Relaxation of Restrictions, Part X Read OP For Mod Warnings

gozunda · 08-04-2021 01:54AM

GT89 wrote: »

I can understand with elderly folk and people with underlying conditions who over the last year have been frightened into oblivion due to covid by the msm. With younger people with no underlying conditions it is pure paranoia.

Genuine question: How do you know which "younger people" you see out and about in public have underlying conditions as opposed to those with "pure paronia"?

dublinbando · 08-04-2021 02:47AM

Wait so can you actually get covid from briefly walking past somebody outdoors?

Boggerman12 · 08-04-2021 02:57AM

When I see people in a park or on their own driving a car with a mask on to me it shows how ****ed up the messages from nphet and the fear mongers has been.the mental scares inflicted on society is incapable of being calculated and we’ll be dealing with it for yrs.

gozunda · 08-04-2021 03:32AM

dublinbando wrote: »

Wait so can you actually get covid from briefly walking past somebody outdoors?

Maybe some people don't want to risk possible infection or their just being careful in case of close proximity to others. The point is who knows what anyones reasons are.

In Spain - mask wearing outdoors has been made mandatory since the End of March. I'd love to hear the reaction if the government here brought that in.

I do wonder how many would go on holiday there - if Spain still has that rule in the summer?

Russman · 08-04-2021 04:01AM

Boggerman12 wrote: »

When I see people in a park or on their own driving a car with a mask on to me it shows how ****ed up the messages from nphet and the fear mongers has been.the mental scares inflicted on society is incapable of being calculated and we’ll be dealing with it for yrs.

Do you seriously think anyone wearing their mask in their car isn’t on their way to/from a shop or somewhere they need to wear one ?
You don’t think someone could leave a shop and simply not bother to take the mask off or bin it til they get home ? Personally I don’t ever wear one on the way to say, a shop, but almost always leave it on when driving home purely because I just couldn’t be ar$ed taking it off.

facehugger99 · 08-04-2021 08:05AM

LessOutragePlz wrote: »

Yeah I don't understand the outdoor maskers at all myself either.

I always enjoy the sight of the odd car-driving mask-wearer.

Gives me a laugh.

08-04-2021 08:07AM

Been out running a few times where people who are on the far side of the road that have passed me have put there hand over there mouth. This is the sh!t we are living with. People like this need a kick up the back side

Boggles · 08-04-2021 08:17AM

facehugger99 wrote: »

I always enjoy the sight of the odd car-driving mask-wearer.

Gives me a laugh.

Probably on there way to pick up a vulnerable person or they just dropped one off.

I can see how some would find that funny all right.

VonLuck · 08-04-2021 08:20AM

Russman wrote: »

Do you seriously think anyone wearing their mask in their car isn’t on their way to/from a shop or somewhere they need to wear one ?
You don’t think someone could leave a shop and simply not bother to take the mask off or bin it til they get home ? Personally I don’t ever wear one on the way to say, a shop, but almost always leave it on when driving home purely because I just couldn’t be ar$ed taking it off.

I wear one on the way to and from the shop out of pure convenience. Don't want the bother of getting it out of my pocket where it's wedged in and don't want the hassle of juggling my shopping bags just to take it off afterwards.

pjohnson · 08-04-2021 08:54AM

VonLuck wrote: »

I wear one on the way to and from the shop out of pure convenience. Don't want the bother of getting it out of my pocket where it's wedged in and don't want the hassle of juggling my shopping bags just to take it off afterwards.

I think most understand how that can happen. I'm not gunna go to the hassle of putting down my shopping to take off a mask only to have to put down my shopping to put a mask back on to go into the chemist ffs :pac:

BUT some still think wearing a mask is dangerous and causes oxegen deprivation soooo yeah some still haven't learned that masks arent a major issue for the vast majority, who simply get on with things rather than whinge.

OwenM · 08-04-2021 08:56AM

dublinbando wrote: »

Wait so can you actually get covid from briefly walking past somebody outdoors?

About the same odds as winning the euromillions would be my guess but you'd need to be accompanied by both parents and there has to be an R in the month.

