Most Comical/Hysterical COVID News Stories of the past few years

Sure, show us the posts where you talk about this pre covid.

Absolutely zero connection between food waste in restaurants before or during covid, and the issues you talk about.

Struggling to get by is not the same as qualifying in "hunger kills more than COVID."

And if you're talking in general about hunger killing people, the absolute vast majority is in third world countries, and to pretend otherwise is absolutely desperate stuff. You are showing your 'privilege' there. When you talked about hunger killing more than COVID you weren't referencing any African victims there no? It was obvious what you were referencing and now you are desperately backtracking.

All the times you were put out by the €9 meal you were out for soft drinks? That's the only time it bothered you? And you think that's a fair representation of the people who were put out by the rule, or indeed all the times you were out? Not a chance.

You couldn't have skipped the meal at home knowing you were going out somewhere you had to purchase food?

Pull the other one.

Walking into Easons when shops opened and a big yellow tape around the childrens books area .You could browse all you liked for adult books but had to ask for a staff member to get you a childrens or young adults book . I still smile at the ridiculousness of it .

Go to Dunnes and the mens trousers were behind a tape , I asked a staff member to get me a pair of trousers for my husband such a size and colour . He asked me was is an essential item and we both laughed when I said yes his arse is coming out of the the pair he has .

I wish I had your confidence that a lot was learned. As far as I could see we learned nothing after the first summer and just implemented the exact same stuff the second summer. I suspect if we ever have another pandemic we will go with the exact same stuff again, including the beach dancing guards.

I don’t think so. A lot of our restrictions could not work with Omicron as it’s too infectious. Only a level five would have worked on that and it was not dangerous enough after so many were vaccinated.

If Omicron was more severe we would have gone straight back to all the old restrictions.

Some people obviously still can't acknowledge that a good bit of it was outright crazy. Since that would be admitting that they were caught up in the craziness themselves. So it must still be defended and sense found where none was no matter what. Let it go lads & lassies, its ok now, we can laugh about these crazy things together.

There certainly were.

I remember a friend of mine who was absolutely against the vaccine and who was sailing very close to the wind on the whole 5G Bill Gates stuff. We spoke on the phone one day and he was like 'I'm never getting that suff no matter what' and I told him I got my second shot only yesterday. So he asked me to get a fridge magnet and hold it against my arm where I got vaccinated 'cos he 'heard somewhere' that the nanoparticles would make the magnet stick.

Sadly those people didnt even realise they didnt do 'the cause' any favour. All the media had to do was focus on that loony stuff and any covid critic was discredited immediately.

This

And this, don't go together, the first post is absolutely loopy, the second then complains about being seen as absolutely loopy, you have to be able to see this, that's how everyone else does.

Well then you could've just read right over it.

Anyway. I don't know enough about Bill Gates to have an opinion one way or the other. I don't believe he wants to control and chip us all etc but I don't know is he all benevolent and altruistic either. Thats not me questioning his altruism. I actually don't know..

But thats neither here nor there. I would agree with @foxsake that I'm also generally quite uncomfortable with very very rich people using their fiscal power and influence to further certain policies and worldviews on the wider population. In Bills case I may well do him injustice and he may well try to do good with the money he earned. I'll give hime the benefit of the doubt tbh, he seems a good guy.

Just not entirely comfortable on principal. It's just too much power and influence in one mans hand. For every good guy there are typically three that aren't so good.

Ye Donald Trump would be the prime example why I have a natural scepticism towards the ultra rich people. On top of Donald being who he is of course. Now Bill is not Donald not even remotely or actually not at all. But I still harbour a natural scepticism towards the ultra rich cos I find it hard to believe you can get that rich AND be a good guy. It usually doesn't work that way. Typically somewhere along the way lines have to be crossed. But like I said I didnt look into Bill Gates and I do believe he deserves the benefit of the doubt.

Our views are probably not too far off tbh.

P.S. Having said that under Donald Trump we weren't on the brink of WW3 so there's that too.

Not sure if already mentioned, but I remember someone showing me videos on their phone of people walking down the street in China, and just collapsing dead.

Even then I laughed and said it was balls, but many believed it.

Did mainstream media like rte and bbc actually show them?

I assumed they were only ever on social media

Hadn't clicked into this thread in a couple of days.Wherever you stood on Covid restrictions it was a good chance to look back at some of the more ridiculous stuff that went on.

All too predictably it's been hijacked and the fun sucked out of it.

While it's been fun in a way and a bit nostalgic to see some of the covid thanks wh0res usernames again, the thread is dead.

Shame really

I raise your Clare Byrne with someone-just-killed-my-puppy-face George Lee.

Maybe the funny side thing won't happen for a long time. Or ever. The likes of Clare and George will never admit to any over-the-top-ness. It's their professional reputation they have to think about. And like I said earlier a lot of people here were too involved to take a step back.

Same goes for me tbh. If anything I feel now even more strongly about us having lost our collective marbles then I did one or two years ago.

And as for the 'other side', the 5G-they-want-to-chip-us-possibly-off-us crowd. Well I thought they were idiots back then too.