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Covid 19 Part XXXII-215,743 ROI (4,137 deaths)111,166 NI (2,036 deaths)(22/02)Read OP

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  • #9092
    sonofenoch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,523 ✭✭✭sonofenoch


    emo72 wrote: »
    The Phoenix Park was jammers today. People are losing hope.

    All hope is lost....lets go to the park


  • #9093
    CalamariFritti
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,355 ✭✭✭CalamariFritti


    Stheno wrote: »
    https://twitter.com/newschambers/status/1363570463423815683?s=19

    20% of worldwide deaths with only 5% of the world population

    Is that largely demographics though? I mean its maybe a nasty-ish thing to say but aren't they the biggest, oldest, unhealthiest population on the planet too?


  • #9094
    retro:electro
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,039 ✭✭✭✭retro:electro


    B.A._Baracus wrote: »
    "Travellers should be prioritized for covid-19 vaccination"

    https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/travellers-should-be-prioritised-for-covid-19-vaccination-1.4489764?mode=amp

    What a load of bs :pac:

    “This small but distinct group of people in our society are more susceptible to the virus”

    They should try wearing the masks so


  • #9095
    Mimon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,472 ✭✭✭Mimon


    CalamariFritti wrote: »
    Is that largely demographics though? I mean its maybe a nasty-ish thing to say but aren't they the biggest, oldest, unhealthiest population on the planet too?

    Doesn't help for sure, also having an anti science bleach gargling numbskull at the helm for this and a huge amount of Covid deniers was a bit of a drawback.


  • #9096
    Mimon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,472 ✭✭✭Mimon


    B.A._Baracus wrote: »
    "Travellers should be prioritized for covid-19 vaccination"

    https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/travellers-should-be-prioritised-for-covid-19-vaccination-1.4489764?mode=amp

    What a load of bs :pac:

    Rewarding bad behaviour, feck that.


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  • #9097
    h2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,403 ✭✭✭h2005


    MarkY91 wrote: »
    This is why numbers aren't dropping as expected.

    https://instagram.com/stories/jack_travers___/2513681018116946127?utm_source=ig_story_item_share&igshid=quqqqhay0op5

    It’s gone. What was it?


  • #9098
    GooglePlus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,010 ✭✭✭GooglePlus


    Mimon wrote: »
    Rewarding bad behaviour, feck that.

    Rewarding us by vaccinating them, you mean? Jesus, people are ****ing dumb. This group are what they are and are going to keep doing what they're doing, so vaccinating them as soon as possible benefits us all.


  • #9099
    MarkY91
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,072 ✭✭✭MarkY91


    h2005 wrote: »
    It’s gone. What was it?

    Big organized rave/party.

    Available to see in the link below. The usual Brazilian crowds not giving a **** about the citizens of the country they're a guest in. I've seen seeing these types of posts during the entire pandemic from the same groups of people.


    https://www.instagram.com/p/CLkRrgVB2xF/?igshid=2nsi5y13zn76


  • #9100
    Labaik
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 273 ✭✭Labaik


    TonyMaloney wrote: »
    Alcohol sales were banned for most of their lockdown.
    They're kicking the **** out of a variant we really need to see dead. They don't have the money that Western nations do to make lockdowns more comfortable.

    Fair play to South Africa. We owe them a drink.
    There would be a revolution if they banned alcohol over here :pac:


  • #9101
    Mimon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,472 ✭✭✭Mimon


    GooglePlus wrote: »
    Rewarding us by vaccinating them, you mean? Jesus, people are ****ing dumb. This group are what they are and are going to keep doing what they're doing, so vaccinating them as soon as possible benefits us all.

    No sends out the wrong message totally. Not a well thought through post.

    They are a tiny percentage of the population who stick to themselves so little risk to the general population.


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  • #9102
    Faugheen
    Site Banned Posts: 12,341 ✭✭✭✭Faugheen


    Coybig_ wrote: »
    This is the one of the more egregious pieces of trash I have read in this thread. A load of presumptious, accusatory nonsense.

    You are in absolutely no position to say what state anybodies mental health is in. Is somebody only allowed to be concerned about mental health if they, themselves suffer from poor mental health? Does every comment about mental health need to be prefaced with a disclaimer that they are suffering from poor mental health?

    Thankfully enough the almost fanatical worship of these lockdowns by a certain cohort of posters is becoming an outlier on these forums.

    And it's ok for people to tweet about a young woman who died by suicide (including how they died) and then to immediately link it to the pandemic, when suicide situations are completely complex and that person has no idea what led to that horrific situation?

    That's perfectly ok for someone to do, is it? Use that awful situation and make an assumption that it was linked to the pandemic?

