Coronavirus

[Emphyrio]

Ya, this is it. That spa has taken all the spotlight now.

[astfgyl]

The media are reporting on him entirely now and nothing about the rest of the people there who did nothing wrong. It's a real shame. I believe in people's right to protest but I wouldn't condone violence from either the crowd or the guards. It doesn't achieve anything.

[pete]

What was the protest "advertised" as? Any links to tweets or flyers arranging it?

[astfgyl]

It was advertised as a peaceful and socially distanced protest. There's a flyer knocking around twitter I'll dig it out in a bit. Called Freedom March or something.

[ochoill]

National Party and IFP astroturfed it, it was made out to be apolitical and a lockdown protest but they were there anyway flyering the place and taking credit for organising it.  Various threads on twitter breaking it down.

[Emphyrio]

Saw a few more videos. Scumbags calling the guards scumbags, while throwing those plastic barricades. Self-awareness wouldn't be their strong suit I guess.

[astfgyl]

You're surely right and I saw the videos as well but that doesn't mean that everyone there was violent or right wing. It will be reported that they all were though, and the many people who think they were there to show their dissatisfaction with covid policy in particular will be lumped in with the usual crank crowd whohateeverything in the most aimless possible way.

Last year everyone said the protesters were selfish because it was only 3 weeks and that seemed fair enough. It is a year now and nothing has changed regarding policy to deal with things. So while I strongly believe that today's carry on is wrong and counterproductive, I also believe that many people have legitimate reasons to voice their dissatisfaction  and would do so in the most peaceful fashion and with respect for the fact that the guards are there doing their job.

I'd love to kick the fuck out of that firework cunt.

[Emphyrio]

It seems like a very disparate lot, and you're right, the media will focus on the right wing causing the shenanigans but let's call a spade a spade, it was bored knackers looking to feel like hard men. They wouldn't understand the word "idealogy", let alone be there for any particular one. Thick cunts.

[astfgyl]

No I agree there was a large dickhead contingent and they did nobody any good. And it will happen every time anything like this is organised again.

It won't work anyway. People who don't want to associate themselves with that shit will have to think of something else  or forget about it.

[Kurt Cocaine]

Danish flat earthers in action...

https://youtu.be/KOKtDu2LUHo

[hellfire]

Not sure what it was designed to achieve. An end to lockdown? As little as I trust the Irish government I am sure that they would end lockdown in the morning if there was a viable way.  Hardly suits them to have the coffers empty.

[astfgyl]

I doubt it would end lockdown on the scale it's on. Might just put a flea in governments' ears enough to get them to think twice about some of their decisions. But that is purely wishful thinking on my part. How long would this have to go in its' current format of restrictions here before anyone would protest? They will surely get bigger with time but I still doubt anyone in government would listen unless it was an election year. There is no way the government could just stop what they are doing this minute anyway without finishing themselves off politically, no matter what public support or what evidence was found for anything.

Little bit here may be of interest to anyone wondering about variants and their new found fame: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/wuhan-covid-variants-december-2019-who-investigation-b1802393.html

The variants are convenient when things need to be justified, such as vaccines not working and booster shots and also keeping restrictions going post vaccination etc but they are certainly nothing like a new phenomenon with over 4000 already logged. And although some dominate at different times in different areas, there is no telling where they started really, only where someone turned up positive with one.

[Kurt Cocaine]

More bad news as the first vaccine for COVID will run out soon as global demand increases...

The Pfizer chiefs have said; "They predict a riot!!"

[astfgyl]

Well it's not as if they didn't know demand was about to go up since 2019....

https://ec.europa.eu/health/sites/health/files/vaccination/docs/2019-2022_roadmap_en.pdf

Looks like it's going well so far.

[astfgyl]

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/health-service-in-crisis-almost-one-million-hospital-appointments-cancelled-by-pandemic-40147955.html

Great job done keeping everyone safe. good proportional response even after it became apparent that it wasn't exactly ebola.

Lots of money to keep people out of work. 40 Billion in last year's budget to cover covid cost. Health service decimated since 2008 while government and higher executive positions' salaries go through the roof, and frontline staff are underpaid, under-resourced, understaffed and undervalued even this minute when the student nurses can't be paid for what is said to be an extremely high risk situation and the TD's who didn't lose a cent or a day's work (work, fuck off seriously) are after getting a raise. Really think about it all and no matter what, nothing ever changes with the shower in this country. Think about roqu digital and the 14 million awarded by the hse and for nothing and that doesn't even scratch the surface of the carry on around all this. one of the nphet lads has a fucking pcr testing lab and nphet keep saying the rapid tests are no good. All the advisors are paid or funded or have received grants from pharma companies. Don't take my word for it, actually find out and then say it's bollix. We're all going around, meeting no one, fined for going over 5km even if there is nobody there, no work for hundreds of thousands, no fuck all really, no travel, impending recession, fully paid up to the united states of europe, at the mercy of an unelected group of advisors and everyone of them riddled fucking riddled with conflicts of interest.

remember the banking crisis in 2008 where we all did fuck all wrong and people lost houses, businesses, jobs, fucking jobbridge don't forget jobbridge, banks clawing back debt so they could sell it to international vulture funds. your fucking toll you pay on the roads today is fucking profit to private interests because the coffers were empty on the strength of bailing out the fucking banks instead of using it to improve fucking road and rail infrastructure in the country and actually sort a real problem for fucking once. well here we again only this time it's 1000 times worse. we will all vomit into our mouths when we actually find out the extent of the bollixing that's after going on here.

And by the way, don't forget to wear your mask and wash your fucking hands over and fucking over while we (judiciary, business execs, government contacts, yknow the usual golf fiends) go to an 80 man dinner and you can't piss crooked without being a covidiot on tomorrows paper. by the way, 4 year old child, don't touch your face because it might indirectly lead to your granny dying at some stage actually let me explain chaos theory to you and the oft-mentioned but not as often in actual scientific literature butterfly effect. So no matter what you do son, except for staying away from everyone forever or taking jabs to keep your health passport updated, you might kill your granny by living at all. Fuck off the whole lot of it. fuck the fucking fuckitty fuck right off.

Please tell us when we can go out, Leo Varadkar and Micheal Martin, the very two cunts we tried to get rid of at the last election? Oh let's not forget the fucking shitehawk out of the green party that you needed to pass the most unlikely government in the history of the state (until the shinners get into bed with the both of the bastards at the next time of asking). We really trust that you are doing everything you can to keep us all fucking safe. Never mind that we never once trusted you for even half a second (or 10 words, whichever is fastest). Fuck sake can it actually be that everyone doesn't see all this bollix?

Make sure next time we are washing our hands to splash the stone cold water on our faces as well. It might wake us up a bit.

Lads getting out protesting? Who'd fucking blame them?