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Anyone Else Miss the Pandemic?

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,442 ✭✭✭bad2thebone


    I really miss vilifying the unvaccinated and blaming them for everything. I was right behind the media, celebs and political classes in making the unvaccinated feel guilty and to blame for prolonged lockdowns etc I felt really good about myself and my social media posts are still there to show how much of a good citizen I was.

    I adored the jerusalema dance routines, and watched our very own heroes over and over dancing around the headlands, streets,beaches and parks. I used to get goosebumps watching it. The way they tapped their feet, ohhhh it really looked as if they should be on a music video. I'm sure there's a few already who got offers of being in pop videos etc from scouts.

    And how much I love to see people masked up while alone driving their car's,every time I seen them I felt safe and knew that they were fine citizens.

    Hopefully we'll continue to drive our cars alone wearing masks.

    Look at him, he's just gotten out of his car and all masked up. Clean cut, nice jeans, a shirt and lovely shoe's, short back and sides and has mask on. He even shaved off his beard in order for the mask to be as safe as possible. He's safe from himself, and should be thanked for his powerful virtu signaling. And his uniform of obedience, Polo Ralph Lauren shirt, nice Tommy Hilfiger jeans, jock shoe's, and a mask.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,001 ✭✭✭Ray Palmer




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 461 ✭✭HerrKapitan


    Don't worry you won't have to wait too long. On two seperate occasions in a week Biden has stressed that there IS going to be another pandemic.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,045 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    No. Fcuk all of it to hell.

    I certainly don't miss misanthropes spouting how much they are 'enjoying' their pandemic. Fcuk right off and live in a cave and barricade yourselves in and leave the rest of us do what we want.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,912 ✭✭✭megaten


    It's not actually over but no I don't.

    The first year was alright bar the first few weeks and to a degree peaceful but year 2 in particular was super rough and stressful I found. The first Christmas in particular where you were expected to be simultaneously super sociable and also extremely careful was awful.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,442 ✭✭✭bad2thebone


    I'm not one bit funny Ray. I assure you of that.

    What makes you think I'm funny.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,476 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    It's not 'judgement', it's common sense. Most people leave their misanthropy behind them when they leave their teens as part of 'growing up'.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,001 ✭✭✭Ray Palmer




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,442 ✭✭✭bad2thebone


    Man, there's nothing more holy and virtuous than being obedient and not questioning anything.

    There was something spiritual about the lockdowns, and every step of the way we were lead by our overlords. I had no problem turning on anyone who didn't obey, and on social media I gave them hell. Calling them out day and night.

    It finally gave me meaning in my life, I felt responsibility's beyond my wildest dreams.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,045 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore




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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,476 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    It gave society a united front, similar to one in wartime, but to say it actually gave your life some kind of meaning is a little bit bizarre.

    If you can get a spiritual feeling from pandemic related lockdowns, then I think there might be something else less severe you could probably also extrapolate a bit of meaning from.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,218 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    Thread has now become stupid.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 414 ✭✭dorothylives


    Don't worry, Government has signed mandatory mask wearing back into law again, just in case. Ironic really, only a few months ago people were calling for the apartheid system where only those with booster passports would be allowed to access hospitality, if you didn't get a booster you were a monstrous granny killing leper who should be shunned and chastised. Since then we've had well over 40,000 mostly unvaccinated people arrive and that's grand, no need for them to have vaccines, it's all good. Now there's a sharp rise in the numbers in the counties where the highest numbers of those people live, but shure it's all grand. We'll just go back to wearing masks again. I suppose RTE will be beating the drum for this, the constant Covid ads meant they made a profit for the first time in years, never mind that the money came out of the HSE budget.

