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Do you watch RTE News for your daily updates on Covid?

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    #62
    PsychoPete
    Registered Users Posts: 8,836 ✭✭✭PsychoPete


    You'd be sick of the constant talk about it, at this stage I just zone out and have no interest


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    #63
    Pelezico
    Registered Users Posts: 681 ✭✭✭Pelezico


    The only way..says the RTE cameraman as he flaunts his own lack of observance of the rules.

    It sickened my hole..listening to him


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    #64
    Don2012
    Closed Accounts Posts: 367 ✭✭Don2012


    RicketyCricket wrote: »
    Don how many threads are you going to start today to try and get your conspiracy theories across?
    Are you Gemma in disguise?

    Who is Gemma??
    Keep using "conspiracy theorist" as an excuse.


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    #65
    pgj2015
    Registered Users Posts: 9,207 ✭✭✭pgj2015


    dhaughton99 wrote: »
    I get all mine from Facebook.



    Apparently its actually the hand sanitizer gel that is spreading the disease. pass it on. ;)


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    #66
    AllForIt
    Registered Users Posts: 8,393 ✭✭✭AllForIt


    Don2012 wrote: »
    Do you get all your information and updates from RTE on Covid?

    Absolutely not. In fact quite the opposite. Where there is some change, lifting of restrictions, masks in shops, I cotton on pretty quick just by personal observation.

    My point is I'm not following it at all. It's something in the background in my mind that I know will diminish eventually. I''m pointedly not getting hysterical about it, I have no personal health issues of relevance and I see no reason to get wound up about it, as if to virtue signal I care about others peoples lives, to a highlighted degree. I don't think it's either natural or beneficial to do so, quite the opposite. Will do on one's personal mental health any good to be getting all wound up about it.


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    #67
    Don2012
    Closed Accounts Posts: 367 ✭✭Don2012


    pjohnson wrote: »
    Bitchute now is it?

    Agreed mo chara.


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    #68
    pjohnson
    Registered Users Posts: 23,542 ✭✭✭✭pjohnson


    Don2012 wrote: »
    Agreed mo chara.

    So predictable. You'd think "critical thinkers" would be capable of independent thought, yet they just just lap up any conspiracy theorist's shíte as being DA TrUTh.


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    #69
    Don2012
    Closed Accounts Posts: 367 ✭✭Don2012


    AllForIt wrote: »
    Absolutely not. In fact quite the opposite. Where there is some change, lifting of restrictions, masks in shops, I cotton on pretty quick just by personal observation.

    My point is I'm not following it at all. It's something in the background in my mind that I know will diminish eventually. I''m pointedly not getting hysterical about it, I have no personal health issues of relevance and I see no reason to get wound up about it, as if to virtue signal I care about others peoples lives, to a highlighted degree. I don't think it's either natural or beneficial to do so, quite the opposite. Will do on one's personal mental health any good to be getting all wound up about it.

    Great way to look at things, thank you.


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    #70
    Don2012
    Closed Accounts Posts: 367 ✭✭Don2012


    pjohnson wrote: »
    So predictable. You'd think "critical thinkers" would be capable of independent thought, yet they just just lap up any conspiracy theorist's shíte as being DA TrUTh.

    I think alot of things are being censored now, many have moved over to bitchute for free speech etc.


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    #71
    Don2012
    Closed Accounts Posts: 367 ✭✭Don2012


    PsychoPete wrote: »
    You'd be sick of the constant talk about it, at this stage I just zone out and have no interest

    It's not good for a person's mental health and wellbeing. That's for sure.


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    #72
    Don2012
    Closed Accounts Posts: 367 ✭✭Don2012


    Metroid diorteM wrote: »
    I don't trust them as much any more.

    I come for covid details but theres usually some left leaning agenda thrown in. Even the guardian is not as bad.

    Dr John Campbell on youtube is a good source.

    I used to get my news from the journal until I realised they were liberal to the core.


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    #73
    RicketyCricket
    Registered Users Posts: 732 ✭✭✭RicketyCricket


    Don2012 wrote: »
    Who is Gemma??
    Keep using "conspiracy theorist" as an excuse.

    Christ you might actually be Gemma with a reply like that.

    Ah the random picture from the internet to try and prove a point. As always it fails.


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    #74
    Don2012
    Closed Accounts Posts: 367 ✭✭Don2012


    RicketyCricket wrote: »
    Christ you might actually be Gemma with a reply like that.

    Ah the random picture from the internet to try and prove a point. As always it fails.

    Who is this person?? I picked a picture that was perfect for you little obedient liberals.


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    #75
    Jim Gazebo
    Registered Users Posts: 2,355 ✭✭✭Jim Gazebo


    I try to stay away from it now unless it's local news that may affect me. These daily updates shouldn't be pumped out so high profile in my opinion. Anxiety and stress it's causing the vulnerable is unreal. Are we going to spend the rest of our days getting a daily update?!?


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    #76
    Oranage2
    Registered Users Posts: 11,128 ✭✭✭✭Oranage2


    Usually pop on boards around 6ish to get my daily dose. ACitizenErased does a great job just posting the figures and the breakdowns without all the waffle. It's also fun to hear the it's fine it's only a cluster group vs the we're doomed groop debating.


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    #77
    Wanderer78
    Registered Users Posts: 29,319 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


    Don2012 wrote:
    I used to get my news from the journal until I realised they were liberal to the core.


