Rubbish. It truly is risible still to be talking about vitamin D (and Ivermectin) nearly four years later.
Besides, you are a farmer in rural Ireland. What is relatively easy for you to achieve remains a completely different matter for someone living in Belfast, Dublin or London â or in any substantial urban environment. The narcissism involved in your take is equally risible.
But I note you have silently accepted the hypocrisy involved in your position on lockdown. You have never thought through the nature of your supposed belief in lockdown. You wanted non lockdown. Fair enough but the reality is that this step would have involved criminalizing people â and this group would have been a really large one â who refused travel and mixing. If the government did not criminalize such people, the government would effectively be operating a lockdown.
You need to think about these matters a lot more before you pronounce on them.
That point is not the point I am making. My point is that not locking down would have raised torturously complex legal issues. Would it have been acceptable to criminalize and/or to sack people who refused to travel? Because that reality would have been the flipside of non lockdown â and there is no way around this recognition.
I have always agreed about various bodiesâ incompetence and/or corruption. But that issue is a separate one to whether there was, as of March 2020, an alternative to lockdown.
Itâs unknowable. The effect of not locking down hard, but in a targeted way would need to be balanced against the adverse effects of hard lockdown by QUALY over a period of a decade or more. As there is no control sample other than Sweden, which is a poor control, but perhaps not completely invalid, weâll never really know.
It does amuse me so that the ungracious and the incapable here have this fixation about the fact that I like old and quirky public houses. Have done so since I first took a drink in Buddy Carrollâs of Thomastown in 1984. My tastes are exactly the same, nearly 40 years on. So what⌠I would have thought the same taste is also true of many here and of many middleaged men in general.
I will be in one or two public houses tonight after a book launch. And my points about lockdown and Covid will still be watertight, whatever I do or do not drink.
Popular with social media junkies, people who follow ffg religiously, twitter sock puppet accounts and journalists for publications that where only still open due to the government funding and ad revenue provided by the HSE telling you to social distancing together to stay safe.
Saying that Johnsons comments are truly awful. Hes a cunt regardless
So now you are withdrawing the lie that you did not state in summer 2020 that we were âdone with Covidâ. Well and good. You admit now to saying so but wish to claim you then meant exactly the opposite of what the phrase âdone with Covidâ would normally be felt, semantically, to indicate. Well and not so good.
Whatever understanding I have of whatever is still way in excess of any understanding you possess, because of the sovereign advantages I will always possess as regards understanding anything.
I would also say your average old style pub contains a varied body of opinion and certainly a body of opinion far more healthy and far more educational than right wing thought bubbles. But there you are. I do not want my friends and acquaintances necessarily to agree with me.
This is typically binary and simplistic. The schools should have been openâŚbeing a farmer in rural Ireland would have made no difference. Besides farmers continued to farm- cattle markets etc
Youre indulging in big long windy posts that all boil down to one sledgehammer of a potato of an epic dull idea. I have absolutely no intention of âdealingâ such obstinate turpitude. Youâre welcome to your spud of a lockdown.
