Coronavirus thread - 19/10/2020 - The Day Ireland Died

[Raylan]

They don’t mean the dinner. They want the month-long shopping festival before it.

[binkybarnes]

@Iggy

Simon Harris says he doesn’t want people calling around “for a few cans” at the weekend.

I’d say the socially retarded, pencil necked cunt is safe enough.

[carryharry]

Eddie Brennan spoke well there on Radio 1.

Seems happy to carry on with Inter County once proper precautions are in place. Feels the association has had a few own goals in recent weeks.

Feels if they were to call a halt it could be seen as right but also sees the game going ahead as a big boost to good % of society.

Thinks it’s odd for Kerry to have to go up to Monaghan this weekend considering restrictions up there etc.

[TheUlteriorMotive]

Fear. Fear is the most powerful motivator.

If you sufficiently scare a person they become compliant.

[caulifloweredneanderthal]

Just heard the Garda in Tralee is actually two weeks away from retirement (from a colleague of his).

You couldn’t make it up

[Tim_Riggins]

It is far from FFG. It’s the mainstream position of every Irish party, the only party who have shown an ounce of bravery in this was Labour along with a couple of Independent politicians.

[Little_Lord_Fauntleroy]

Yes mate. Spreading a killer disease is a “bit of an own goal”

[Copper_pipe]

1 death in ICU in the past 24 hours.

Testing capacity has increased to 18k tests per day /126k tests a week.

[TheUlteriorMotive]

Whole country tested in six months

[TheUlteriorMotive]

Homophobe. Victim blaming.

Power is gone to your head.

[cluaindiuic]

@TheUlteriorMotive

Whole country tested in six months

Assuming no duplication.

That’s never really been clear in the daily announcements.

[Copper_pipe]

Richard Chambers (newschambers)

[myboyblue]

@Copper_pipe

https://twitter.com/newschambers/status/1316731938330345472

Lads will be delighted that it’s being used

[maroonandwhite]

True but the polarization and backing your leader to the hilt is a recent enough phenomenon in the main

[binkybarnes]

@maroonandwhite

True but the polarization and backing your leader to the hilt is a recent enough phenomenon in the main

Apart from the Civil War.

[Lazarus]

@Tank

It’s turning into the greatest example of mass insanity since the growth of fascism in WW2. If you remember at the start when the experts were saying that people could only cope with lockdown for a short while and now the majority of people want full lockdown forever, I think one of the big mistakes that the experts made is they thought that the modern liberal Irish or British person was smarter or better than the average German in the 1930s.

1. They massively underestimated the the “middle class respectability” effect - aspirational people who will believe any fucking nonsense if it’s the new establishment position with even greater enthusiasm than the establishment itself. This connects with the public enthusiasm for blaming themselves and absolving their beloved leaders.
2. They underestimated how effective RTE / mass media propaganda still is today. They thought modern man would see through it. They can’t.
3. They underestimated how quickly people get used to new, worse circumstances.

And thats the story of how the 21st century was lost and the French Revolution was finally defeated. It’s a very sobering thought that we aren’t really much smarter than 1930s German people.

[Copper_pipe]

966 positive swabs from 13428 tests.

7.19% positivity rate

[Batigol]

Three quarters of randomly tested people in the UK had “no notable symptoms at all”

Covid: more than 80% of positive UK cases in study had no core symptoms

This is the deadly virus that’s stopping you visiting any other household in the country, preventing you from leaving the county, closing your business. It’s so serious the vast majority of people dont even know they have it

[peddlerscross]

Its insanity what’s happening when you think about it.

[Batigol]

Absolute madness.