a global pandemic that killed millions of people to be honest.

Sweetemotion

For some reason, BLM protests were immune to the spread of Covid.

StevenToast

Close thread.

Elmer Blooker

https://www.rte.ie/news/coronavirus/2020/1124/1180132-covid19-coronavirus-ireland/u

Silentcorner

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120100995#Comment_120100995

Jesus Christ!!! Do we have to ruin every thread!!

The best one for me was the deadly "Christmas Gravy Boat" senario we were warned about!!! I often smile when I think about what Charlie Haughey would have said to a health bureaucrat who told him he needs to warn the nation about that!!

Muahahaha

That Claire Byrne stunt was one of the highights of the craziness of Covid times.

I remember another couple by the Derbyshire Police who spent covid trying their best to outdo all the other UK police forces with their crazy schemes to get the public to stay at home.

First they used drones to shame people for hiking in a national park

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbvWniXcNhA

Then in an effort to outdo even themselves they dyed a blue lagoon black to "make it less appealing" in an effort to stop people visiting it

That one always gives me a giggle. I can just imagine a load of bobbies in Derbyshire during Covid sitting in the station (at 2 metres distance of course) concocting plans to make their local beauty spots less beautiful. Theres a certain level of losing the run of yourselves that you have to laugh at.

xxxxxxl

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120101211#Comment_120101211

That's what happens when you let Governments take personal freedoms away. They inevitably loose the run of themselves and try to out do each other. Walking in the wilderness does not spread covid. You could go to the shop breath in covid but not go outside. I followed all the guidelines here to do my bit not for me but for old folks my partner looks after at a home setting. I got 1 jab as it was Janssen . Fook getting anymore. Pretty sure I have had covid sense of taste went for a week or so early on. Seen grown people I know turn into nervous wrecks due to the 247 news. Grown men looking in Terror if a child coughed near them.

Peregrinus

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058279410/most-comical-hysterical-covid-news-stories-of-the-past-few-years

One day when a Tory MP compares vaccination to the Holocaust, advice on the transmission risks attendant on social gatherings is the best example of hysteria you can find?

StupidLikeAFox

The conspiracy theory that Tony Houlihan was using covid as an excuse to shut pubs forever

I also remember a headline like "Grandparents will be allowed hug their grandchildren from monday" - funny and sad

xxxxxxl

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120101392#Comment_120101392

Most grandparents I wager would have taken the risk to have that time with the grandkids that they lost. It's really sad to hear some dying alone or seeing the kids through a window.

Edit

Just to add you get to a certain age where Winter arriving is not great. I think in my case at that age I would rather had the kids over.

prunudo

The one where the gardai/police forces would pick on solo people in parks or beaches. But turn a blind eye to certain sections of society.

Being told not to have a chat over the fence to your neighbour.

Not being able to buy clothes for children.

Eamon Ryan telling everybody they can grow lettuce in window boxes to avoid going to the shops.

And generally any rule or advice that painted an outdoor activity as bad but staying inside in confined spaces, eating take aways as being good.

Best excuse heard, during first lockdown, driving 200km to Limerick to buy a trampoline for the kids.

17larsson

That government organised 'covid safe' concert where people needed to stand in their designated circle.

Other rules were; covid app, mask, bar closed at 9.45pm, one way system, covid test on entry

MilkyToast

I don't know if I'd call it comical, but putting "non-essential" items (like baby clothes that can fit one week and not the next, or toys after closing schools) behind crime scene tape was very far out.

Luxembourgo

The random falling over of people in China due to Covid and the fact this was never ever questioned

Ten of Swords

Mod - Moved to Covid forum

OP, a word of advice, don't start getting personal with people just because they disagree with your opinion.

Former Former Former

Jesus what a thread.

Next up, "biggest lolz from the Syrian Civil War?" and "post ur best Darfur memes here".

Top bantz. Kudos all round.

