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All Covid-19 measures are permanent, don't be a boiling frog!

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    #4532
    Parachutes
    Registered Users Posts: 975 ✭✭✭Parachutes


    Trigger wrote: »
    I agree, the future has yet to be seen, but the only measures that have been continuous since they were brought in have been masks and social distancing.

    All measures have not been a permanent fixture since the pandemic started, they have been sporadic, and with the introduction of vaccines we will see less and less restrictions in place as we move forward

    Not really, you couldn’t go on holidays for example and wet pubs/nightclubs haven’t been open.


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    #4533
    runawaybishop
    Registered Users Posts: 9,500 ✭✭✭runawaybishop


    Parachutes wrote: »
    Not really, you couldn’t go on holidays for example and wet pubs/nightclubs haven’t been open.

    I'm going on holidays in 3 weeks and will be having a pint.

    Thread states ALL restrictions will be permanent, this is manifestly horse****.


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    #4534
    robinph
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,079 Mod ✭✭✭✭robinph


    Parachutes wrote: »
    Not really, you couldn’t go on holidays for example and wet pubs/nightclubs haven’t been open.

    And when are those restrictions due to be lifted?

    Different jurisdiction, but same pandemic, and I've been able to go to the pub for a month already and as of next week I'll be able to sit inside a pub for a pint. Nightclubs potentially due open in about 6 weeks.

    So not permanent then.


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    #4535
    Trigger
    Registered Users Posts: 17,538 ✭✭✭✭Trigger


    Parachutes wrote: »
    Not really, you couldn’t go on holidays for example and wet pubs/nightclubs haven’t been open.

    I have seen plenty of people go on holidays and quarantine on return since the first restrictions came in.

    As for Wet pubs/nightclubs, I thought that wet pubs opened everywhere apart from Dublin in Sept or so last year, i could be misremembering there


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    #4536
    Dohnjoe
    Registered Users Posts: 17,795 ✭✭✭✭Dohnjoe


    Parachutes wrote: »
    We’ve been permanently under 1 restriction or another since March 2020, yes. Future is yet to be seen.

    This appears like you are insinuating the perhaps certain measures could be permanent, why would that be?

    In 300 pages of this thread we've had countless hints and innuendo that measures are permanent, but no one has explained why.


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    #4537
    Timberrrrrrrr
    Registered Users Posts: 25,429 ✭✭✭✭Timberrrrrrrr


    Parachutes wrote: »
    We’ve been permanently under 1 restriction or another since March 2020, yes. Future is yet to be seen.

    A simple question for you (that no one has dared answer yet). As per the thread title, what restrictions do you think will be permanent and why would they be kept as a permanent thing.


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    #4538
    King Mob
    Registered Users Posts: 25,229 ✭✭✭✭King Mob


    Timberrrrrrrr wrote: »
    A simple question for you (that no one has dared answer yet). As per the thread title, what restrictions do you think will be permanent and why would they be kept as a permanent thing.

    He already answered this and suggested that social distancing and masks might be permanent.

    The reasoning being that social distancing will stop people protesting.
    The masks will be a reminder that there's a pandemic.

    He has not explained how these reasons make a lick of sense.


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    #4539
    Dohnjoe
    Registered Users Posts: 17,795 ✭✭✭✭Dohnjoe


    Timberrrrrrrr wrote: »
    A simple question for you (that no one has dared answer yet). As per the thread title, what restrictions do you think will be permanent and why would they be kept as a permanent thing.

    "Based on faulty thinking I have a vague feeling that the government is up to something with Covid and wants to control us somehow, I have no proper evidence or even reasoning for this and barely believe it myself, but I'll post the notion up on a forum and do whatever mental gymnastics it takes to defend it to death"

    Is a hypothetical answer ;)


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    #4540
    Trigger
    Registered Users Posts: 17,538 ✭✭✭✭Trigger


    Just on masks and the thoughts that they might be permanent, today restrictions were eased on fully vaccinated people who can now meet with other fully vaccinated people in an indoor setting (three households) without the need wear a mask


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    #4541
    Pinch Flat
    Registered Users Posts: 7,761 ✭✭✭Pinch Flat


    The only people that seem to want the restrictions maintained permanently are the conspiracy theorists. Meantime everyone's getting on with their lives. I'll be visiting my elderly mum for the first time since Christmas this Saturday. Family reunion organized for June.


