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

Cheddar Bob

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121732850#Comment_121732850

I would judge any time period where my freedom was curbed by absolutely bonkers rules to be a form of lockdown.

In particular any rule which prevented certain sectors of society from resuming employment.

We had Europe's longest, strictest and most incoherent lockdown. It lasted, in various forms of severity, for 23 months.

I was in a nightclub in London til 5am in late July 2021. I flew home and entered a pub (as I had a recovery cert) which had about 12 people in it, all old men who had been the first vax cohort and thus had their certs.

Don't try tell me there was any rationale behind any of it.

odyssey06

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121741060#Comment_121741060

What you judge does not a lockdown make. Your post is meaningless when you make no distinction between any \ the slightest form of restriction = lockdown. Self discrediting entirely subjective word games.

That is 'hysterical' and 'comical', in the context of this thread to shout lockdown because of any form of restriction.

We did not have the strictest lockdown, as has been pointed out umpteen times on the forum. People needed passes just to leave the house in France at times. It was not the longest, strictest lockdown therefore unless you throw all meaning of words out the window.

Cheddar Bob

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121741074#Comment_121741074

Got it.

Your definition of lockdown is a Chinese or Australian one, where you literally can't leave your home.

Nothing else was a real one.

Childish stuff.

Are you aware of how much of an embarrassment of a country we are, where you could be in a nightclub in London at 5am and fly back the next afternoon to a country where probably 20% of the adult population were legally allowed into a pub, where they couldn't even sit at the bar?

A country which wouldn't open nightclubs, or drop mask mandates, for SEVEN MONTHS after their nearest neighbour?

More than half a year?

A country that would likely still be under some form of restriction had Omicron not come along and spoiled the party?

Spudman_20000

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121716666#Comment_121716666

And this was Leo almost 2 years into a Covid when we knew even more about the virus:

"The Tánaiste said while the future course of the pandemic, now approaching its second anniversary, is difficult to predict, Ireland is facing into a “long war” that could go on for several more years.

“There may well be a case to say, in this long war, that if it’s possible to have periods of freedom then that might make sense,” he said. “Because there will be other variants and there will be other winters and perhaps in advance of those winters and those variants we should try to have periods of freedom and give people a break.”

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/eu-travel-very-likely-to-require-proof-of-booster-vaccine-next-year-1.4758358

Yeah, no hysteria there then. "Long war", gimme a break. He was better off when he was quoting Mean Girls.

bucketybuck

The gaslighting from some people is staggering. They'd happily tell you being able to order food at a window means restaurants weren't actually restricted.

The pub selling kool-aid clearly didn't close anyway.

And I still haven't seen anything more comical/pathetic than that "concert" in Iveagh Gardens, the one with the sheep pens. Ain't no amount of desperate gaslighting going to redeem that farce.

odyssey06

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121742105#Comment_121742105

Yep no hysteria there. "There may well be..." "Perhaps"... "could..." speaking in contingencies and things that in the end did not come to pass.

This is your "hysteria"?

This is the best you can come up with, when his earlier speech completely refuted and cut the legs out from some of the false claims being made on this thread?

PTH2009

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121742197#Comment_121742197

Was just going to say that and those 'trial' events. Love to see what was actually learnt from those

We were doing all that while full stadiums were happening for the Euros in which we surrendered co hosting duties

bucketybuck

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121742248#Comment_121742248

A month or two after it Leo was away enjoying a festival in the UK, he certainly learned something from it.

Events like that are prime examples of just how much certain people completely lost the run of themselves. No matter how absurd the restriction, they never could take a step back out of the covid mania bubble and think for a minute how ridiculous it all was.

Though in fairness, if they didn't cop on when banning old men from being with their dying wives then absolutely nothing was going to pull them out of their self righteous nonsense.

Cheddar Bob

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121742197#Comment_121742197

Wasn't there big screens at it with a message reading "remember to tell everyone you had a good time" ?

Orwellian stuff.

The beatings will continue until morale improves.

PTH2009

https://youtu.be/BF6oLSwKMF0?feature=shared

This is a good vid of it all

Cheddar Bob

Today's hyperbolic nonsense about an emergency effort to track down every person who was on the same bus as the man who died with measles in his system (let's make that important distinction here) would remind you of Tomas Ryan and his Covid Zero crack team of commandos who would swoop in like some sort of Navy Seal mission to track down and isolate their chosen targets who had brushed off a positive case in Tesco.

fun loving criminal

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121746150#Comment_121746150

Measles is serious.

Trying to track down people who were at a restaurant and used a bus with the measles case. They came a long way from a covid case in the East/West/South.