Hungry Burger

An absolute blinder from the BBC

”Wear a face mask during sex to stop the spread of Covid”

https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-53736087.amp

DLink

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120101542#Comment_120101542

All said with a straight face too!

astrofool

That the restrictions would be permanent (now moved to the Green agenda):

Climate foes push Great Reset conspiracy theory - E&E News (eenews.net)

The vaccine(s) contain 5G.

Why the Covid vaccines don't contain a magnetic 5G tracking chip (cnbc.com)

Masks don't work (despite all scientific discovery otherwise):

Still Confused About Masks? Here’s the Science Behind How Face Masks Prevent Coronavirus | UC San Francisco (ucsf.edu)

Anyone using the term "needlecraft" (seems to have come from this).

Anti-Vaxxers Are Spreading a Wild Theory About 'Disappearing' COVID Vaccine Needles (vice.com)

Gemma and her Gemmaroids (and suing the state with 0 evidence and asking for evidence on social media):

The magnetic vaccine believers:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWI0YiSmTKs

pjohnson

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120101771#Comment_120101771

At last a proper answer.

The conspiracists were a fantastic source of relief throughout.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120101450#Comment_120101450

And the highlight of this for me was comment online from some fair weather gig goers “ooooh this actuality better than the usual concerts”

jimmybobbyschweiz

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120101771#Comment_120101771

Jesus, haha. It's important to highlight both sides of the craziness. Some absolute loopers in these articles!

jimmybobbyschweiz

Simon "there were 18 covids before COVID 19" Harris, at a time when he was minister for health for the country.

https://www.balls.ie/the-rewind/simon-harris-covid-19-error-431793

Silentcorner

"Two weeks to flatten the curve" - Another one...pure gibberish!!

jimmybobbyschweiz

Our other health minister during the pandemic comparing sending kids to school to driving a car.

https://www.joe.ie/news/stephen-donnelly-compares-risk-sending-kids-back-school-driving-car-702114

jimmybobbyschweiz

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120102026#Comment_120102026

To be fair, I think a lockdown for two solid weeks would do the job but the fact they kept extending the two weeks every two weeks made a mockery of the public and their ability to trust that two weeks of lockdown would only be two weeks and not six months. Not really comical or hysterical.

HBC08

I supported most of the Covid measures at the time and tried to do my best and was working in healtcare aswell.

But this thread is great craic to look back on some things that were obviously completely bonkers!

I hope the thread keeps going as is and doesn't desend into a standard Covid thread mess.

Never seen the one with them dyeing the lake black,mental!

Silentcorner

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120102036#Comment_120102036

A two week lock down would have been just as effective as a 6 month lock down. Neither would have flattened the curve! But I get you, the thread should be comical...

Locking up public parks...reminded me for some reason of the clergy closing down discos back in the day!!

Houlihan always had the air of a bishop!! He used to remind me of Bishop Len Brennan!!

Spudman_20000

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120101124#Comment_120101124

Claire Byrne was something else alright, broadcasting fear from her shed on a weekly basis.

Let's not forget this humdinger from convicted drunk-driver Joe O'Shea, saying the unvaccinated were putting others at risk:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPlWF4gp0r8

I'd also add to the mix anything Luke O'Neill spouted on Newstalk. Have a search on YouTube if you want to inflict brain damage on yourself. It's a close run thing, but its hard to think of anyone else who got such a big platform to spout so many things that turned out to be wrong.

foxsake

most of the world lost all reason. people living in absolute terror cos the man on the TV told them too.

Claire Byrne - as referenced above- also had an anti lockdown lady interviewed and provided a trigger warning in advance of as not to upset the weak minded. pathetic stuff.

gardai breaking up mass and turfing out pensioners but lacked the same gusto for other sections of society.

on a lighter (idiotic) side - Luke O'Neill told us to if our granny was over for christmas to sit her at an open window.

Boggles

The grifter that sold energy drinks on Youtube suddenly becoming an expert in epidemiology and his blind following throwing cash at him.

Marcos

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120102304#Comment_120102304

Ah now, to be fair Luke O'Neill has had a great covid.

The Davestator

The 9 euro meal will take some beating.