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    #4542
    political analyst
    Registered Users Posts: 4,464 ✭✭✭political analyst


    There's a bizarre hashtag on Twitter with the acronym TCOIMH, which stands for 'The Control Of Information Makes History'.

    The Twitter account tweeting this is duzBme, which has the handle @knighteye.

    duzBme thinks that the main-stream media, along with the big guns of social media, have the control of information.

    The account says about these media:
    They dictate the narrative all things COVID and the pixies lap it up hook, line and sinker. Generations to come will believe everything written and reported today.


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    #4543
    EyesClosed
    Registered Users Posts: 1,453 ✭✭✭EyesClosed


    political analyst wrote: »
    There's a bizarre hashtag on Twitter with the acronym TCOIMH, which stands for 'The Control Of Information Makes History'.

    The Twitter account tweeting this is duzBme, which has the handle @knighteye.

    duzBme thinks that the main-stream media, along with the big guns of social media, have the control of information.

    The account says about these media:

    Stop getting your information from twitter


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    #4544
    Timberrrrrrrr
    Registered Users Posts: 25,429 ✭✭✭✭Timberrrrrrrr


    political analyst wrote: »
    There's a bizarre hashtag on Twitter with the acronym TCOIMH, which stands for 'The Control Of Information Makes History'.

    The Twitter account tweeting this is duzBme, which has the handle @knighteye.

    duzBme thinks that the main-stream media, along with the big guns of social media, have the control of information.

    The account says about these media:

    You don't see the irony of this person using Twitter to get this "message" across? :pac:


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    #4545
    silliussoddius
    Registered Users Posts: 3,785 ✭✭✭silliussoddius


    Who are we to argue with duzBme?


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    #4546
    Trigger
    Registered Users Posts: 17,538 ✭✭✭✭Trigger


    political analyst wrote: »
    There's a bizarre hashtag on Twitter with the acronym TCOIMH, which stands for 'The Control Of Information Makes History'.

    The Twitter account tweeting this is duzBme, which has the handle @knighteye.

    duzBme thinks that the main-stream media, along with the big guns of social media, have the control of information.

    The account says about these media:

    Mod: The above seems to be your not so clever way to get around the previous mod warning on link dumps. Please add you own commentary to posts and refrain from posting in this manner in future


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    #4547
    astrofool
    Registered Users Posts: 16,466 ✭✭✭✭astrofool


    Pinch Flat wrote: »
    The only people that seem to want the restrictions maintained permanently are the conspiracy theorists. Meantime everyone's getting on with their lives. I'll be visiting my elderly mum for the first time since Christmas this Saturday. Family reunion organized for June.

    They want the conspiracy they've been fighting against to be real just so they aren't proven wrong.

    Maybe they'll take credit that their battle against these measures has lead to them dropping the measures.

    I'm also amazed that in 5000 posts not one of them predicted Gates would be getting a divorce, you'd think one of them would have accidentally made this prediction.

    A stopped clock tells the right time twice a day (unless they're also a conspiracy theorist).


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    #4548
    Dohnjoe
    Registered Users Posts: 17,795 ✭✭✭✭Dohnjoe


    astrofool wrote: »
    They want the conspiracy they've been fighting against to be real just so they aren't proven wrong.

    Maybe they'll take credit that their battle against these measures has lead to them dropping the measures.

    I'm also amazed that in 5000 posts not one of them predicted Gates would be getting a divorce, you'd think one of them would have accidentally made this prediction.

    A stopped clock tells the right time twice a day (unless they're also a conspiracy theorist).

    If cases start to jump in the slightest, even with the vaccinations, and one measure is temporarily reversed, temporarily, I cast-iron guarantee covid conspiracy theorists will claim "victory", they were "right all along". Calling it now.


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    #4549
    robinph
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,079 Mod ✭✭✭✭robinph


    Doesn't even need cases of covid to jump, just need someone with a cold/flu to be walking the street in late October wearing a mask and getting quizzed about the mask as a filler segment on a quiet day of news.


