Five years on, what did COVID teach you?

This! Over time, I saw people shed layers of stress—no more frantic commutes, scrambling for babysitters, or racing home to make appointments. With remote work, those tasks could be folded into the rhythm of the workday itself. It gave people back hours they didn’t realise they were losing.

unrealted, try again, you said there were scores of people with longterm vaccine issues, and, no evidance.
swing again.

Continually saying "the next two weeks are critical" becomes less effective after about 10 time of saying it.

Back in October I got Covid. Again. Must have been my 5th time getting it, so them saying "If you get it, you only get it once" is bollox.

It taught me, or maybe just reminded me that our government are shite when it comes to any kind of emergency and planning it seems. Even today, when there is no pandemic or national or international medical issue, there are people on trolleys in corridors in hospitals all around the country. Has it not occurred to any of them to build a few more hospitals?

Can't believe people on this thread still trotting out all the misinformation that was disproved years ago. People don't learn. They become entrenched in a mindset. They don't want to learn or be informed.

A lot of stuff is all with the benefit of hindsight. It skyrocketed misinformation and false narratives. Social media and all media is far lower quality now as it panders to making a fast buck from misinformation and conspiracy.

Science is built on consensus around repeatable results.

An individual can have all the experience they want. If they can not objectively demonstrate why their hypothesis is valid, then it is correct to ignore it.

If they can show their works and others can repeat we get a new consensus (or at least competing theories)

All the best internet person, look after yourself

I learned that I enjoyed the Covid period.
I wasnt negatively financially impacted, in fact the opposite. I was actually made redundant which forced me down a alternative industry path which ultimately has profited me more.

I had months off work paid fully in the summer time which was great.

There was a good sense of community and there was a good sense of "were in this together" vibe.

Looking back it was great. But i wasnt in Ireland, i was in London.

But you couldn't go on them because Tony holohan had guards at the airport quizzing people on the nature of their trip, if it wasn't "essential " you could not go.

Even the green list countries early on during covid, the media were shaming people that travelled to those countries even though Tony had allowed it.

learned that most Irish people love being told what to do.

It’s no wonder the Catholic Church kept such a grip on the place for so long.
The amount of nonsense Covid-theatre that people indulged in would have been funny if it wasn’t so worrying.

Remember when Tony holohan refused to sanction the antigen home test kits which other countries like UK were widely using by then. He had people traipsing to covid test centres maybe waiting days for a test and told to isolate while waiting. Most people actually abided by this aswell , why was it so important to find out you had covid, it wasn't going to help you anyways.

Why was Tony holohan so insistent on this because with home test kits they would have lost control of the narrative, the RTE daily covid cases reported with such reverance would have lost their relevance .

COVID thought us that when the world is under threat we can be bandi together, stop the wars and work together to find a solution. 👍

Completely disagree, there is a strong argument that the Ukraine invasion would never have happened if it wasn't for covid. It was putin isolated in his bunker away from rational world leaders and advisers that taught he could take over Ukraine and it would all be so easy, he only had the ear of the crazy guys in the kremlin during covid and that was a primary reason for invasion. He had lost his grasp on reality

Turn off the TV/radio and research more!

Be a critical thinker!