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Relaxation of Restrictions, Part IX *Read OP For Mod Warnings*

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,802 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    Well worth a watch if you have time.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 268 ✭✭Monster249


    While it's true that phase 1-3 trials ran concurrently rather than consecutively in the unprecedented race to respond to an ongoing pandemic, "long-term" does not compress, and wouldn't with all the resources in the world.

    Neither you nor anyone else knows how quickly any long-term adverse effects from mRNA vaccines show up. You don't need to pretend that you have some divine knowledge to say that you're cool with the vaccine. Risk is inherent in all medicine.

    And I'm afraid if you're expecting me to start changing my opinions because someone you disagree with shares them you'll be waiting a good long ****ing time, and that's the last time I'll address any such similar nonsense.

    Lucky enough you're in the vast minority of individuals with this opinion so no one cares if you change your opinion or not.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 42,566 ✭✭✭✭Boggles


    While it's true that phase 1-3 trials ran concurrently rather than consecutively in the unprecedented race to respond to an ongoing pandemic, "long-term" does not compress, and wouldn't with all the resources in the world.

    Neither you nor anyone else knows how quickly any long-term adverse effects from mRNA vaccines show up. You don't need to pretend that you have some divine knowledge to say that you're cool with the vaccine. Risk is inherent in all medicine.

    And I'm afraid if you're expecting me to start changing my opinions because someone you disagree with shares them you'll be waiting a good long ****ing time, and that's the last time I'll address any such similar nonsense.

    If you are apprehensive about taking a vaccine speak with your GP when the times comes.

    Chances are the way things are going you will more than likely be offered the J&J one anyway.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 42,566 ✭✭✭✭Boggles


    Well worth a watch if you have time.


    I got to 14 seconds before switching it off.

    Just goes to show you can't trust online reviews.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,802 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    Boggles wrote: »
    I got to 14 seconds before switching it off.

    Just goes to show you can't trust online reviews.

    Excellent contribution, would read again


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  • Posts: 966 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Boggles wrote: »
    I got to 14 seconds before switching it off.

    Just goes to show you can't trust online reviews.

    You're missing out, Boggles. Really picks up from 15 seconds on.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,695 ✭✭✭Penfailed


    Boggles wrote: »
    So zero tangible evidence to disprove the Commissioners summation?

    I have asked several times and none is forthcoming.

    So Fair enough. I'll have to stick with the numerous evidence I have seen and the Commissioners word on it.

    Jesus Boggles. You don't think that Ireland has had the longest, harshest lockdown in Europe and now you don't think there were 'normal' people at the protest? There are none so blind as those who will not see.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,657 ✭✭✭FintanMcluskey


    Excellent contribution, would read again

    The guy is a former senior Supreme Court judge who served for a number of years

    His views on the dangers of relinquishing certain freedoms is as informed and credible as anyone’s

    Only worth 15 seconds of time for some though


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,802 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    The guy is a former senior Supreme Court judge who served for a number of years

    His views on the dangers of relinquishing certain freedoms is as informed and credible as anyone’s

    Only worth 15 seconds of time for some though
    I don't agree with everything he says but he makes his case clearly and forcefully and he makes some excellent observations.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,234 ✭✭✭✭normanoffside


    Boggles wrote: »
    I got to 14 seconds before switching it off.

    Just goes to show you can't trust online reviews.

    I sometimes get the impression you're in the wrong thread...


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,668 ✭✭✭walus


    Well worth a watch if you have time.


    Brilliant analysis of this sh1t show and where we are all heading.

    ”Where’s the revolution? Come on, people you’re letting me down!”



  • Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 78,464 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Beasty


    eskimohunt threadban lifted following discussion with user


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,513 ✭✭✭bb1234567


    https://twitter.com/Independent_ie/status/1367419572547117057

    Will be mad to read back on some of the headlines like this in years to come. Imagine waking up from a coma and seeing this story out of context


  • Posts: 6,775 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    bb1234567 wrote: »

    Will be mad to read back on some of the headlines like this in years to come. Imagine waking up from a coma and seeing this story out of context

    Precisely.

    I think society is so consumed by the COVID experience that the shock value of much of what is happening won't hit home until many years into the future.

    No doubt we will all have our own "mad" stories of what happened during "the Pandemic" (or whatever colloquial phrase will develop to account for this period).


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,802 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    bb1234567 wrote: »
    https://twitter.com/Independent_ie/status/1367419572547117057

    Will be mad to read back on some of the headlines like this in years to come. Imagine waking up from a coma and seeing this story out of context

    Very sad


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,786 ✭✭✭wakka12


    Presumably there will be another anti-lockdown protest this weekend of some scale,will be interesting to see whteher the attendance grows or reduces. I would say overall the national public reaction last week seemed to be unsupportive and dismissive and even downright aggressive,and the media framing it as far right event also further hammered that home, so I wonder if that will put anyone else off going, or the fact quite a large crowd came last week will have encouraged more to attend the next one.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,802 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    I'd say the protests could be low level for a few weeks after the last sh1tshow


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,234 ✭✭✭✭normanoffside


    wakka12 wrote: »
    Presumably there will be another anti-lockdown protest this weekend of some scale,will be interesting to see whteher the attendance grows or reduces. I would say overall the national public reaction last week seemed to be unsupportive and dismissive and even downright aggressive,and the media framing it as far right event also further hammered that home, so I wonder if that will put anyone else off going, or the fact quite a large crowd came last week will have encouraged more to attend the next one.

