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All Covid-19 measures are permanent, don't be a boiling frog!

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,190 ✭✭✭✭Dohnjoe



    Conspiracy theorists everywhere must be rejoicing that measures are being removed, that we aren't living in some nightmare 1984 tyrannical state, that the vaccines aren't killing everyone, that there's no forced labour camps and microchips..

    I can't imagine their happiness and relief ;)



  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    I'm waiting for Gortanna or CQD to say we can't judge until they stick a needle in the Earth's core to trigger the reset...



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,013 ✭✭✭✭The Nal


    *ring ring*

    "Hello?"

    "Hello Mum/Dad/Friend? Its me, I'm so sorry about how I've been for the last couple of years. Ill ignore idiots on social media in the future".



  • Subscribers Posts: 41,830 ✭✭✭✭sydthebeat


    Hahaha hahaha hahashake......



  • Registered Users Posts: 545 ✭✭✭Crocodile Booze


    So...........



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,190 ✭✭✭✭Dohnjoe




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,644 ✭✭✭✭Timberrrrrrrr


    I was kinda enjoying the restrictions

    Masks: No fùckwits hacking phlegm up everywhere or coughing guts up spreading germs.

    Social distancing: same as above but behind you in a queue, no one sitting next to you on a train meaning no unwanted conversation with nosy bastards.

    WFH: Most of the annoying people (who did very little anyway) hopped at the chance to WFH, Work was much more pleasant and got much more done in less time.

    Table service in pubs: Nice to get a beer bought to the table meaning no standing at the bar for ages while some drunken gobshìte tries to strike up a conversation about duck billed platypus mating rituals.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,323 ✭✭✭✭King Mob


    Yea very doubtful we'll hear from them on this thread again.

    Maybe one more post warning us that the restrictions could come back and they are still right. But there will be no attempt to explain current events ot address any if the hanging questions.


    I suspect @Gortanna will attempt to point out that masks will still be permanent but will still refuse to actually explain why this will be or why it's such an issue for him.


    Conspiracy theorists have been utterly dishonest from the start of this thread no reason to think they would suddenly start being honest at the end.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,353 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    @King Mob

    In the immortal words of Dave Grohl....

    “Then I'm done, done, on to the next one

    Done, done and I'm on to the next one

    Done, done and I'm on to the next one

    Done, done and I'm on to the next one

    Done, done and I'm on to the next one

    Done, done and I'm on to the next one

    Done, done and I'm on to the next one

    Done, I'm done and I'm on to the next”...



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,355 ✭✭✭✭Larbre34


    Must be a lot of icy cold frogs around here tonight. Too frozen even to talk.

    If ye do decide to have children (God help us), please think twice before forcing your stupidity on them. Give them some hope of breaking the cycle of fools.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,767 ✭✭✭Pinch Flat


    Bad day to be a tin foil hatter. The silence is deafening.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,810 ✭✭✭✭Loafing Oaf


    Just like

    Although his yarn is actually the epitome of plausibility next to Gortanna's and the other...suspects...



  • Registered Users Posts: 411 ✭✭brianhere


    On a personal level, I think its fantastic that I might be able to visit a restaurant, pub, cinema, or hotel even in the near future after what seems like absolutely ages. But its amazing what 'freedom' looks like to Irish people now, look what they have kept back:

    "A number of public health regulations will remain in place until they are reviewed on 28 February - this includes the wearing of masks in certain settings as follows:

    Public transport, taxis and at stations/airports/ports

    Retail premises (including shopping centres, libraries, cinemas, theatres, museums, post offices, banks)

    Public offices and premises providing specified services and businesses (including salons, hairdressers, travel agents, laundries, dry cleaners, bookmakers)

    Customer facing roles in premises where food and beverages are sold for consumption on the premises

    Schools and childcare

    Protective measures in schools and early learning and care facilities - such as the wearing of masks - will remain in place until at least 28 February when public health regulations will be reviewed.

    Minister for Children, Roderic O'Gorman, said the current position is that early learning and childcare services should continue to operate under the sectoral guidance, with play-pods remaining a key feature.

    "This approach is in line with schools and is in effect until 28 February."

    ...

    The Digital Covid Cert and Passenger Locator Form will remain in place for the time-being.

    From 1 February, for travel purposes, the Digital Covid Cert based on primary vaccination only will expire after 270 days (nine months).

    An updated DCC can be obtained for those who have received a booster dose and can be accessed through the self service HSE portal."

