Opening of "No-Food" pubs pushed out again

Deleted User wrote: »

Exactly, it was estimated that more than 60% of cases after July originated from a Spanish strain of Covid. Now it didn't sprout wing and target Ireland, this was brought back by a tourist who didn't have to self-isolate. Lax protocol there versus a handful of socially distanced punters in a local presenting imminent danger, collapse of the HSE among other uninformed hyperbole. An all too obvious double-standard becomes apparent to the lay observer. As others have pointed out, another few months of this repressive cycle will finish off many a traditional pub. Holohan and his aggressive anti-alcohol stance has no grasp of the economic fallout in rural Ireland, a lot of these essential social hubs won't survive until March. On the other hand, people can still travel from Covid hotspots importing fresh and more virulent mutations. The mind boggles.

I became seriously COVID skeptic* off the back of the bare faced lie in August/ September that foreign travel accounts for only 2 percent of cases. We did not organically get from 7 cases a day in July to 2000 per day in October- we got there when a few hundred people attended weddings in Romania and holiday homes in Andorra and came back infected.

When Sorcha came back from Provence to Foxrock, and spread it to her hairdresser, who then spread it to her sister, who brought it to the nursing home she worked in, the 25 patients in the nursing home were not treated as having been travel related. Only Sorcha was.

When the government is spinning lies and half truths like the above example you really do question what this whole thing is really about.


*- I fully believe Covid exists and that vulnerable people should be protected. I do, however, believe that deaths with Covid in the body are being misrepresented as deaths from Covid as a primary cause, that the government is being deliberately obtuse about what percentage of the dead were already on deaths door in the coming weeks/ months and had no quality of life left, that the risk to the general population has been exaggerated wildly, that the media have scared us to death with stories of the handful of fit young people having long lasting after effects (something that happens EVERY YEAR with flu) and that various state bodies have been taking advantage of the emergency for their own interests.

What sums it up for me is- the amount of professional athletes on these isles who had Covid must be near a four figure amount by now. Hundreds of footballers, rugby players, GAA players, golfers.

Yet of all those hundreds the only one who was sick enough to actually miss game time was Jack Byrne of Rovers. Everyone else seems to simply test positive and isolate. Even a lazy sicknote like Paul Pogba was back fit as a fiddle after a fortnight.

I don't recall a single manager three months down the line saying player X is still too croaked up to return.

Something stinks.

timeToLive wrote: »

we can see that chip on your shoulder :pac:

It was generally this type of entitled gobshiet that seemed to give off the "I simply MUST go" vibe. Those of us more inclined to 7 nights on the lash in Benalmadena knew full well it would be no craic and had no intention of going.

That and the Romanian clown at Dublin airport on RTE news happily telling of how he was off home to his son's wedding.

But no. It's Larry Goodman's fault it kicked off in meat plants. Couldn't be for a second anything to do with the behavior of the staff.

ShineOn7 wrote: »

Are ... are you really comparing trained athletes to the average Joe and Jane? And then thinking it's a conspiracy? ("something stinks")

Ok so

This is now my new fav unintentional comedy thread

Average Joe I work with has tested positive. 2 weeks house arrest. Only symptom he has is extreme boredom.

KaneToad wrote: »

Average Joe I work with was similar. But another average Joe in an adjacent office ended up in ICU.

Is he ok now?

ShineOn7 wrote: »

He's lucky so

Others haven't been

Not lucky. He’s in the vast, vast, vast majority of people who have tested positive and had zero symptoms or side effects. He’d have been extremely, extremely unlucky to have gotten sick from it.