    Cork this weekend.

    https://twitter.com/GraTire/status/1361357260979638273


  • Posts: 6,775 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]



    Now see this is a problem.

    I'm in favor of loosening restrictions faster than the government has announced, but this chap - in the Tweet - is so extreme that he and his lot are being lumped together with sensible moderates.

    Though I'm skeptical of the Irish hard lockdown, I'm equally as against conspiracy theorist paranoid-types such as him.

    Both extreme ends of the spectrum.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,234 ✭✭✭✭normanoffside


    Now see this is a problem.

    I'm in favor of loosening restrictions faster than the government has announced, but this chap - in the Tweet - is so extreme that he and his lot are being lumped together with sensible moderates.

    Though I'm skeptical of the Irish hard lockdown, I'm equally as against conspiracy theorist paranoid-types such as him.

    Both extreme ends of the spectrum.

    He seems to be quite left of centre.


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  • Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Anyone watching Prime Time, Paul Reid the waffler "if you take this quarter alone, we're trying to scale up..." Did you ever hear such non-committal blah. Hard fact, nine weeks into the program only 3% of the population have been vaccinated. Crawling along, getting outmanoeuvred by the UK and looking dim-witted compared to our continental neighbours. The economy stagnates further while the Government sits on their hands, is it any wonder the protest movement is gaining traction.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,341 ✭✭✭Allinall


    Anyone watching Prime Time, Paul Reid the waffler "if you take this quarter alone, we're trying to scale up..." Did you ever hear such non-committal blah. Hard fact, nine weeks into the program only 3% of the population have been vaccinated. Crawling along, getting outmanoeuvred by the UK and looking dim-witted compared to our continental neighbours. The economy stagnates further while the Government sits on their hands, is it any wonder the protest movement is gaining traction.

    I didn’t realise we were in competition with the UK.

    From what I can see we have administered about 98% of the vaccines that we have received, and are above average in the regard.

    What will protests achieve to improve that?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,918 ✭✭✭✭Loafing Oaf


    Allinall wrote: »
    I didn’t realise we were in competition with the UK.

    From what I can see we have administered about 98% of the vaccines that we have received, and are above average in the regard.

    What will protests achieve to improve that?

    I've heard big pharma is very impressed by lads chucking fireworks at the cops


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,802 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/eu-blocks-vaccine-australia/2021/03/04/c89b07c6-7cff-11eb-8c5e-32e47b42b51b_story.html

    Not a good look for the EU again.

    I mean, i understand it but i could also understand Australia viewing it as a hostile act


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,802 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    Allinall wrote: »
    I didn’t realise we were in competition with the UK.

    From what I can see we have administered about 98% of the vaccines that we have received, and are above average in the regard.

    What will protests achieve to improve that?

    If the Ireland is above the EU average then something is going wrong with the EU vaccine plan i would suggest. Ireland needs to join the list of other EU states going offside and securing vaccines outside the EU program


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 17,643 Mod ✭✭✭✭Graham


    If the Ireland is above the EU average then something is going wrong with the EU vaccine plan i would suggest. Ireland needs to join the list of other EU states going offside and securing vaccines outside the EU program

    I read Austria and another country are trying that approach. Any idea what vaccines and where they're acquiring them?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,564 ✭✭✭✭PTH2009


    If the Ireland is above the EU average then something is going wrong with the EU vaccine plan i would suggest. Ireland needs to join the list of other EU states going offside and securing vaccines outside the EU program

    Our lads don't have the balls to do that. Were the good boys of Europe


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,168 ✭✭✭ypres5


    If the Ireland is above the EU average then something is going wrong with the EU vaccine plan i would suggest. Ireland needs to join the list of other EU states going offside and securing vaccines outside the EU program

    it would've made sense for us to try and get an order of the sputnik vaccine before the eu approve it and doses get hoovered up but i guess it might have taken some initiative or maybe it might've been vetoed like antigen tests


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 17,643 Mod ✭✭✭✭Graham


    ypres5 wrote: »
    it would've made sense for us to try and get an order of the sputnik vaccine before the eu approve it

    Is EU approval on the cards?

    Has it even been put in for approval?

    Added; looks like the approval process started yesterday.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,168 ✭✭✭ypres5


    Graham wrote: »
    Is EU approval on the cards?

    Has it even been put in for approval?

    Added; looks like the approval process started yesterday.

    https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/news/ema-starts-rolling-review-sputnik-v-covid-19-vaccine&ved=2ahUKEwiTkuGA2pfvAhVThlwKHWzGDu4QFjAGegQIFxAD&usg=AOvVaw0ko4-5xlXDUzZSrzptdCfB

    the time for us to put in an order was weeks ago when the astrazeneca fiasco started becoming apparent


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