Coronavirus - Here come the variants

[Heyyoubehindthebushes]

Any educated person with a decent degree would have been told challenge every fact given to you until your satisfied its not bullshit. Unfortunately the rote learning nature of our education system has created yes men drones to recite the bullshit. Clearly journalism courses fall into this category

[gaillimhmick]

If you can write two sentences and post on twitter you are now considered a successful journalist.

[gaillimhmick]

@mikehunt

Fair play to her. All the elderly should take heed. Stop complaining and die so we can go back for pints.

You have awful tendency to misquote people to fit your own narrative. I’m not sure yet if it’s a simple unconcious case of confirmation bias or a more sinister deceitful streak. I’ll give you the benefit of doubt for now but I’ll be paying closer attention from now on.

[Heyyoubehindthebushes]

It would have happened 20 years ago, hysterical mass media outlets needing airtime, social media giving every Brenda and Nuala a voice of concern about teenagers out on the soccer field or primary schools being super spreader hotshots. It would have been simple wash hands dont go out when sick and ring this phone number for a test.

[Heyyoubehindthebushes]

I recently had a lovely conversation with a popular journalist on twitter told him what I thought of the fourth estate in ireland

[myboyblue]

@tallback

It’s fairly hilarious watching lads arguing we should OIUTF because the risk is minimal etc and people should take their chances, stop being scaredy-cats etc and then saying they won’t be taking vaccines due to their worries about some undiscovered (and therefore extremely low) risk.

Maybe they’re just afraid of needles

I agree. @The_Most_Infamous is a Fanny.

[mikehunt]

Eh, I didn’t quote anyone. Someone posted last night that they hoped everyone died so they could open the pubs. Twas the first bit of honesty I’ve seen on the Covid thread from a mentaller.

[myboyblue]

@mikehunt

Eh, I didn’t quote anyone. Someone posted last night that they hoped everyone died so they could open the pubs. Twas the first bit of honesty I’ve seen on the Covid thread from a mentaller.

Who said that mate

[glenshane]

@Arthur

He was the one who used the phrase

The edumacated phrase? I suppose I meant reasonably well informed, nuttin more

[glenshane]

@tallback

Maybe they’re just afraid of needles

Ah. The Karen from Facebook trump card argument.

[glenshane]

@glasagusban

It’s more bizarre after we saw how quickly we came quite close to that point at Christmas.

Oh I know…and not just last Christmas either

[Bisto]

The lockdown is over …I had to do essential travel yesterday and places are absolutely hopping…

[Fagan_ODowd]

@gaillimhmick

@glasagusban

Europe’s oldest person, French nun Sister Andre, has survived Covid-19 and will celebrate her 117th birthday tomorrow, her caregivers said.

Lucile Randon, who took the name of Sister Andre when she joined a Catholic charitable order in 1944, tested positive for coronavirus in her retirement home in Toulon, southern France, on 16 January.

She was isolated from other residents, but displayed no symptoms.

Asked if she was scared to have the virus, Sr Andre told France’s BFM television: “No, I wasn’t scared because I wasn’t scared to die”.

40 years of age was old enough to be joining a convent. I wonder what prompted that move.

[myboyblue]

All her riding done

[Batigol]

Lockdowns will be remembered as a disaster.

[johnnysachs]

I made a near 200 mile round trip to Listowel to see my 94 year old grandmother who I had not seen in over a year to introduce her to my 1 year old daughter. It was good for the soul and I’m sure the little one will appreciate the picture in time.

[glenshane]

@Fagan_ODowd

40 years of age was old enough to be joining a convent. I wonder what prompted that move

This might be the shiftiest thing I’ve read on tfk.

[cluaindiuic]

@Julio_Geordio

I believe in the fullness of time when all the data is available and analysed without the hysteria that surrounds us currently that lockdowns will be seen as at best unnecessary and at worst extremely dangerous. We will be living with the unintended consequences of this for a decade at least

In all the likely outcomes that’s probably up there close to best case scenario.

We’ve now opened the door to lockdowns. The precedent is set. It became literally the only tool in the toolbox and it’s difficult to see a path for that being undone.

So when CovidMersSars24 comes along, will we go straight into lockdowns? The real question behind that is how likely is it that politicians around the world admit that lockdowns as a means to suppress a virus is the wrong thing to do? If we really believe that politicians while still in office will come out with a giant mea culpa then we’re living in a fantasy land.

Instead they’ll point to the completely unprovable notion that we were “better off” in lockdowns despite the easily quantifiable catastrophic collective side effects of the enormous backlog of medical appointments leading to eg missed cancer diagnoses, mass mental health deterioration, surge in domestic violence, stifling of children’s education and socialisation, wide scale destruction of businesses etc…

[Appendage]

I’m sitting with a dying relative who has forgotten her family and thinks we’ve forgotten about her as we’ve not been allowed to see her for a year with the exception of a few visits when she sat inside and we were outside the window.

It’s a tricky one in the context of the nursing home death crisis but I know many of the residents in this care facility feel they’ve been forgotten and left to die.

They don’t do FaceTime or zoom.

Lockdown + dementia is a dreadful combination.

[glasagusban]

Ok. What’s your point?