    How about engaging with me about what I mean instead of making assumptions yourself? There are a lot of people out there who simply do not give a damn about the mental health of others in this pandemic, but they absolutely use it to further their own agenda.

    And I already said there are a lot of people suffering, and suffering badly, but a large cohort of the mouthpieces aren't and they spend more time talking about the things that should be open than about the mental health of others in this country. It's sickening.


  • #9103
    UrbanFret
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,059 ✭✭✭UrbanFret


    Mimon wrote: »
    No sends out the wrong message totally. Not a well thought through post.

    They are a tiny percentage of the population who stick to themselves so little risk to the general population.


    Didn't a priest end up in hospital after a funeral?:confused:


  • #9104
    GooglePlus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,010 ✭✭✭GooglePlus


    Mimon wrote: »
    No sends out the wrong message totally. Not a well thought through post.

    They are a tiny percentage of the population who stick to themselves so little risk to the general population.

    That is absolute ****e talk, they're not hobbits. They mix with their families, some settled and some not, with many of them living in large towns. Being from a town with a large traveller population, I can tell you that they mingle locally, shop locally and their sons/daughters have friends among many other families. Your idea of travellers is way off and getting their population vaccinated early is a good thing for all of us.


  • #9105
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    B.A._Baracus wrote: »
    "Travellers should be prioritized for covid-19 vaccination"

    https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/travellers-should-be-prioritised-for-covid-19-vaccination-1.4489764?mode=amp

    What a load of bs :pac:

    That article is an abomination. Prioritise those who have been openly disregarding guidelines, righto. Take your place at the back of the queue.


  • #9106
    Happydays2020
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,677 ✭✭✭Happydays2020


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    That article is an abomination. Prioritise those who have been flagrantly disregarding guidelines, righto. Back of the queue.

    They may already be in a priority list.


  • #9107
    TonyMaloney
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,150 ✭✭✭TonyMaloney


    There's a remarkable overlap with people who don't understand the need for restrictions and people who hate travellers.


  • #9108
    Happydays2020
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,677 ✭✭✭Happydays2020


    TonyMaloney wrote: »
    There's a remarkable overlap with people who don't understand the need for restrictions and people who hate travellers.

    There is also a remarkable overlap with “zero-Coviders” and racists.

    Personally have no problem with anyone who lives in crowded accommodation settings or workplaces being prioritised as is already planned.


  • #9109
    TonyMaloney
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,150 ✭✭✭TonyMaloney


    Happydays2020 wrote: »
    There is also a remarkable overlap with “zero-Coviders” and racists.

    This sounds juicy. Please, continue...


  • #9110
    Cork2021
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,443 ✭✭✭Cork2021


    Everyone should read this thread! I actually can’t believe what I read! These zero covid loons are delusional! Higgins gave up answering back to whoever was in charge of the page at that time (Ryan I reckon)

    https://twitter.com/higginsdavidw/status/1363565216106225671?s=21


  • #9111
    Mimon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,472 ✭✭✭Mimon


    GooglePlus wrote: »
    That is absolute ****e talk, they're not hobbits. They mix with their families, some settled and some not, with many of them living in large towns. Being from a town with a large traveller population, I can tell you that they mingle locally, shop locally and their sons/daughters have friends among many other families. Your idea of travellers is way off and getting their population vaccinated early is a good thing for all of us.

    Calm down. Your posting style is way too aggressive. Will ignore your posts after this.

    Just because you live in some hole surrounded by people not giving a **** doesn't make it a nationwide problem requiring special treatment.

    They are 0.7 percent of the population. I have plenty of experience of travelers, lots good but lots bad also so don't make presumptions about what I know.


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  • #9112
    Polar101
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,058 ✭✭✭Polar101


    emo72 wrote: »
    The Phoenix Park was jammers today. People are losing hope.

    It's not easy to see the correlation between going to the park when the weather is nice, and losing hope.


  • #9113
    Paula Jolly Tack
    Posts: 2,825 ✭✭✭ Paula Jolly Tack


    Mimon wrote: »
    Rewarding bad behaviour, feck that.

    Safer for society if they are vaccinated first. The majority of that group will not abide by any rules or public health advice.

    Vaccinate the riskiest first is a proper approach.


  • #9114
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 232 ✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Richard Hillman wrote: »
    I know people saying disband NPHET is deemed reactionary or without thought but genuinely, why do we still need them?

    The risk for the Government is if they disband NPHET, they have them outside the tent pissing in.