SnuggyBear · 08-04-2021 09:03AM

A man rushed to put on his mask yesterday walking by me in the forest while walking up on the ditch to avoid me. Its OK pal I'm not going to try kiss you.

_Kaiser_ · 08-04-2021 09:03AM

Well in my view, the notion from some that treating everyone - or yourself - like a plague carrier and hiding behind masks is a perfect normal thing now, says to me just how much damage "project fear" (as Michael McNamara called it on NT yesterday) has done to the mindset of people in this country. This is not a good thing, it's extremely worrying really.

Personally I only wear a mask if I absolutely have to and only as long as needed. Can't stand the things and I find it ridiculous when we didn't have them in the early stages last year and numbers/deaths fell through the floor regardless, but ever since the much-obsessed-about case numbers have yo-yo'd despite everyone being masked up. It tells me that they are largely ineffective, but do serve as a constant reminder of how fearful and compliant this country has become based on media scaremongering and questionable benefits.

facehugger99 · 08-04-2021 09:27AM

I'm surprised there have not been more pedestrian fatalities during Covid.

The amount of people who will jump off the footpath onto a busy road as you come up to walk past them. They are completely oblivious that the risk of being struck by a vehicle and seriously injured is many multiples higher than the chance of catching Covid and dying from passing a person on the footpath.

That unfortunately is what we are dealing with. Logic, risk analysis and good old common sense has been sacrificed to mindless hysteria.

A month of so ago, a woman (in her 20's) I was coming towards jumped into a private driveway and tripped over a paving stone absolutely hopping herself off the ground. She shrank back from me when I went to assist her.

I'd imagine these people will need to be somehow de-programmed from their mindless fear.

Parachutes · 08-04-2021 09:33AM

_Kaiser_ wrote: »

Well in my view, the notion from some that treating everyone - or yourself - like a plague carrier and hiding behind masks is a perfect normal thing now, says to me just how much damage "project fear" (as Michael McNamara called it on NT yesterday) has done to the mindset of people in this country. This is not a good thing, it's extremely worrying really.

Personally I only wear a mask if I absolutely have to and only as long as needed. Can't stand the things and I find it ridiculous when we didn't have them in the early stages last year and numbers/deaths fell through the floor regardless, but ever since the much-obsessed-about case numbers have yo-yo'd despite everyone being masked up. It tells me that they are largely ineffective, but do serve as a constant reminder of how fearful and compliant this country has become based on media scaremongering and questionable benefits.

There’s no hospitals at capacity, no funeral homes overflowing with bodies, no shortage of ambulances. The mask is the only visual reminder of a pandemic happening to most people and that’s the only function it serves.

Take away the mask and media fear porn and most people wouldn’t even realise there’s a pandemic on.

Sharpyshoot · 08-04-2021 09:36AM

Whatsisname wrote: »

I’ve seen a few people go for runs in a mask. Each to their own but that’s mad to me.

It’s the people who are driving around in their own cars on their own are a bit mad also.

VonLuck · 08-04-2021 09:37AM

Parachutes wrote: »

There’s no hospitals at capacity, no funeral homes overflowing with bodies, no shortage of ambulances.

What a shame. If only hospitals were at capacity, funeral homes were overflowing and there was a shortage of ambulances it would make all these measures worthwhile :rolleyes:

Parachutes · 08-04-2021 09:38AM

VonLuck wrote: »

What a shame. If only hospitals were at capacity, funeral homes were overflowing and there was a shortage of ambulances it would make all these measures worthwhile :rolleyes:

You could open up tomorrow and it wouldn’t happen either.

Captain_Crash · 08-04-2021 09:38AM

Parachutes wrote: »

The mask is the only visual reminder of a pandemic happening to most people and that’s the only function it serves.

This is why I think masks will be dropped like a hot snot by the public at the first avail opportunity, they’re the only visual reminder of this and for many it’s a sad reminder!

CalamariFritti · 08-04-2021 09:41AM

Go and tell that to the people on the masks thread. You gonna have a great time over there. :pac:

Sharpyshoot · 08-04-2021 09:43AM

Doctor Jimbob wrote: »

I do that sometimes. It's usually because I put it on when leaving the house for convenience rather than an expectation of covid jumping out from behind the steering wheel though.