    ( https://www.rte.ie/news/coronavirus/2022/0121/1275151-covid-ireland-latest/ )


    If they aren't abolished now, the vaccine passport, which includes enormous restrictions on foreign travel, and masks, then when will these ever go?

    http://www.orwellianireland.com



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,487 ✭✭✭Fighting Tao




  • Registered Users Posts: 411 ✭✭brianhere


    If you don't wish to restrict your breathing, and hold onto toxins that your lungs were trying to expel, by wearing a mask, then you can go virtually nowhere in Ireland, by law, according to the above list. Is that not a restriction on your freedom? As is the bar on foreign travel which is in practice still there because the vaccine passport is there.

    http://www.orwellianireland.com



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,487 ✭✭✭Fighting Tao


    Masks do not restrict breathing. That was debunked almost 2 years ago. You can’t enter many countries without vaccines for various diseases. It really is not a restriction. I’ve many vaccines due to travel. Travel is a choice, you don’t have to travel. It’s not a necessity. Breathing is a necessity and pd what you say about masks is bollix.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,767 ✭✭✭Pinch Flat


    Ah stop. You'll be like one of those Japanese fellas found on a Pacific island 30 years after the war ended

    Post edited by Pinch Flat on


  • Registered Users Posts: 521 ✭✭✭DontHitTheDitch


    This time six months it will be 'they want you to stop wearing masks so they can resume poisoning you with chemtrails'.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,767 ✭✭✭Pinch Flat


    Ah yeah I'm looking forward to getting back to the bread and butter tin foil hat stuff - chemtrails, flat earth, fake moon landings, battery operated birds and 911. All the crackpot shyte we got to love before covid.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,507 ✭✭✭✭kowloon




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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,767 ✭✭✭Pinch Flat




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,793 ✭✭✭Bogwoppit


    So @brianhere will you finally admit you were wrong?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,810 ✭✭✭✭Loafing Oaf


    If they aren't abolished now, masks, then when will these ever go?

    From your own post

    A number of public health regulations will remain in place until they are reviewed on 28 February

    So I suppose you can keep making the 'argument' that the masks are permanent until then? Would that be enough to make us 'boiling frogs'? Strangulated ones maybe...



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 640 ✭✭✭rtron


    Yep, the government have kept the right to reimpose restrictions if required until the end of February I think. Good to see them lifted. I always thought Masks would be kept for some time though. The vaccine pastport gone locally is surprise.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,487 ✭✭✭Fighting Tao


    You’d probably be giving out if the government spent a number of weeks writing laws, getting them reviewed by the attorney general, debating, voting, and getting the president to sign a law to change the existing one, all for a couple of weeks. It’s easier, cheaper and time better spent by letting the existing law expire at the end of February.



  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Firstly, provide proof to back this.... Go on, some actual proof. Secondly you mentioned that you will finally be able to go to cinemas and restaurants. I've been to restaurants and cinemas multiple times in last few months. Restaurants even allowed people to dine outside if unvaccinated.


    In relation to travel, countries have had vaccine restrictions for decades. Equally restrictions such as visa requirements etc have applied.

    It's almost as if every topic from Tuam to the great reset to permanent restrictions are ill informed nonsense that you wrap up as Kindle books for the gullible. 😂



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,066 ✭✭✭Notmything


    Frantically googling for a country that hasn't lifted any restrictions so they can point and go "aha see <insert country> still have restrictions in place" so clearly they are still permanent even if no where near Ireland.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,066 ✭✭✭Notmything


    Even before masks you could be denied entry to a premises.

    Even before vaccine certificates you could be denied entry to a foreign country. So explain to me what new restrictions have been imposed.



  • Registered Users Posts: 11,064 ✭✭✭✭martingriff


    Vaccine passport were here long before Covid and will be here long after. As for mask an explanation I saw was when you decide to go to a pub, club, concert etc you go knowing however people who maybe not be able to be vaccinated or in risk groups have to go to school public transport work if they are to live so that is why they are staying for now. The only place they may stay is in GP or clinical settings



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 914 ✭✭✭buzzerxx


    In stock now at all good retail stores.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,323 ✭✭✭✭King Mob


    Buzzer, do you have any comment or reaction to the fact that your conspiracy theories have just failed completely?


    Why ate you posting this stupid meme you're stealing from someone's Twitter? What do you hope to accomplish with it?

    It only serves to make you look pathetically desperate.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,323 ✭✭✭✭King Mob


    What you are claiming about masks is complete nonsense and lies.

    They don't restrict breathing and "holding onto toxins" is gibberish.


    You and your buddies have had 350 pages and two years to explain your theory and tell us why masks are going to be permanent. You have never been able to do that. You can't now.

    And as I predicted you are desperately trying to cling to the idea of masks so you don't have to acknowledge or think about any of the things you got wrong.