    You would then have Holohan, with his season ticket to the Late Late Show, denouncing Government policy, in public, weekly, continuing his terror campaign against the Irish people, and opinion pieces in all the papers campaigning against the Government.

    I happen to agree with you that NPHET should have been disbanded after Holohan's behaviour in October and replaced by a National Covid Management Team, but there's no way the Government is going to have these guys forming what would effectively be the Opposition.
    CalamariFritti wrote: »
    Is that largely demographics though? I mean its maybe a nasty-ish thing to say but aren't they the biggest, oldest, unhealthiest population on the planet too?

    It was a perfect storm for the USA. They have huge health inequalities, and a health system which - by design - allows chronic conditions to go untreated and unameliorated. They have systemic poverty on a scale unimaginable in Europe, massive racial health and educational inequalities, and until last month had a president who viewed science much in the same way as he viewed witchcraft.

    The United States were a sitting duck for a pandemic, and their entire pandemic policy was "shucks, let's hope we don't get one".
    Labaik wrote: »
    There would be a revolution if they banned alcohol over here :pac:

    There wasn't a revolution when they banned people from visiting their mam.

    We don't do protests or revolution.

    The country would be much better governed if we did.


  • #9115
    TonyMaloney
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,150 ✭✭✭TonyMaloney


    Cork2021 wrote: »
    Everyone should read this thread! I actually can’t believe what I read! These zero covid loons are delusional! Higgins gave up answering back to whoever was in charge of the page at that time (Ryan I reckon)

    It's not really that mad. Put it this way - what would you do if you had a fully vaccinated population, but the threat of an imported variant undoing everything exists?

    That's the reality we're headed for. What are we going to do? Either we, the public, take precautionary measures until the threat subsides or we do something about our borders.

    What do you think will happen if there's an outbreak of some variant amongst a vaccinated population?
    Even if it's mild, we'll lock the **** down.


  • #9116
    Professor Moriarty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,392 ✭✭✭✭Professor Moriarty


    b0nk1e wrote: »
    The risk for the Government is if they disband NPHET, they have them outside the tent pissing in.

    You would then have Holohan, with his season ticket to the Late Late Show, denouncing Government policy, in public, weekly, continuing his terror campaign against the Irish people, and opinion pieces in all the papers campaigning against the Government.

    I happen to agree with you that NPHET should have been disbanded after Holohan's behaviour in October and replaced by a National Covid Management Team, but there's no way the Government is going to have these guys forming what would effectively be the Opposition.



    It was a perfect storm for the USA. They have huge health inequalities, and a health system which - by design - allows chronic conditions to go untreated and unameliorated. They have systemic poverty on a scale unimaginable in Europe, massive racial health and educational inequalities, and until last month had a president who viewed science much in the same way as he viewed witchcraft.

    The United States were a sitting duck for a pandemic, and their entire pandemic policy was "shucks, let's hope we don't get one".



    There wasn't a revolution when they banned people from visiting their mam.

    We don't do protests or revolution.

    The country would be much better governed if we did.

    Christ.


  • #9117
    Happydays2020
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,677 ✭✭✭Happydays2020


    Cork2021 wrote: »
    Everyone should read this thread! I actually can’t believe what I read! These zero covid loons are delusional! Higgins gave up answering back to whoever was in charge of the page at that time (Ryan I reckon)

    https://twitter.com/higginsdavidw/status/1363565216106225671?s=21

    Thanks.

    This reply is bang on.

    https://twitter.com/lizaobb/status/1363469432903905281?s=21


  • #9118
    hmmm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,202 ✭✭✭✭hmmm


    Polar101 wrote: »
    It's not easy to see the correlation between going to the park when the weather is nice, and losing hope.
    True, if anything it's great to be able to get out in the good weather today. Could feel the mood lifting a bit.

    I don't get the obsession with complaining about people in parks. Particularly in Dublin the 5km rule means people who are abiding by the rules are obviously going to go to the few amenity spots. There's little evidence of any significant transmission of the virus outdoors, it seems to be a plainly good thing for physical and mental health if people are getting out and about (while remaining careful to keep a bit of distance).


  • #9119
    Happydays2020
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,677 ✭✭✭Happydays2020


    TonyMaloney wrote: »
    This sounds juicy. Please, continue...

    Person who makes a generalised statement with little evidence challenging a person who makes a generalised statement with little evidence.... the only thing is that there is a anti-traveller mindset with many and there is an anti-foreigner mindset with many (both of which have come to the surface over the last year).


  • #9120
    hotmail.com
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,435 ✭✭✭✭hotmail.com


    Britain pushing ahead with reopening by June.


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  • #9121
    893bet
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,856 ✭✭✭893bet


    Thread banned


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