Former Former Former

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121746150#Comment_121746150

Whether he died with measles or from measles is utterly irrelevant. What matters is that he had it, and it's a very contagious disease and very serious for unvaccinated people.

jackboy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121747779#Comment_121747779

Measles is measles. Try to track down people because they were in contact with someone who died from it makes no more sense than tracking down people who were in contact with a mild case.

pjohnson

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121748791#Comment_121748791

Just a flu yeah?

jackboy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121748801#Comment_121748801

What are you on about?

Milominderbender

The government encouraging the public to take the least vaccinated people in Europe into their homes at the outbreak of war in Ukraine. This was a few weeks after requiring vax passes to go to the pub and media personalities advocating that the unvaxxed should be shunned at Christmas.

The whole saga demonstrates that only a minority of people are capable of independent thought. They will follow the instructions of an authority figure presented to them no matter how ridiculous and contradictory those instructions are. The magic phrase "experts say " was usually all it took.

Cheddar Bob

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121779666#Comment_121779666

Similar to how BLM protests were granted an exemption, both by the Gardai and the zealots, on two occasions.

I seem to recall Ruth Coppinger organising a protest by the spire in regards to the Sarah Everard murder and kicking up a stink because some of her unwashed mates copped a fine at it.

The ultimate irony of course being that Ms Everard was "arrested" for violating the bonkers rules that loons like Coppinger were demanding we be subjected to. Had the Covid hysteria not existed he would not have been able to kidnap her in the manner he did. Now, of course, he would have done it eventually to some other poor unfortunate, but that particular incident to that particular woman likely would not have happened.

But it's not about the victims. It's about changing your profile photo to let people know you endorse the current thing. Only last week we saw the case of the old man in Blanch killed by a neighbour who, while always unbalanced, went absolutely crackers during the first lockdown. There's been several murders similar.

Cheddar Bob

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121779666#Comment_121779666

In March 2022 I heard an upper class woman on the Dart on her phone waffling on about her plans to take in some of the waifs and strays.

She was wearing a mask at the time. You couldn't make it up.

Cluedo Monopoly

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121741060#Comment_121741060

A lot of it was utterly bonkers alright but I doubt we would make those mistakes again if another virus entered the fray.

SteM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121783680#Comment_121783680

She was in a place she didn't feel comfortable so she wore a mask. She probably would asked that the 'waifs and strays' were tested before they came into her home if she was that paranoid.

What's the issue exactly?

Cheddar Bob

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121783721#Comment_121783721

She's inviting two, three extra people into her home who would be out and about all day, tripling the risk of the bubonic sniffles coming into her house.

Not to mention she probably wouldn't give the steam off her piss to a relative who needed a dig out but was willing to open her home to a trendy cause.

SteM

You don't know anything about the people she was taking in or their vaccination status.

Your use of terms like 'waifs and strays' to refer to refugees, 'bubonic sniffles' and your assumptions on how she would treat here relatives says a lot about your outlook on life.

Former Former Former

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Milominderbender

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121783556#Comment_121783556

The Sarah Everard murder is a demonstration of how the media is used to prevent what should be a natural public discussion. No less a figure than the sentencing Judge stated that the COVID laws were likely used to kidnap and murder Ms Everard.

A discussion on how those laws can be taken advantage of by sadists could have alleviated the suffering of victims who were forced into lockdowns with their abusers. Instead they ignored the Judges sentencing remarks and decided to go on an anti-men rant.

PTH2009

https://m.independent.ie/videos/dr-holohan-the-virus-loves-alcohol/39946057.html

The grin on his face

Milominderbender

The people in China collapsing on the street before COVID materialised in the West. Nobody asked why we didn't see this happen over here.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7923981/Coronavirus-Disturbing-videos-claim-people-collapsing-Wuhan.html

odyssey06

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121821083#Comment_121821083

Even the Daily Mail were circumspect on that one:

MailOnline has been unable to verify the videos, which are being widely circulated on social media. It is not clear where or when precisely much of the footage was taken, though all of it appears to come from China. 

Goldengirl

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121821097#Comment_121821097

Maybe they all kept on going until they dropped because they thought it " was just the flu "?

TalleyRand83

Delighted I managed to survive as healthy as can be without ever getting the Jab, I didn't proclaim just quietly went about my business but the hysteria of people around me talking about the danger of not getting the "vaccine" (what's the official re-defined line on the vax now, it doesn't stop you getting or spreading covid). A total over the top joke, people still defending some of the worst of to this day is eye-opening.