    'Liberal to the core', ffs! Your listening to too much American nonsense now, walk away from it, our potentially face going full retard


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    #78
    super_furry
    Registered Users Posts: 27,322 ✭✭✭✭super_furry


    Yeah mostly. It's the most reliable and trustworthy.


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    #79
    Mav11
    Registered Users Posts: 2,243 ✭✭✭Mav11


    Yes RTE. Reliable with good analysis.


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    #80
    timetogo1
    Registered Users Posts: 862 ✭✭✭timetogo1


    I get about 60% of my info on Covid from RTE. The rest I get from UK TV, and various other print (web) outlets, including boards (but obviously many of the posters on Boards are way more biased one way or the other).

    I think RTE is biased in about as much as everybody is biased, that's human nature, but they seem to try to present the facts without the hyperbole or agendas that you see in other media outlets.
    I don't agree with the BBCs method of having to have an opposing viewpoint no matter how fringe it is. That hasn't done the UK well over the last few years.


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    #81
    pgj2015
    Registered Users Posts: 9,207 ✭✭✭pgj2015


    super_furry wrote: »
    Yeah mostly. It's the most reliable and trustworthy.




    Good one.


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    #82
    washman3
    Registered Users Posts: 3,646 ✭✭✭washman3


    Pelezico wrote: »
    The RTE guys love covid.

    During lockdown I went for my 2km walk and walked across bridge on M50....only to encounter an RTE cameraman taking shots of cars driving along M50.

    We have to stop people travelling he told me. It's the only way.

    The only way I thought...what are you doing on his bridge pontificating about the only way.


    You should have pushed the d###head over the edge...!!


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    #83
    MadYaker
    Registered Users Posts: 12,211 ✭✭✭✭MadYaker


    I get my info from RTE, Irish Times, Wall Street Journal, Reuters, BBC and sometimes I go to reddit for more American coverage. But I don't check updates every day. Oh and Dr John Campbell on youtube, he does what the media are supposed to be doing.


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    #84
    Don2012
    Closed Accounts Posts: 367 ✭✭Don2012


    Wanderer78 wrote: »
    'Liberal to the core', ffs! Your listening to too much American nonsense now, walk away from it, our potentially face going full retard

    I don't listen to American nonsense. I'm only interested in what's happening in my own country. Can I have an opinion??


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    #85
    Jim_Hodge
    Registered Users Posts: 10,659 ✭✭✭✭Jim_Hodge


    Don2012 wrote: »
    I don't listen to American nonsense. I'm only interested in what's happening in my own country. Can I have an opinion??

    What nonsense do you listen to, as you clearly get your views and news from somewhere? You ask for opinions, how about giving a view. Everywhere mentioned has faults, it seems, so where is the factual unbiased news available?

    Only having an interest in you own country, btw, leads to a very restricted and insular view of life and situations.


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    #86
    Don2012
    Closed Accounts Posts: 367 ✭✭Don2012


    Jim_Hodge wrote: »
    What nonsense do you listen to, as you clearly get your views and news from somewhere? You ask for opinions, how about giving a view. Everywhere mentioned has faults, it seems, so where is the factual unbiased news available?

    Only having an interest in you own country, btw, leads to a very restricted and insular view of life and situations.

    Keep it up, you left leaning bullies on here attack any chance you get. An opinion that is different from your own is silenced and banned, use are like voltures waiting to attack! Grow up. Respect opinions that are different from your own.


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    #87
    Don2012
    Closed Accounts Posts: 367 ✭✭Don2012


    Jim_Hodge wrote: »
    What nonsense do you listen to, as you clearly get your views and news from somewhere? You ask for opinions, how about giving a view. Everywhere mentioned has faults, it seems, so where is the factual unbiased news available?

    Only having an interest in you own country, btw, leads to a very restricted and insular view of life and situations.

    What gives you the right to attack me and brush MY opinion off as "nonsense"!!?
    Who do you think you are??


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    #88
    banie01
    Registered Users Posts: 16,709 ✭✭✭✭banie01


    Don2012 wrote: »
    I don't listen to American nonsense. I'm only interested in what's happening in my own country. Can I have an opinion??

    So with that in mind?
    Where do you obtain your data?

    The Irish case numbers, infection rate, hospitalisations and so on?


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    #89
    Jim_Hodge
    Registered Users Posts: 10,659 ✭✭✭✭Jim_Hodge


    Don2012 wrote: »
    What gives you the right to attack me and brush MY opinion off as "nonsense"!!?
    Who do you think you are??

    You referred to outlets used by other people as nonsense!

    I asked, more than once , the simple question; if you find fault with all the media outlets so far mentioned then where do you get unbiased and balanced news yourself? It's not a hard question and is most definitely not an attack.


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    #90
    Don2012
    Closed Accounts Posts: 367 ✭✭Don2012


    banie01 wrote: »
    So with that in mind?
    Where do you obtain your data?

    The Irish case numbers, infection rate, hospitalisations and so on?

    Crawl back under the bed and keep your muzzle on, good lad. Doesn't take long for the gang to all start once one crawls out.


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    #91
    Jim_Hodge
    Registered Users Posts: 10,659 ✭✭✭✭Jim_Hodge


    Don2012 wrote: »
    Keep it up, you left leaning bullies on here attack any chance you get. An opinion that is different from your own is silenced and banned, use are like voltures waiting to attack! Grow up. Respect opinions that are different from your own.

    Left leaning??? That is laughable. You have no idea what my political persuasions are.

    How about just answering the question? You haven't giving an opinion yet except to knock the sources others have stated.


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