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

jimmybobbyschweiz

Not just in Ireland, to make this thread a bit broader. Here are a couple of examples that is quite funny to look out now, firmly being in the Hysterical category.

https://www.thejournal.ie/ronan-glynn-gatherings-5143048-Jul2020/

ACTING CHIEF MEDICAL officer Dr Ronan Glynn has said that images shared on social media of large crowds outside drinking at the weekend have made him “very concerned”.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/explainers-55017034

Can you keep the noise down?

Amid the excitement of reunions, it's perfectly normal for voices to be raised.

Add a little alcohol, and maybe have a TV or music on as well, and things can get even noisier.

But if someone is infected, the louder they speak, the more virus they release.

A lot of research shows that when voices are projected, people emit more tiny droplets of the kind that can carry the coronavirus.

So the advice is to avoid singing and dancing. At the very least, try keep those activities quiet or consider wearing masks.

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Dslatt

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120119222#Comment_120119222

See here's the thing about not living on the brink of WW3 and Trump starting no wars that bugs me. Literally 5 minutes before the pandemic gripped the world Trump was after blowing up one of the main Iranian generals and the news was very much leaning on we are on the brink of the US and Iran going to war but then covid happened and people just forgot about it.

xxxxxxl

https://www.newsflare.com/video/347885/covid-19-irish-police-and-army-escort-ppe-from-dublin-airport-at-night

Found a video of the convoy I was talking about.

HBC08

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120128762#Comment_120128762

Almost,they rented a load of cars (there was no normal car hire going in at the time)

I saw loads of them about with Garda signs stuck onto them

iamwhoiam

I still laugh at myself going out after the postman was gone and wiping down the letter box and doorbell !!! It was a futile excercise as no one was actually going to use the letter box !!

HBC08

I used to bring the shopping out to my elderly parents.Id spray it all down,make them leave it for 24 hours and then put it away.The had to wash the fruit after me spraying it.

The newspapers were sprayed and the auld fella was complaining as the ink would run.

Day one of the first lockdown I went for a walk and put my hand on a railing along the river near me.I turned on my heel and headed straight home to disinfect the hand!

The first fri night of the lockdown I went to supervalu to buy two things,a litre bottle of hand sanitiser and a bottle of whiskey,they were nearly the same price.The hand sanitiser was limited to one per person.

BlackEdelweiss

An anti vaxer collegue came out with this klinker one day - "Do you know that every single rat they tested the vaccine on died!"

Otherwise a nice lady but I switched off when she started talking about covid and vaccines.

CalamariFritti

For the record I'm not an anti-vaxer but just out of curiosity do you actually know whether this is wrong or not or are you just assuming? Me personally I wouldn't have a clue.

Former Former Former

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121031212#Comment_121031212

It is absolute bollocks.

The rat studies showed nothing of any concern, but they all get killed at the end of the study to examine their innards and because they can't be used for any other studies. So maybe that got twisted by the usual anti vax cnuts.

Silentcorner

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121031348#Comment_121031348

You really love those old vaccines don't you...fair play to you!!

Former Former Former

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121031435#Comment_121031435

I love facts and dislike malicious misinformation.

Elmer Blooker

Just the other day on a beach in the sunny south east I overheard a mother scold a toddler for not putting their hand over their mouth when coughing!

That’s right, a toddler on a beach! The loonies haven’t gone away you know.

Risteard81

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121032940#Comment_121032940

When they tried to force this horseshit of sneezing into elbows instead of hands I just started sneezing into the free air. I will not be dictated to how to sneeze or anything else.

CalamariFritti

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121032940#Comment_121032940

Now I don't know about you but when I grew up I was told the same and that had nothing to do with covid (obviously) but just with manners.

Elmer Blooker

Telling a child to put their hand over their mouth on a beach is neurosis plain and simple, if the parent is that concerned about a bit of coughing the child should be kept at home on not on the beach! You just don’t get it.

Dohnjoe

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121035380#Comment_121035380

She's teaching the kid a good habit, nothing wrong with it.

