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To Mask or not to two - Mask Megathread cont.

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    #2432
    weldoninhio
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,311 ✭✭✭✭weldoninhio


    robinph wrote: »
    So cases spread in meat factories where people were in close contact in conditions the virus likes and if people didn't need to eat the facilities would have closed down for 14 days to stop the spread... But there is no virus and we're all imaging it.

    And schools are responsible for the spread of cases and the rise in numbers rather than homes, pubs, restaurants. But we should open pubs so that you can have a drink as that's more important than children getting an education, and it's still just an imagined virus as despite it being spread by schools it's also made up.

    No idea what your point is, and I don't think you can remember from the start of one sentence to the end of it what you are trying to claim.

    We export 80% of our meat. No one was gonna starve by shutting down processing plants with Covid outbreaks.


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    #2433
    Away With The Fairies
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,077 ✭✭✭Away With The Fairies


    weldoninhio wrote: »
    Masks are a visual trigger to “be scared”. You’ve Dr Death with graphs complaining that the general population aren’t worried enough about the bug. People shove them into their pockets/bags, they don’t wash them at 60 degrees daily, they touch them constantly. If they weren’t mandatory you’d have about 20% of people wearing them. The majority wear them because they have to.

    How exactly do you know what people do in their own homes and what gets washed or not? You don't, so stop making up things.

    You still haven't came back to say what qualifications you hold for dismissing the scientists.


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    #2434
    Seanergy
    Registered Users Posts: 1,446 ✭✭✭Seanergy


    weldoninhio wrote: »
    Masks are a visual trigger to “be scared”.

    You might be stuck on holloween mode.


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    #2435
    odyssey06
    Registered Users Posts: 29,348 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    weldoninhio wrote: »
    Masks are a visual trigger to “be scared”. You’ve Dr Death with graphs complaining that the general population aren’t worried enough about the bug

    Conspiracy theory nonsense without any connection to reality. Dr Death ffs?
    Are hand sanitiser dispensers part of the same phobia strategy?

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



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    #2436
    Tork
    Registered Users Posts: 3,402 ✭✭✭Tork


    If somebody is manky and doesn't wash their hands and wears rancid masks, I honestly don't give a toss. All I care about is that they pull it on over their nose and mouth when they're out and about and don't shower other people with their droplets. That is what it is about - protecting other people. But yawn, you know that. We're blue in the face telling you that masks are for protecting other people. I hope you've sanitized that fake letter you planned to get to feign your exemption from mask wearing. It must be well pawed by now.


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    #2437
    NovemberWren
    Registered Users Posts: 374 ✭✭NovemberWren


    i am not sure that it is at all necessary to wear an actual mask; i thought the mandate was to wear just a 'face covering'.

    scarf would be probably just fine?


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    #2438
    Seanergy
    Registered Users Posts: 1,446 ✭✭✭Seanergy


    Why do you think it is not all that necessary to wear an actual mask? No need for a lesson in sematics, btw.

    Wearing a scarf is a sloppy attitude right now, don't you think?


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    #2439
    NovemberWren
    Registered Users Posts: 374 ✭✭NovemberWren


    Seanergy wrote: »
    Why do you think it is not all that necessary to wear an actual mask? No need for a lesson in sematics, btw.

    Wearing a scarf is a sloppy attitude right now, don't you think?


    not really, [that mask thing is just awful]. but you are right at "right now".

    Post-Christmas this may change. Even Bill Gates is now meidered. Amazing the extent to which people conform.


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    #2440
    Seanergy
    Registered Users Posts: 1,446 ✭✭✭Seanergy


    Wearing a mask ain't what I would do for kicks but how they serve to function as an aid in our toolbag against a real virus is amazing.

    What's truly awful is brainwashed heads talking Bill Gates Bolloxology.


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    #2441
    weldoninhio
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,311 ✭✭✭✭weldoninhio


    Tork wrote: »
    If somebody is manky and doesn't wash their hands and wears rancid masks, I honestly don't give a toss. All I care about is that they pull it on over their nose and mouth when they're out and about and don't shower other people with their droplets. That is what it is about - protecting other people. But yawn, you know that. We're blue in the face telling you that masks are for protecting other people. I hope you've sanitized that fake letter you planned to get to feign your exemption from mask wearing. It must be well pawed by now.

    Never needed it. I've never been stopped by the Gardai, the only people with the authority to ask for proof of exemption. Must be tearing people apart inside that I don't have to wear a mask, I haven't mentioned it since they became mandatory yet it's constantly brought up.


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    #2442
    weldoninhio
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,311 ✭✭✭✭weldoninhio


    NovemberWren wrote: »
    i am not sure that it is at all necessary to wear an actual mask; i thought the mandate was to wear just a 'face covering'.

    scarf would be probably just fine?

    You see quite a few people using scarfs or snoods as face coverings, perfectly acceptable according to the govt rules. Same with visors.


