Silentcorner wrote: » https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/fears-cork-anti-lockdown-protest-could-be-super-spreader-event-40164807.html Cork protest could be super spreader. It was the mass protests that were welcomed by political establishments across the world in particular the US that for me determined how seriously to actually take the threat of this virus, here we are 8 months later and the tune is different. If you still trust media outlets remember, they think you are stupid, don't prove them right is my advice.
Ash.J.Williams wrote: » Ok we’ll listen to you instead, what do you want to do ?
Silentcorner wrote: » Can you not figure out how to think for yourself, too much to ask?
TonyMaloney wrote: » According to that list France has much lighter restrictions than we do. They have a 6pm to 6am curfew in place nationwide. And will do for another 4 to 6 weeks. Ranking the severity of various lockdowns isn't straightforward, and that Stringency Index does a particularly bad job of it I think.
Diarmuid wrote: » There is an overnight curfew which you can break for a whole bunch of reasons that you self certify with your phone For this weekend and last, in two counties (out of 90) there's a 5km restriction. For 4 days. Not like the 6 months you are experiencing in Ireland. It may be extended but history shows that if they do extend it, it will be for a very limited period of time I've been in France since Christmas. It's a million miles from the Irish experience. Both the restrictions, the attitude and the government response. Far more freedom in France We have discussed the Ireland v France attitude with Irish expat friends here. They generally don't discuss their daily lives with friends back home because of the Irish attitude. Telling someone back home that you called to your friends for lunch or went hiking in the mountains would require the Irish breaking out the smelling salts, not to mention the tut-tutting. The Irish really do not realise how restricted life is at home relative to our European neighbours
Richard Hillman wrote: » There are 2 countries that we tend to mimic, Britain and the U.S. We've mimicked Britain for Lockdown rules but conveniently took our eyes off the U.S. The rest of Europe the media have ignored bar the rules that would increase Irelands Lockdown like Curfews. The media will have nowhere to turn when the UK reopens.
Deleted User wrote: » RTE has been an utter disgrace throughout this pandemic, as have many of our so called experts, Luke O'Neill, Sam McConkey, Tomas Ryan (a neuroscientist) and the utterly demented Jerry Killeen who stated recently on Prime Time that he had lived through 4 pandemics and personally ended two of them. Was not even questioned on that statement. If he said he helped St Patrick banish the snakes, Claire Byrne would ask him which snakes we had in 5th century Ireland. Shows you how bad they are. Utterly terrible.
thisNthat wrote: » What about the amazing George Lee in RTE? An expert in absolutely everything.... :rolleyes: but will not, under any circumstance, allow any bit of positive news to be heard. Number dropping, oh its very worrying... ICU numbers at their lowest in months, oh its very worrying... I personally feel RTE have lost whatever bit of credibility they had left. There are a few who are worth their pay like Micheál Lehane and one or two more but the rest are nothing more than a glorified bunch of grossly overpaid incompetent journalists.
Faugheen wrote: » What has Luke O'Neill done wrong? I think he's the only one who has looked for any kind of positivity and hope in his contributions, as well as actually trying to explain what everything means. What ever about the rest of them but Luke O'Neill being a 'disgrace' I think is really harsh.
Chivito550 wrote: » Embracing celebrity status. Playing guitar on NYE special. Standing in that ridiculous bubble thing on Claire Byrne Live. None of us (outside of those who work in related fields) should know who these people are. The fact they've become celebrities is so depressing.
Faugheen wrote: » So because he made a name for himself with his fair, balanced contributions to COVID-19, people then looked into him and what he did, and found out he was in a band. Why should he turn it down? He's not a member of NPHET, he's clearly a very outgoing man whom a lot of people have grown to like over the course of the last year. Sounds like you're just begrudging him, if I'm honest.
is_that_so wrote: » Not too balanced on the AZ pause of last week, despite the clear reasoning behind it.
Chivito550 wrote: » I don't believe people should be personally benefiting out of all this, when so many people's lives have been ruined.
Faugheen wrote: » So no one person should be benefitting from this? Nobody at all? Nobody who was able to transform their business to deal with the pandemic? That's absolutely ridiculous. Loads of people have benefitted from the pandemic when a lot of people have lost their jobs. If everyone decided to give up because of everyone else then we wouldn't have an economy to go back to.
Chivito550 wrote: » Health "expert" public figures personally benefitting from pushing a narrative that is ruining other people's lives, nope I don't agree with that.
Faugheen wrote: » Exactly, he had clear reasoning behind it. While everyone else was being cautious on it he specifically said the science is being ignored. That is a balanced view, in my book, and the EMA judgement backed him up.
Jim2007 wrote: » Well you’d first have to produce some factual evidence of Irish public health officials benefiting from this before I’d even begin to take you seriously.
Chivito550 wrote: » Are Sam McKonkey, Luke O'Neill etc offering their many media appearances free of charge?
lee_baby_simms wrote: » Luke O’Neill is a household name since Covid arrived and used his new found fame to put out the obligatory crap book that should be filed in the ‘Christmas present for lazy people’ category.
Faugheen wrote: » What narrative has Luke O'Neill pushed that has encouraged ruining people's lives?
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