OK but I havenāt seen you ever call out any personal abuse dished out by anti-vaxxers, which has been vicious, sustained and genuinely frightening. It strongly appears to me that the entire anti-vaccine and so called āvaccine hesitantā movement is rooted in threats of violence and the far right. It gives all the appearance of being a fascist or fascist adjacent movement. So the complaints of the unvaccinated about people not respecting their āchoicesā sort of rings hollow.
I think the reason there is such frustration among many vaccinated people about the unvaccinated is that the unvaccinated are preaching disinformation and lies. They are quite simply wrong. And those lies mean we end up with a lot more people dying than would otherwise have done so. These lies are very, very harmful to real peopleās lives. So you can sort of see why people take that seriously in terms of being affronted.
The difference between the amount of Covid deaths, in, say largely unvaccinated Romania, and largely vaccinated Ireland, is very telling.
A while back I did a satire of the anti-vaxxersā and so called āvaccine hesitantā narrative based on a made up anti-defibrillator campaign. Of course no such anti-defibrillator campaign exists. There is widespread acceptance of the effectiveness of defibrillators. Because we have seen them bring people effectively back from the dead.
Any hypothetical āanti-defibrillatorā campaigners would be laughed out of it.
Yet these vaccines are saving far more lives than defibrillators do.
I have no doubt the āconcernsā of most people who remain unvaccinated about the vaccine are genuine. But their genuine concerns are based on bullshit.
A lot of people in Florida hold genuine concerns that Joe Biden is a communist. But their genuine beliefs are bullshit.
The people I am by far the most angry at are people with a platform who abuse their platform. The Cumminses, the Malones, the Lawries, the Weinsteins, the Korys, the plethora of C and D list celebrities who have seen a way to revive flagging careers and make themselves ārelevantā in the new decentralised media age. I donāt know how they sleep.
In many cases, on top of a big wad of cash, probably.
Everything flows from cases.
You say that AY.4.2 is āless virulentā? Where is the evidence to suggest this?
Go back to last Christmas. On December 1st we started out with 200 odd cases. Within five weeks we were hitting, what, six or seven thousand cases a day?
Which of youse predicted that? None of yis, to the best of my recollection.
This is key. Hospitalisations, ICU and deaths are a function of this. If we have astronomical cases then the others are impacted, even with vaccination.
Yet youāre a flu denier.
Breathtaking hypocrisy.
We have 1.25 million unvaccinated people in this country. In a no restrictions situation (and weāre reasonably close to that now) all those 1.25 million people can be considered likely to get the virus at some point.
If the vaccines are for argumentās sake 80% effective against people getting the virus, thatās 20% of the 3.75 million vaccinated who can be considered at serious risk of to getting it. Thatās 750k.
If the vaccines are for argumentās sake 60% effective against getting the virus, thatās 40% of the vaccinated who can be considered at serious risk of getting the virus. Thatās 1.5 million.
If the vaccines go down to 40% effective against getting the virus, thatās 2.25 million vaccinated at serious risk of getting the virus.
Not all of those people will get the virus, maybe less than half of them will, maybe a quarter will. But if even a fifth of them do, we have a big problem.
And one that is likely to go round and round and round if we donāt get properly serious about it.
If the problem goes round and round and round like a Mexican wave, that will have catastrophic effects on society.
And itās not enough to say let it rip. Thatās base simplism which like all base Trump and Brexit style simplism pays no heed to the reality of the effects that simplism causes.
Woah man. No need for that
Very true.
Iād only trim them back when I can hold the tuft between thumb & index finger easily. Nose Platts a step too far just yet?
Why would you use a photo of Martin Lawrence dressed as a large woman as opposed to an actual large lady?
A bizarre post.
I see you have the Queens Bhoy sniffing incessantly around you, massive compliment in a strange way I suppose. 
this is an absolute fucking joke.
Lets provide free antigen tests for fully vaccinated TDs, but lets make families pay for antigen tests for school children who cannot be vaccinated. A shower of greedy fucking wankers. Extracting as much as they possibly can, doctoring their mileage sheets to get a few hundred quid extra, looking for as many expenses as they possibly can but yet will go talk shite about people on the dole or looking for PUP payments. Its no shock, but in the name of fuck did they think that this would go down well. And theyāll wait until cases are back down again and the demand for the test equipment wont be as high and think they are right lads for subsidising it then.
The optics, the fucking optics. Wankers.
I think itās time to stop blaming unvaccinated, lockdowns, masks and vaccines and just start using common fucking sense again.
- keep a bit of distance
- lower contacts if possible
- avoid poorly ventilated crowded areas
- practice decent fucking hand & cough hygiene
It worked before 
Thereās a lovely sense of irony here that would only pass over the Village Idiotās head.
Iād do a little search on his posts to highlight the no of posts he has directed at myself in the past day or two (which Iāve not bothered to reply to as itās pointless engaging with a guy who canāt string more than 3 sentences together) but heās one of those bedwetters who has to hide his posts from the public.
Ah still itās nice that he makes up an imaginary child to go along with his imaginary wife
Shocking messaging.
The actual messaging on Covid recently is hopeless. The constant rhetoric of case numbers is driving people away now.
Proper advice or messaging on new variants and tell tale signs would make more sense.
Telling communities if case numbers in their area are an issue.
Advising families of new symptoms in kids perhaps? Local family to me have an 9 year old with Vomiting Bug symptoms now testing positive.
People trotting out the line Iāve no temperature so I couldnāt have Covid etc needs to be addressed.
Oh dear
On a call here with colleagues from Austria. They are going into a hard lockdown again next week. Some of the regions have it in place already but itās going country-wide next week.
The most famous Austrian only had one ball so itās not surprising they are wetting the bed.
GUBU.
Iām sure the government will be seething at this, I donāt know what the fuck the houses of the Oireachtas were thinking.
We live in a kakistocracy of entitled cunts
They wont give one little shit until people start mouthing off about it. If they did care, it wouldnt have even been a consideration to have a vote. TDs, for the most part, particularly FFG types, are a greedy shower of pricks who take as much as they possibly can. If they were asked this, you can be sure they would want their free testing, they are very important you see.
The likes of this affects the most vulnerable in our society. Those living on borderline poverty, in cramped unventilated homes, where there may be a lot of children going to school and the parents cant afford to have them at home. So at least by ensuring the tests are available to them, they can have peace of mind sending children into school and help stop the spread which going by recent numbers, is the largest cohort of confirmed cases. But no, the greedy shower of cunts want to protect themselves, being vaccinated, before unvaccinated kids.
Antigen testing kits should be available to all parents on dole, minimum wage income or PUP payments. That shouldnt even be a consideration, it should just happen. They can follow on with other ranges of parents and affordability after that if needs be and make it more widespread. But a vaccinated TD should be one of the last on the list.
