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

Am I over lockdown? Mentally, no, I'm not.

Yeah, that’s exactly my point. 99.99% of people are over it, you are the outliers here, a tiny minority. If you’re on the level here, you need counselling before you harm yourself or others.

.You might as well tell the Jews to get over the Holocaust.

i appreciate you’re an out and out troll but that’s an outrageous statement and the people who liked that post should be ashamed of themselves. Nothing could illustrate the mentality better, thank you.

I still remember December 23rd 2021 in a local bar. The government had the instigated the hilarious 8pm closure because of the new omnibus (purposeful misspelling) variant. The collective mentally deranged were desperate to cling to anything negative they could conjure up to support their 22 month dystopian nightmare.

Thankfully I escaped to Spain , Czech Republic & Sweden for 3 holidays over the late summer & autumn of 2021 for a breath of normality.

To follow your post …. It was if my memory serves me correctly the end of February 2022 that the clowns decided we no longer needed masks in shopping centres or general indoor facilities. I’m not trying to sound like a hard man but as soon as the announcement was made I never wore a mask indoors again (about 4-5 weeks before the mandate ended).

Thankfully we are coming to the 2nd anniversary of the end of probably the most intelligence insulting & government/globalisation gas lighting period of my life time.

We are now to suck up that 2 year overreaction and nobody should question it in society. We still hear murmurs of a covid enquiry but then they’re swept under the carpet again.

6 nations 2021

...few minutes later

15th of june 2021, Budapest

The dishonestly and junk science was just astounding.

Well, we can agree on that.

I can guarantee you one thing, long before 2045, someone will come up with "evidence" that the vaccines were incredibly dangerous. Just like the "evidence" that ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine and whatever else were miracle cures for Covid but obviously big pharma etc etc.

Just like the "evidence" that measles vaccines are dangerous, putting us in a situation where a disease that should have been eradicated long ago is making a comeback.

Science is very rarely on the side of the lunatic fringe. Fearmongering, anger, violence and stupidity, yes, you have the market cornered in that, I'll grant you.

In fairness, the irish government, bought off the mass compliance with the PUP and and all the nanny state measures implemented. When given the option to stay at home, put our feet up, and getting paid for it, the vast majority accepted any compromise, without thinking about the economic disaster that followed. Just as a comparison getting tested in Italy was not free, there was no pup in place, if you owned a business there was no assistance from the state, loads of shops closed down for good and the few that survived, reopened as soon as they were allowed

You visited Italy during a lull (Aug 2020), the second wave started around September, there was a lockdown over there in November which lasted until January. It was similar to over here and in many other countries.

It certainly wasn't similar to over here.

But then again, you'd know that if you bothered to travel over there.

November 2020–January 2021: A new lockdown[edit]

"On 4 November 2020, Prime Minister Conte announced a new lockdown, dividing the country into three zones depending on the severity of the pandemic, corresponding to red, orange and yellow zones. Moreover, a national curfew from 10 PM to 5 AM was implemented, as well as compulsory weekend closing for shopping malls, and online education in high schools.[103] Conte described the situation as "particularly critical", asserting that the virus was moving at a "strong and even violent" pace.[104]

• In red zones, lockdown measures were similar to the ones which were implemented from March to May 2020, such as compulsory closing for shops, restaurants and other activities, online education for schools except for kindergartens, elementary schools and sixth-grade classes, and no movements allowed except for working or necessity reasons.
• In orange zones, restrictions included compulsory closing of restaurants and online education for high schools only, while movement within the home-town territory was still allowed.
• In yellow zones, the only restrictions included compulsory closing for restaurant and bar activities at 6 PM, and online education for high schools only.

Starting from 6 November, Lombardy, Piedmont, Aosta Valley and Calabria were classified as red zones. Sicily and Apulia were classified as orange zones, while the rest of the country was declared as yellow zone.[105] On 9 November, the autonomous province of South Tyrol was declared red zone as well.[106] In the following week, Campania and Tuscany were also declared red zones, while other seven regions, Emilia-Romagna, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Liguria, Umbria, Marche, Abruzzo and Basilicata, became orange zones.[107] On 18 December, Abruzzo was added to the list of red zones.[108]

On 2 December, a further movement restriction was implemented by the government in order to prevent an increase in cases during the Christmas holidays period, forbidding movement between regions from 21 December to 6 January. To prevent people from gathering during Christmas, Saint Stephen's Day and New Year's Day, travel between different comuni was also restricted, and the curfew for New Year's Eve was extended to 7 AM.[109]

As of 13 December, no region was declared red zone anymore. Abruzzo, Campania, Tuscany, the autonomous province of South Tyrol and Aosta Valley were classified as orange zones, and the remaining 16 regions and the autonomous province of Trento were yellow zones.[110]"

Each country had it's own fluid situation with Covid, it wasn't identical in every situation, nor were the responses. However we weren't dramatically different from most other countries.

Covid spreads chiefly via droplets and aerosols exhaled from your mouth and nose. Masks, even just cloth masks, reduce that spread. Keyword: reduce. So on a population level it was a no-brainer during the pandemic. Most countries had mask mandates or rule because predictably a handful refused to wear them.

The anti-maskers were more hysterical than anyone else. Turning up at protests, screeching about vaccines that weren't out, going on about conspiracies and all that.

You must be joking right?! Flag? Yes. Actually taking someone in? No way! These people are only interested in LOOKING like they care about others not actually caring about them.

You are being very lenient with the facts here. August 2020 in Ireland was a depressing existence. We had the nightly covid numbers on RTE , the bars nationwide were effectively shut with exception to outdoors seating. The “partial lockdown” in those 3 counties was not much difference to the open counties except for the pubs being closed down.

My local outdoors tennis court remained shut for the entire summer of 2020. My golf club had made it so difficult to have a game that it wasn’t worth the hassle.

Scrapping the barrel as you say. Every conceivable reason to remain negative, over-cautious and cowardly was conjured up by NPHET/government/media when we should have been up & running that summer 2020.

That term 'wet pub' was another howler

Worse that our 'leaders' thought up of it

Dr.ray walley was he the guy that nphet wheeled out to berate that family.