I nominate @Tierneevin1979 as tribute
Very good, ha ha.
Surely people in the entertainment sector should be out protesting? Utter joke.
What are the chances of Christy Moore at Vicar Street going ahead in mid December?
Conor Conor Conor 
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Iād say any upcoming gigs from the end November are in grave danger.
Weāve been here before. The restrictions are going to intensify as we move into December.
Itās easy know heās a publican now.
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You are correct.
He will be outside the dail trying to throw things through the windows tomorrow
The Mc Will sort this out
How does our icu and hospital capacity in general compare with other European countries and the Brits? Thereās surely beds per 100k or the likes that good internet arguers have at their fingertipsā¦
Donāt worry. Fellas like colum eastwood and @TheBlackSpot will have us carrying papers soon enough.
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From memory we arenāt the worst but the Germans have like 5 times more than us.
Iād put you in the Kesh you cunt on a diet of Ivermectin
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We canāt take any chances, they should cancel the FAI Cup final now that the league is sorted
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Yourself and colum couldnāt bate snow off a rope
Iād bate your arse with a hurley so hard youād want colum to ride you to get away.
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How is an oul spinster like you going to do anything when youāre holding onto your zimmer frame for dear life
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Mandatory vaccines are not forced vaccines. You canāt physically force vaccines into people but you can mandate them.
Italy currently has what are effectively vaccine mandates for 23 million workers in both the state sector and the private sector. If Italy can do that so can everywhere else.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/11/12/coronavirus-italy-vaccine-mandate/
At the moment anyway, Italy are doing as well as anybody in Europe.
Germany has these sort of pop up testing locations. Why canāt we?
I can scarcely think of a worse learning environment for children than what pervades at the moment. Thatās because of Covid. What has been allowed to happen in schools is unconscionable in my book. Not just as regards the children themselves, but because of the wider implications for spread. The last two and a half months have been the time more than any other in the pandemic when schools should have been off. I acknowledge many parents would find it very difficult or impossible to take their children out of school, but if I had a choice I would be doing so. Nobody can seriously say that it was a good move to remove contact tracing. If there are mixed messages, why is this not being addressed? Where is the ventilation? Where are the masks? Luke OāNeill says all children should be wearing masks. Itās a shitty situation either way but it seems to me that the policy is to effectively make things as shit as possible. Neither do I understand the rush to dismiss the threat of the virus for children themselves. We do not know the true long term impacts of it, beyond what we already know about long Covid, which is more than bad enough. These are the possible long term impacts that people should be worrying about. Could Covid make people more susceptible to neurodegenerative disease in the long term? Seems to me itās very valid worry.
Covid hospitals? Where do we get the extra nurses to run Covid hospitals? Where do we get extra trained staff to run extra ICU beds? Plan for it by all means, but they are and have to be a last resort. Why arenāt we aiming for a situation where we donāt need them? If we do end up needing them, something has gone badly wrong.
Finance is going to be an issue for every country. But itās something we will have to come to terms with. Answers are going to have to be found. The finance will have to be found. And if all this results in austerity at the end of it, there will be trouble, big trouble. So itās up to the finance bots to come up with answers like they did after World War II, when they came up with answers to stave off revolutions and the end of democracy. Weāre all part of a big European Union. Reduced PUP inevitably means less compliance.
Compliance will always be an issue in this country. Itās just the way we are. Go to the continent and nobody jaywalks. Irish people see rules as being there to be broken. But this culture is cutting off our nose to spite our face. Unless it changes we are in trouble.
Itās all very well to say people are tired, but itās sloganeering.There is a large cohort out there living in fear, and quite rationally so. Which is disastrous in economic terms. The problem doesnāt go away because people are tired. The problem will hopefully away when we put a comprehensive policy framework in place to make sure it goes away. But I donāt see any sign of that. Boosters in over 50s will work, but what then? Weāll probably stop then, think āah shure weāve done enoughā, and itāll prove to be half measures again, and walk into more problems.
zimmer frame or no Iād be fit for any cunt of a dairy/derry farmer pulling a bullās cock for his pleasure.
He seems to share a lot with his cattleā¦
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