    NO, I don't miss the pandemic. I was disgusted at how easily people gave up their civil liberties and look where it's gotten us, the government don't give a crap anymore, they do as they please and Paddy and Mary bend over and grab their ankles and just pray they get some lube before they get shafted. It was a pointless disgrace. All the pigs that did best from the trough are all either in or on their way to obscenely paid jobs in the private sector. Ironically, our deputy CMO is now employed by the same company that was being considered for secret surveilance of the public during the pandemic. So if you used your bank card to pay for anything outside of your allotted 5 kilometers they'd know about it and fine you. Only the non entity Donnelly is still in the job and until he pops up you forget the guy even exists.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,302 ✭✭✭Allinall


    The government haven't signed anything back into law again.

    The rest of your post is just incoherent ranting.

    Long COVID, perhaps?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 414 ✭✭dorothylives


    Try reading a paper today. My post makes perfect sense, if you choose to ignore that, well..I really don't care.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,302 ✭✭✭Allinall


    Any link to say the government have signed mandatory mask wearing back into law?

    There should be a reference to the statute.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 506 ✭✭✭asdfg87


    This was Dub Airport, i don't think i should have being there either.




  • Posts: 6,597 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Its not virtuous, its just sensible. No one gets a gold star - but some people get to remain alive.

    Some people don't think it was worth it - my message to them is grow up.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 506 ✭✭✭asdfg87




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 647 ✭✭✭eddie73


    The pandemic or the restrictions?



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,537 ✭✭✭✭Potential-Monke


    You keep telling yourself that, while you continue to judge people for having an opinion different to yours.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,503 ✭✭✭✭Mad_maxx


    It meant a certain number of eighty five year olds might now make it to eight seven, runaway inflation ( amongst other things ) was definitely a price worth paying



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,130 ✭✭✭sporina


    there are a lot of sad sad people on this platform



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,537 ✭✭✭✭Potential-Monke


    There are a lot of sad sad people on this planet...



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,819 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    I was feeling nostalgic about the other thread.

    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119108245#Comment_119108245



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,111 ✭✭✭✭Dempo1


    Interesting Question but perhaps the question should be what people don't miss about the pandemic.

    But I do honestly find myself wondering of late about the seemingly endless chaos, Bad news daily, problem after problem , social cohesion in melt down, constant negativity, gloom and doom since last Feb and as appalling as the Pandemic was and what people went through and the challenges everyone faced , Ireland seemed at one (despite some outlandish conspiracy theories) , we faced it would seem one, maybe too daily problems cropped up daily.

    Now, mother of God there seems to be utter chaos, cost of living, housing crisis, worsening health service , social cohesion breaking down and some utterly bewildering government decisions.

    The Pandemic was dreadful, but the two years almost seemed peaceful in comparison to what's been going on for the past 6 months.

    Post edited by Dempo1 on

    Is maith an scáthán súil charad.




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    There's always another pandemic coming and has been for the last 50 years. COVID has been massively dented to the point that it's likely to be part of the annual flu' programme. We remain in a continued state of heightened awareness due to a fair level of overtesting and reporting, we are now indifferent to any daily numbers that are not equivalent to the size of a small city.

    As to the thread question not missed at all, the pandemic is just one of those memories like a bad holiday you went on once.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,837 ✭✭✭yagan


    I don't miss the lockdowns, but I do miss the personal space. I hate people leaning in to talk to me when I can hear them perfectly. Some people really have a problem with personal space so for a few years it was great to have people being observing it.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,845 ✭✭✭✭Strumms


    I don’t miss it, why would you… but if tomorrow a new variant was announced and a lockdown was introduced I don’t think I’d blink…used to it and that lifestyle..adapt and overcome..

    Entertainment…..great TV, Netflix, PS4.. loads of unused games, unread books,

    clothes…. Bought lots online, spent about 1500 on clothes that would have cost twice that pre pandemic.

    but the positives simply dwarf in terms of the carnage, heartbreak and suffering.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,184 ✭✭✭riclad


    I miss the quiet roads, lack of traffic, lack of tourists, now its back to normal, busy streets, more noise. I think alot of people are still working from home



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