    Pathetic.



  • Registered Users Posts: 547 ✭✭✭shillyshilly


    vaccine passport doesn't put huge restrictions on travel, you can enter any country with a test or proof of covid recovery.. no vaccine needed

    are there additional measures thereafter when you enter, yes, in some countries there are, but again, it's to supress a pandemic

    some countries have even stopped looking

    like @Gortanna , you are wrong



  • Registered Users Posts: 547 ✭✭✭shillyshilly


    matches the one on the back of your pants... "Believers only, enter here"



  • Subscribers Posts: 41,830 ✭✭✭✭sydthebeat


    Ah good man buzz buzz...

    Thanks for posting to confirm you are the fool that you have made yourself out to be.

    All you CTers who posted in here look so stupid today



  • Registered Users Posts: 1,556 ✭✭✭Finty Lemon


    Ribbit, ribbit, ribbit.... quiet here today



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,190 ✭✭✭✭Dohnjoe



    They'll be back, with a new twist. The virus could spike, a new variant could cause some measures to temporarily return, they'll always find an angle. Or just deflect onto something entirely new.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,013 ✭✭✭✭The Nal


    In genuinely sad news, Im seeing a lot of conspiraloons coming out with "we won".

    Imagine being that much of a cretin.



  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Reminded of how the current affairs forum lost a load of posters when Donald Trump lost.... Money on a load of posters disappearing and new ones surfacing that haven't got the credibility gap yet.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,487 ✭✭✭Fighting Tao


    Seeing how many of them died for the cause so far during the pandemic, I’m sure they’re in for the Darwin Award. I didn’t hear the winner announcement but then again I’m sure conspiracy theorists have some secret inside knowledge about the competition.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,190 ✭✭✭✭Dohnjoe



    Oh and I would expect a big spike in cases as everyone takes this as carte blanche to go nuts. Tonight the pubs are going to be absolutely jammed



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,767 ✭✭✭Pinch Flat


    Couple of the conspiracyloons been posting online comments saying they were forced to reopen due to pending legal action. Same comments in Irish and Uk social media channels, and chances are it orignated from a few bible bashing gun toting right wing Us loons. Anyone in the tin foil hat community care to shed some light? Even to just give us a chuckle?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,323 ✭✭✭✭King Mob


    Oh, was that all they needed to do? Threaten legal action and the whole global conspiracy backs down?

    Shoulda tried that a year ago lads.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,767 ✭✭✭Pinch Flat


    M'lud I present my esteemed expert witness. Degrees in immunology and virology from the university of Facebook,following 2 years of research via memes and WhatsApp groups.



  • Registered Users Posts: 196 ✭✭SamStonesArm


    Yeah I might leave the pub off tonight , it's gonna be mental. Hope it calms down soon , hates waiting ages for a pint.



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  • Registered Users Posts: 757 ✭✭✭generic_throwaway


    Another failed prediction from the fantasy conspiracy community.

    Do they ever tire of being proven wrong?



  • Registered Users Posts: 757 ✭✭✭generic_throwaway


    Where did this absolute bullcrap about toxins in your breath come from? Amazing we haven't been killing ourselves in our buildings these past few millenia if normal breathing is so toxic. Amazing.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,644 ✭✭✭✭Timberrrrrrrr


    But they're not wrong! In thier heads they can see the secret playbook being played out and us mere mortals are being blindly led along to our doom!

    They have not spent hours a day on Facebook and twitter for nothing you know, hour after hour after hour watching youtube videos with sinister music and disguised voices have taught then that our reality and the world around us is being run by a secret cabal of people.

    Now the fact they all think its different groups kinda gets ignored but I'm telling ya now that as soon as the communists, the satanists, George Soros, Bill Gates, The W.E.F, The Lizard people and Alan from #32 down the road get together we are all fùcked!

    We will be made to wear masks for life! These masks are to ensure that the facial recognition cameras won't work anymore so they will bring in the "heartbeat" cameras.

    Then when we are all somehow reduced to timid sheep they will send the boost signal out through the 5G network, this will activate your microchip rendering you fully magnetic, non ferrous objects from around the world will fly towards you at astonishing rates and every one of us will be crushed to death under the weight of coins and non stick saucepans.

    Then the "elite" can start the world over again as a eutopia for themselves and thier collection of slaves.


    You heard it here 1st!!





  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Clearly computers have been seized and that's why there's an absence of @[Deleted User] and @Gortanna, not due to conspiracies turning out to be a load of nonsense



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,487 ✭✭✭Fighting Tao


    Well Dee Wall was arrested yesterday. Coincidence or conspiracy?



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