I was at a wedding in a hotel when this was in place. We had the wedding dinner, and then moved downstairs to the private bar of the hotel for the second part of the evening. In order for us to get a drink, every person had to order another 9euro meal as we were in a different part of the hotel. I've never seen such a shameful waste of food.

freshpopcorn

Not really a news story but remember when Tubridy was doing those uplifting speeches during The Late Late Show when in actual fave he was just terrifying the elderly!

The rise and mainstreaming of conspiracy theories was comical because of how idiotic 99% of them were, until it became disturbingly tragic when some friends were preyed on

ancapailldorcha

Edgy Irish lads going on that Fauci had to be "got". I flew into Knock airport for a friend's stag and there were stickers to that effect along with other guff in the stalls. I removed them.

StupidLikeAFox

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120102436#Comment_120102436

I remember being in a pub and they had their dessert menus on the bar, conveniently all exactly 9 euro. 2 pints for the lads and 2 cheesecakes to stop the covid, cheers

Spudman_20000

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120102561#Comment_120102561

I almost forgot about oul Tubbers. Late Late Show audience masked long after mandates were lifted, but only for the plebs of course.

https://twitter.com/RTELateLateShow/status/1487179545740521477

Former Former Former

That poor bastard in Donegal being cajoled out of hospital by yer man, only to die an agonising death shortly afterwards.

Sure it was gas, wasn't it lads.

DLink

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120102932#Comment_120102932

There's always an outlier.

The Davestator

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120102932#Comment_120102932

You've misread the thread title.

landofthetree

1.

Pubs will never open again if we open retail.

https://www.thesun.ie/news/6173186/pubs-restaurants-never-reopen-retailers-allowed-december-professor/

2. Ireland can achieve zero covid without sealing country.

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/ireland-can-achieve-zero-covid-without-sealing-country-campaign-group-1.4473155

3. Summer 2022 social distancing should be brought back.

https://www.newstalk.com/news/social-distance-and-wear-masks-again-urges-scientist-amid-covid-surge-1364243

4. All the annoying people who said ending restrictions in Jan 2022 would be a disaster. Just too many to mention. Here is an example.

https://twitter.com/orla_hegarty/status/1485336434529689607?lang=en

Silentcorner

I remember watching a Euro game in a pub, all spaced out, vaccine passes checked, with the volume turned off yet it was the summertime...watching a match live from a European city with a packed stadium...when we wouldn't allow 500 people into a GAA stadium that had a capacity of 40,000 plus.

We wouldn't allow music either....because we might give in to the temptation of dancing!!!

ancapailldorcha

I forgot this somehow:

The bleach bit, not the testing positive.

freshpopcorn

@landofthetree it certainly gave lots of ones on Twitter a big following. Thankful the vast majority of these are forgotten about now.

landofthetree

Also all bedwetters claiming it was insane for the Brits to end restrictions at the height of summer with a very high vaccination rate.

They also wouldn't answer when asked when was the right time to end the restrictions.

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-the-monday-edition-1.6108340/england-s-reopening-is-deeply-immoral-reckless-and-unethical-says-epidemiologist-1.6108342

bb1234567

Tbh I don't find it funny in any comedic way which would make you laugh, COVID was bad enough but people's reactions somehow made it even worse than it needed to be imo. At the time it was really hard to believe the world would ever return to normal and these stories are kind of bringing back those really bad feelings of doom

odyssey06

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120103779#Comment_120103779

I suppose someone uses a slogan insult like 'bedwetters' as a substitute for thinking, could be expected to find thousands of deaths funny.

England's so-called Freedom Day, on 19 July, was a "gamble", which has contributed to more than 40,000 hospital admissions and more than 4,000 deaths.

https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19-unprepared-nhs-and-flawed-government-policy-contributed-to-coronavirus-crisis-says-bma-12406796

ancapailldorcha

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120103859#Comment_120103859

Nearly 200,000 Britons died and he's on about bedwetters. The pandemic really did bring out the worst in some people.

landofthetree

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120103859#Comment_120103859

They would still have restrictions if they listen to the NHS. They never wanted it to end. Same with our HSE. Blaiming their own failings on covid.