But covid regulations, rules, vaccines etc etc were so confusing, inconsistent, downright ridiculous they drove the bangers of heads to bang their heads like theyd never banged before and they havenât stopped banging since.
I remember thinking at the very start id never seen the country or world so united
The social dynamics of the whole thing were fascinating to watch. The virtue signallers, the contrarians, the obedient sheep and a few scientists thrown into the mix.
None of the #WeCanBeZero lot announced here. I was looking forward to Julien Mercille getting his maps of Ireland out again with exclusion zones marked down.
Who were the âcelebrityâ experts again? Thankfully I paid little attention during most of the thing and didnât get into the weeds as much as others.
Sam McConkey
Aoife McLysaght
Luke OâNeill
TomĂĄs Ryan?
They are the only few that I remember. There was the screaming Mary architect one on Twitter, as it was at the time. Another lad from Maynooth University. Were all these getting paid by the interview then?
Orla Hegarty was the architect who said we should be retrofitting every building for clean air before we considered reopening. She took a long break from Twitter after the reopening when she lost the plot.
Gerry Killeen is the one who described children as either land mines or grenades.
Aoife McLysaght was the one who used her point of reference of the impact on business as her click and collect of books from Raven Books in Blackrock.
Sam McConkey is the one who was originally vehemently against any form of lockdown but had a heel turn worthy of professional wrestling as he called for Zero Covid and closed borders.
TĂłmas Ryan called for â Panzer-style public health measuresâ, a rather weird allusion.
As above, Geography lecturer Julian Mercile was plotting circles of no go zones around the border and claiming public health figures could do what the British government couldnât do for decades. Maybe with Panzer tactics.
Anthony Staines just generally had a meltdown as it progressed and things reopened.
There was a guy I remember comparing the reopening following the Omicron variant being shown to be a cod comparing the celebration of that to women in Afghanistan celebrating the fall of the Taliban.
Luke OâNeil was smart as while he got involved in the bubble ball antics with Claire Byrne and attended a few ISAG events, generally kept himself one step removed from them so that he wouldnât be tarred by the end.
The Soc Dems, some Labour members, People before Profit, Catherine Connolly, the Tortoise Shack and a few others got very onboard with the illiberal policies of Zero Covid.
It was absolutely mental. Hopefully it all gets brought up at the round table.
The schools re opening in January 22 was the turning point. A huge amount of people even outside those total lunatics thought weâd be digging mass graves and it was the end of society as we knew it. Within a week everything was back to normal.