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    #4550
    johnmck
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 415 ✭✭johnmck


    Dohnjoe wrote: »
    If cases start to jump in the slightest, even with the vaccinations, and one measure is temporarily reversed, temporarily, I cast-iron guarantee covid conspiracy theorists will claim "victory", they were "right all along". Calling it now.

    Lockdowns and curfew in September, calling it now. Who wants to put a flutter on it?


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    #4551
    Pinch Flat
    Registered Users Posts: 7,761 ✭✭✭Pinch Flat


    Dohnjoe wrote: »
    If cases start to jump in the slightest, even with the vaccinations, and one measure is temporarily reversed, temporarily, I cast-iron guarantee covid conspiracy theorists will claim "victory", they were "right all along". Calling it now.

    I think NPHET have been pretty open that numbers will rise however the demographic catching the virus now is largely in the 18-24 age group. Yeah the tin foil hatters will be all over it "masks don't work because numbers are rising".


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    #4552
    Pinch Flat
    Registered Users Posts: 7,761 ✭✭✭Pinch Flat


    johnmck wrote: »
    Lockdowns and curfew in September, calling it now. Who wants to put a flutter on it?

    Why would we have a curfew? Been no curfews here to date.


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    #4553
    johnmck
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 415 ✭✭johnmck


    Pinch Flat wrote: »
    Why would we have a curfew? Been no curfews here to date.

    I'm still trying to find short segment on Newstalk where Ciara Kelly asks that NPHET doctor would he be in favour of curfews when schools return in September 2021. He said he would. If somebody can please find the segment post a link.
    The question came out of nowhere from her.


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    #4554
    johnmck
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 415 ✭✭johnmck


    Pinch Flat wrote: »
    Why would we have a curfew? Been no curfews here to date.

    You a betting person?


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    #4555
    Pinch Flat
    Registered Users Posts: 7,761 ✭✭✭Pinch Flat


    johnmck wrote: »
    You a betting person?

    I had a good Cheltenham:) . There won't be any curfews here. Calling it now.


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    #4556
    Dr. Bre
    Registered Users Posts: 7,557 ✭✭✭Dr. Bre


    Pinch Flat wrote: »
    Why would we have a curfew? Been no curfews here to date.

    Curflu more like...


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    #4557
    King Mob
    Registered Users Posts: 25,229 ✭✭✭✭King Mob


    johnmck wrote: »
    Lockdowns and curfew in September, calling it now. Who wants to put a flutter on it?

    I think that when September comes and goes and no curfews happen you will refuse to acknowledge this fact or that your prediction turned out to be wrong.

    Do you believe that once the curfews introduced in September, they will be permanent?
    If so, what's the real motive for this?


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    #4558
    johnmck
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 415 ✭✭johnmck


    King Mob wrote: »
    I think that when September comes and goes and no curfews happen you will refuse to acknowledge this fact or that your prediction turned out to be wrong.

    Do you believe that once the curfews introduced in September, they will be permanent?
    If so, what's the real motive for this?

    Ah not you again. I'm willing to lose money on it what more do you want Leo


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    #4559
    King Mob
    Registered Users Posts: 25,229 ✭✭✭✭King Mob


    johnmck wrote: »
    Ah not you again. I'm willing to lose money on it what more do you want Leo
    Answers to direct questions instead of dodging and ignoring would be nice.

    But you clearly can't do this as you don't want to apply any critical thoughts to your conspiracy theory.


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    #4560
    PintOfView
    Registered Users Posts: 857 ✭✭✭PintOfView


    johnmck wrote: »
    Lockdowns and curfew in September, calling it now. Who wants to put a flutter on it?

    Ok, that's fairly clear.
    You are betting your credibility there will be a curfew in September.
    By end of September, if there is no curfew in Ireland, you admit your credibility is suspect?


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    #4561
    johnmck
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 415 ✭✭johnmck


    King Mob wrote: »
    Answers to direct questions instead of dodging and ignoring would be nice.

    But you clearly can't do this as you don't want to apply any critical thoughts to your conspiracy theory.

    Tell me, what's conspiracy about me saying that there will be lockdowns and curfews in September ? Lockdowns have happened before and Newstalk leaked curfews , so where is the conspiracy. You seem to want something more, like you are lakogk something. But I don't think you'll find it here


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