By godā¦ Iāve probably given you the odd shoulder out and about.
The constant rattling on and over focus on the bloody Leaving Cert.
Most people locked down, funerals impacted, are we really bothered about whether a bunch of young people sit a traditional exam or projected grades, a lot of which wonāt matter jack shit to the people doing them.
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Totally agree. Pass the leaving cert and another 4 years of exams
You just donāt get it, fella.
I hope I never āgetā whatever āitā is if it means having the same disregard for life as you obviously have. This faux intellectualism re Mazlow and caring about peopleās basic needs is typical hypocrisy from people with your type of outlook. If you at least admitted you donāt care about anyone but yourself and your pocket then I would have some respect for your point of view.
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They will matter a lot to the people doing the exams. I know a lad who repeated the leaving last year and missed out on what he wanted to do on projected grades because because of the points going up so much
Unless youāre suggesting just giving everybody what they want which I donāt think is feasible
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You on full pay bud?
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And you still donāt get it. I donāt have a disregard for life. Quite the opposite in fact. Ironically, in taking your perceived moral high ground, youāre coming across as very hypocritical in your disregard for the lives of those less well off than you.
The sneer dripping from your post is nauseating - āpeople with your type of outlookā. How dare those faux intellectual, capitalism-loving, alternative view-having motherfuckers open their mouths, right? The lockdown has turned into your fanatical political ideology. Heaven knows the signs were there when you threw your own mother out on the street.
And for the record, itās Maslow.
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Its class war at its finestā¦ The well off happy to throw those less fortunate under the bus. Politicians using covid as a shield. The super rich doubling their wealthā¦ The media complicit as they keep themselves relevant through scaremongering.
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In Ireland the left wing TDs are most fanatical about extreme lockdowns that disproportionately affect the least wealthy.
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Do we have many left wing TDs?
Or alternatively, your strategy here, which screams about the āelderlyā and caring, when it is well established on here that your primary concern is that you arenāt being ordered around an office by your boss anymore.
Your approach to this consistently ignores actual outcomes and tradeoffs.
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My concern for those less well off was there prior to Covid. Funnily enough you were one of those who constantly ridiculed anyone who had a āloony leftā outlook. If there was a fiver increase in the dole youād be apoplectic with rage so while you may well have had a road to Damascus realisation ince Covid started, forgive me if I am a bit dubious.
Hereās an article which reckons Ireland did pretty well in reducing cases since christmas.
Do you know if they heeded the WHOās advice regarding pcr testing?
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Unlike many on here Iām no exprt but my reading of that is that numbers went up when the country opened up, and went down when restrictions were reintroduced. This tallies with what you would expect with a highly contagious virus. The experts on here seem to disagree though, they say that lockdowns donāt work and that what happened in January proves this.
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Good to see Luke OāNeill penning a self congratulatory article
I donāt have a baldy notion and neither do I care. And if you ask me any more questions I donāt understand Iāll fillet you.
Theyāre all too clever for me so I donāt really bother. Iād hazard a guess that there isnāt anything would change their minds, so maybe youāre wasting your time.
That all sounds very smart but what would be your alternatives to lockdown and easing in Ireland over the last year?