Donāt forget Martin Feely. It sounds good so it must be right. The feelings over facts brigade.
Itās guaranteed that almost every single person I meet this weekend will make some sort of reference to this. The best thing about having @Cheasty on tfk is I can hear the counter argument. What is it ?
The UK had 11k cases yesterday. Thatās up from around 2k a few weeks ago.
The UK is still well ahead of us in vaccination terms.
The UK has 45.7% of the population fully vaccinated and 72 million doses given out overall in a population of 65 million.
Ireland has 20.4% fully vaccinated and 3.1m doses given out in a population of 4.9 million.
People are free to ignore that if they want but I donāt see why you would.
Itās actually good to have zero covid lunatics like @Cheasty and @mikehunt to keep us down.
The Danes and the majority of US/EU states and NPHET are correct in their eyes.
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I must have missed the UK taking Denmark into the Union
Itās great for us that the best you can offer is calling us ālunaticsā. Makes you very easy to dismiss.
So please, do keep it up.
We have been through this before. Anyone who says zero covid was possible with a border the British army couldnāt seal is obviously not all there.
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Of course it was possible. Human decisions determine whether something is possible or not. Sure didnāt we all have 5km borders around us and we didnāt need the British Army to police that.
It isnāt going to happen now and that isnāt the argument being made now, so do keep up rather than trying to pretend itās last summer.
Is that any better than a Gerry Killeen disciple?
The current science sees us with the most restrictive regime in the EU.
I saw anecdotal evidence myself a month ago when I was up the north. LIDTF advocates like yourself fucking it up for the rest of us that want some normality like they have everywhere else.
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31% fully vaccinated of 16+ population.
EDIT I see youāre referring to entire populations.
Carry on.
Thereās loads of normality currently.
You can book an internal city break and go shopping and go for a pint or four.
Iām exceedingly comfortable with the decision not to have Euros matches here, it makes total sense.
Lads here constantly moan about our inability to organise anything properly as a nation, they say weāre useless and incompetent. Yet out the other side of their mouths theyāre saying we can do what the Danes did.
So which is it? Is Paddy useless and incompetent or exceedingly competent and responsible like the Danes? Because it canāt be both.
The Danes are renowned granny murderers in fairness. Tis the Viking coming out in them.
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Iām taking the figures from the columns on the right side of these pages so they are directly comparable. I see the numbers have now actually moved on a wee bit since I posted them there, which is nice. Itās like waiting for a very slow moving torrent to download.
What we have at the moment is not normal.
Iām hopeful that rules are thrown out the window when pubs properly open in 2.5 weeks. One of the only countries in EU without indoor dining I heard.
2,000 at a match in Croke park, all wearing masks. Itās like something out of a nightmare movie.
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Well you were talking about wanting āsome normalityā. Which is what we have.
Paddy has a terrible problem with the dhrink.
Both nutjobs but fewer deaths to be a disciple of Killeen so depends on the value you place on life I suppose.
Do you think itād be impossible to patrol the border in an attempt to restrict the spread of a deadly disease?
The next two weeks are crucial.