CalamariFritti

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121035380#Comment_121035380

Maybe my parents were posh or something (no, they weren't) but when I grew up sneezing coughing yawning was to be covered and not doing it was considered to be bad manners. Not necessarily for health hygiene reasons alone but also 'because'. Regardless where it was beach, at home or restaurant didnt matter.

I think your neurosis detector went into overdrive there. It could simply be the above. At least from my POV its not unheard of.

pjohnson

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121035663#Comment_121035663

Next they'll be complaining about washing hands before eating or after going toilet.

Former Former Former

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121031864#Comment_121031864

I was skeptical that a new technology could produce vaccines that were safe enough, effective enough, and could be produced in such vast quantities in such a short space of time to make a massive change to the course of the pandemic.

I was delighted to be proved so emphatically wrong. An absolute triumph of science and medicine.

Sconsey

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121033293#Comment_121033293

Massive combination of ignorance and lack of empathy evident in this post.

Dohnjoe

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121040178#Comment_121040178

They weren't mandatory. There were a lot of incentives to get them, it was a pandemic, also because everyone knew a core of anti-vaxxers would be against them from the start, which is precisely what happened. Later on ICU's contained a majority of unvaccinated despite them only making up a tiny part of the population. I can't imagine losing someone unnecessarily to anti-vax quackery, but sadly that's what happened in cases.

Risteard81

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121040227#Comment_121040227

"Incentives" = unlawful coercion.

Dohnjoe

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121040609#Comment_121040609

There's the real hysteria

My friends, family, co-workers, every one I know absolutely sick to the teeth of the anti-maskers, anti-vaxxers and other anti-science alarmists losing their minds over some free vaccines and fantasizing that they are being oppressed by basic healthcare guidelines during a pandemic

Risteard81

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121040824#Comment_121040824

Punishing people for not being injected is oppressive, whatever way you try to paint it. It's also unlawful. Calling them guidelines when they had the force of (unlawful) "laws" is also offensive.

ceadaoin.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121040824#Comment_121040824

A lot of my friends and family are angry at being coerced into receiving vaccines that at best didn't live up to what was promised, and at worse led to some pretty significant side effects for some of them. Most are saying they won't be getting any more because they don't see the point. Why take on the side effects and still end up with COVID anyway?

Locking people out of society unless they get a new, never used in humans, medical product isnt part of "basic healthcare guidelines during a pandemic" at all.

Former Former Former

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121040609#Comment_121040609

Sometimes threads wander off topic, thank you for topping up the hysteria levels.

Forced injections? Nope.

Job losses? Nope.

Gaol time? What the hell?

You couldn't go to the pub and you couldn't get on a plane. That was it. And rightly so. You had your right not to be vaccinated and others had the right to be protected from you.

Dohnjoe

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121040880#Comment_121040880

A lot of my friends and family are angry at being coerced into receiving vaccines

I very much doubt that.

We weren't "promised" anything either, bizarre view. Vaccines were developed by multiple companies, early trials showed good results, the virus mutated, it still performed. Got billions of safe doses out to billions of people during a pandemic.

The most comical, hysterical part are the anti-science, anti-authority types in Ireland still determined to paint themselves as victims of "oppression" over a free vaccine which saved a truckload of lives. There must be dozens of them, dozens!

odyssey06

All cause mortality in UK consistently lower for vaccinated versus unvaccinated ... and still there is hysterical "just asking questions" about vaccines.

The figures are age adjusted

https://twitter.com/PaulMainwood/status/1696551713551864052

fun loving criminal

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121032940#Comment_121032940

Would you get upset at toilet training a toddler as well?

growleaves

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121040824#Comment_121040824

You are on almost every forum on this site claiming that your family, friends and co-workers all agree with you about x, y, z.

You are a walking sampling bias as far as I'm concerned.

Dohnjoe

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121044908#Comment_121044908

Less than 5% of Irish adults chose to be unvaccinated. Yet come to a thread like this and I can already identify half of it as known Boards anti-vaxxers or vaccine contrarians. Not exactly a representative cross-section of society. But that's the nature of social media. Online, people are less likely to express neutral opinion than someone with a more extreme opinion.

Back on topic, the most hysterical people I came across during this whole pandemic were those who were against vaccines, masks, etc. Lunatic views.