Coronavirus

[mugz]

I can tell from the general goings on around here that it isn't only the guards who don't give a shite. Everybody in this town is voting with their feet and doing whatever they like in terms of meeting friends and family and for right or wrong I think it's great to hear the buzz around from all the other gardens in spite of their awful taste in music

life is mediocre at best, people are correspondingly designed to be amused by mediocre things, ultimately leading to feelings of alienation and disgruntlement for the rest of us. summertime increases the number of attractive women in skimpy/figurehugging outfits, certainly a distraction, trying hard to hold in the gut, looking-not looking etc, I don't even know what a thing is anymore

[astfgyl]

Looking at the childcare situation here is an interesting one. It is said that childcare will be available to all from July, but that children of workers deemed essential should be prioritised where there is a shortage of spaces. What does that mean then for somebody not deemed essential if they can't get the kids minded? Do they stay on the PUP or what happens to them? There are so many holes in all of the plans I see put forward for reopening things that it is hard to see how a lot of it will be in any way workable when it actually comes down to it. So many of the health and safety ideas being touted are just not going to work in practice, or at least not in the long term if people are to get back to work.

[astfgyl]

"Anne Graham, CEO of the National Transport Authority, told the Special Oireachtas Committee on the Covid-19 Response that there needs to be a number of supporting measures to enable social distancing on public transport such as organisations continuing to encourage working from home, discouraging peak time travel except for public transport and staggered start times and longer opening hours."

So who wants to volunteer for the late start? Not fucking me, that's for sure.

Hopefully this will result in a staggered Dail as well and the cunts will have to turn up until about midnight

[mugz]

"Anne Graham, CEO of the National Transport Authority, told the Special Oireachtas Committee on the Covid-19 Response that there needs to be a number of supporting measures to enable social distancing on public transport such as organisations continuing to encourage working from home, discouraging peak time travel except for public transport and staggered start times and longer opening hours."

So who wants to volunteer for the late start? Not fucking me, that's for sure.

Hopefully this will result in a staggered Dail as well and the cunts will have to turn up until about midnight

where did you drag that seabeast out from?

[astfgyl]

My impartial friends at RTE tell me all I need to know

[Kunt 4 Life]

Seeing the black lives matter protests in both the states and in London makes you wonder if that's going to give Covid another spike. Not saying people shouldn't protest, but social distancing has quickly been forgotten.

[Caomhaoin]

They are being cancelled for that reason.

Those carrion birds from Sky News etc hounding yer man Cummings were like a gaggle of geese, cheek by jowl following him around. Their faux-outrage seemed to trump the obvious irony of them flouting the same rules he had broken.

[Carnage]

The one in Galway is still going ahead, despite the organisers pulling out. Given the gibshitwry that's been going on in the city during the hot spell, the next spike is imminent.

[Caomhaoin]

It's astounding that you're not supposed to hug yer Ma, weddings cancelled, funerals unattended, yet thousands of people protesting cheek by jowl in London and the police don't do anything.

Nuts.

[astfgyl]

lets see how the cases explode as a result.

If they do, then I will fully admit I have been wrong about the handling of the whole thing

[astfgyl]

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/aug/29/academic-publishers-murdoch-socialist

In a way that takes more typing that I can handle, this explains a lot of what I think about a lot of this whole hysteria. TLDR, the cunts have to justify their own existence and there is no better time to be in need of funding.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/aug/29/academic-publishers-murdoch-socialist

In a way that takes more typing that I can handle, this explains a lot of what I think about a lot of this whole hysteria. TLDR, the cunts have to justify their own existence and there is no better time to be in need of funding.

If you're interested in that whole schtick, it's something I work on:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeGl9IgTZcVDcyinQbosTKhrZVTTVhQ8fUg5Yc9K860AHeDpw/viewform
https://openscience-utrecht.com/2020/02/20/no-fee-science-interview-with-christopher-stevens/

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Just announced from autopsy results that George Floyd was positive but asymptomatic for coronavirus. Could be a bad omen for the COVID fallout of the protests.

[astfgyl]

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/aug/29/academic-publishers-murdoch-socialist

In a way that takes more typing that I can handle, this explains a lot of what I think about a lot of this whole hysteria. TLDR, the cunts have to justify their own existence and there is no better time to be in need of funding.

If you're interested in that whole schtick, it's something I work on:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeGl9IgTZcVDcyinQbosTKhrZVTTVhQ8fUg5Yc9K860AHeDpw/viewform
https://openscience-utrecht.com/2020/02/20/no-fee-science-interview-with-christopher-stevens/

Very good stuff. A noble idea indeed and I was impressed reading it. I imagine it makes very uncomfortable reading for many in the scientific community. Indeed it takes the whole idea a lot farther than just blaming it on the publishers of the journals. The Megadeth quote gave the game away by the way.

I genuinely hope you do well with this. I would have signed the manifesto as a supporter, but then I am not part of the scientific community which needs to look at itself.

[mugz]

I'm aware this is the other side of the same coin of the mainstream news, but I'll put it out there for balance's sake. I'm aware it's just a slightly more niche nonsense, and I'll never really know what's going on, or how  real anything is.

https://youtu.be/uNozXGmq3aE