You believe COVID comes in the air vents that’s why you have recirculating air option on and car fogging up. Did that suv you bought last year not have air con?

SnuggyBear · 08-04-2021 09:45AM

CalamariFritti wrote: »

Go and tell that to the people on the masks thread. You gonna have a great time over there. :pac:

That's just a collection of lunatics. Most people will ditch them ASAP.

gozunda · 08-04-2021 09:51AM

_Kaiser_ wrote: »

Well in my view, the notion from some that treating everyone - or yourself - like a plague carrier and hiding behind masks is a perfect normal thing now, says to me just how much damage "project fear" (as Michael McNamara called it on NT yesterday) has done to the mindset of people in this country. This is not a good thing, it's extremely worrying really.

Personally I only wear a mask if I absolutely have to and only as long as needed. Can't stand the things and I find it ridiculous when we didn't have them in the early stages last year and numbers/deaths fell through the floor regardless, but ever since the much-obsessed-about case numbers have yo-yo'd despite everyone being masked up. It tells me that they are largely ineffective, but do serve as a constant reminder of how fearful and compliant this country has become based on media scaremongering and questionable benefits.

So you would consider the Spanish for example who have to wear a mask outdoors as having been subject to the Irish spreading "project fear"?

Total ballcocks.

08-04-2021 09:51AM

Sharpyshoot wrote: »

It’s the people who are driving around in their own cars on their own are a bit mad also.

Driving a short distance between two shops for example, some may just not want the hassle of having to remove an put the thing back on or have the double take on the way from the car to the shop when you realise that f*cking mask is on the passenger seat.

Also, have a work colleague who's wife is a Public health nurse, and they always planned to arrive at patients homes with their PPE already on

Its much easier to judge and ridicule without knowing the individual circumstances however.

Russman · 08-04-2021 09:55AM

SnuggyBear wrote: »

That's just a collection of lunatics. Most people will ditch them ASAP.

In fairness, the restrictions thread can hardly point any fingers at the masks thread

:D

Sharpyshoot · 08-04-2021 10:00AM

Deleted User wrote: »

Driving a short distance between two shops for example, some may just not want the hassle of having to remove an put the thing back on or have the double take on the way from the car to the shop when you realise that f*cking mask is on the passenger seat.

Also, have a work colleague who's wife is a Public health nurse, and they always planned to arrive at patients homes with their PPE already on

Its much easier to judge and ridicule without knowing the individual circumstances however.

The people who I am referring to are casual joes not your frontline worker who is saving the public.

Boggles · 08-04-2021 10:15AM

SnuggyBear wrote: »

Going in alongside your walk around town looking at all the construction taking place

Sorry, are you saying you have seen no construction taking place?

Really? You live up a mountain or something?

SnuggyBear · 08-04-2021 10:16AM

Boggles wrote: »

Sorry, are you saying you have seen no construction taking place?

Really? You live up a mountain or something?

More so its unbelievable that you went for a walk

FlubberJones · 08-04-2021 10:18AM

Boggles wrote: »

Sorry, are you saying you have seen no construction taking place?

Really? You live up a mountain or something?

I live near the MASSIVE construction going on in Cherrywood, not a thing going on here... But, pleased to see that there are signs that this is changing, guys in high viz walking around, I would imagine starting to prepare for some ramp up next week

08-04-2021 10:20AM

Parachutes wrote: »

There’s no hospitals at capacity, no funeral homes overflowing with bodies, no shortage of ambulances. The mask is the only visual reminder of a pandemic happening to most people and that’s the only function it serves.

Take away the mask and media fear porn and most people wouldn’t even realise there’s a pandemic on.

That actually happened in England a few months ago: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9165019/We-dont-watch-news-Lockdown-flouting-revellers-claim-ignorance-global-pandemic.html

"Lockdown-flouting revellers told police they had no idea there was a pandemic on because 'we don't watch the news' when their party was busted on Saturday night."

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