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    #2443
    robinph
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,094 Mod ✭✭✭✭robinph


    weldoninhio wrote: »
    Never needed it. I've never been stopped by the Gardai, the only people with the authority to ask for proof of exemption. Must be tearing people apart inside that I don't have to wear a mask, I haven't mentioned it since they became mandatory yet it's constantly brought up.

    You chose not to wear a mask for no reason other than because you like to think you are winding people up. You're not winding anyone up, you're just making them think you are an arse.

    You don't have any exemption.


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    #2444
    Sconsey
    Registered Users Posts: 1,571 ✭✭✭Sconsey


    weldoninhio wrote: »
    Never needed it. I've never been stopped by the Gardai, the only people with the authority to ask for proof of exemption. Must be tearing people apart inside that I don't have to wear a mask, I haven't mentioned it since they became mandatory yet it's constantly brought up.

    I comes up so often because it proves you are a liar, so everyone needs to be informed when reading anything you post. Liars are going to lie.


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    #2445
    weldoninhio
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,311 ✭✭✭✭weldoninhio


    robinph wrote: »
    You chose not to wear a mask for no reason other than because you like to think you are winding people up. You're not winding anyone up, you're just making them think you are an arse.

    You don't have any exemption.

    I also don't have anything printed on my forehead. As far as anyone in the real world knows, i'm exempt and not one person, so far, has gotten wound up about it. In real life, no one cares. No one is/was/or has been wound up.

    As I said, I haven't mentioned it since May (i think) as a mod accused me of trying to wind people up. I won't be mentioning it again after this. Would be nice if those wound up in here would do the same.


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    #2446
    robinph
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,094 Mod ✭✭✭✭robinph


    weldoninhio wrote: »
    Never needed it. I've never been stopped by the Gardai, the only people with the authority to ask for proof of exemption. Must be tearing people apart inside that I don't have to wear a mask, I haven't mentioned it since they became mandatory yet it's constantly brought up.
    weldoninhio wrote: »
    I also don't have anything printed on my forehead. As far as anyone in the real world knows, i'm exempt and not one person, so far, has gotten wound up about it. In real life, no one cares. No one is/was/or has been wound up.

    As I said, I haven't mentioned it since May (i think) as a mod accused me of trying to wind people up. I won't be mentioning it again after this. Would be nice if those wound up in here would do the same.

    So which is it then, you are hoping to wind people up, or not? You can't even keep your story straight for an hour. In one post you are claiming to be trying to wind people up, then a couple later saying that it never happens and nobody gives a damn about you.


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    #2447
    Seanergy
    Registered Users Posts: 1,446 ✭✭✭Seanergy


    weldoninhio wrote: »
    You see quite a few people using scarfs or snoods as face coverings, perfectly acceptable according to the govt rules. Same with visors.

    Acceptable for the moment, just like your fake mask exemption letter you have primed in your back pocket for AGS.

    Your building a strong case for the rules to be changed, keep posting.


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    #2448
    weldoninhio
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,311 ✭✭✭✭weldoninhio


    robinph wrote: »
    So which is it then, you are hoping to wind people up, or not? You can't even keep your story straight for an hour. In one post you are claiming to be trying to wind people up, then a couple later saying that it never happens and nobody gives a damn about you.

    I never claimed "to be trying to wind people up", I said a mod claimed it, here it is in black and white. As I said, I haven't mentioned it since May (i think) "as a mod accused me of trying to wind people up.". How about being truthful rather than deceitful?

    As i said I haven't mentioned it since May, others keep bringing it up on Boards. In real life it hasn't been an issue at all.


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    #2449
    weldoninhio
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,311 ✭✭✭✭weldoninhio


    Seanergy wrote: »
    Acceptable for the moment, just like your fake mask exemption letter you have primed in your back pocket for AGS.

    Your building a strong case for the rules to be changed, keep posting.

    Useless as they are, I can't see NPHET making policy decisions based on Boards. The only rule changes coming will be making masks non-mandatory in the near future. Covid is pretty much over in the minds of the majority.


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    #2450
    Boggles
    Registered Users Posts: 39,981 ✭✭✭✭Boggles


    weldoninhio wrote: »
    I also don't have anything printed on my forehead. As far as anyone in the real world knows, i'm exempt and not one person, so far, has gotten wound up about it. In real life, no one cares. No one is/was/or has been wound up.

    Meh, I don't believe you falsified a mental illness to get an exemption.

    I firmly believe you are wearing a mask like everyone else where appropriate.


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    #2451
    Richard Hillman
    Registered Users Posts: 12,033 ✭✭✭✭Richard Hillman


    Realistically, how long do you think Holohan and Co will be insisting on these masks? Are we going to be wearing masks into the summer? Will they be swinging their dicks next year and the year after about hospitals being overcapacity with winter flu and insisting on masks in shops and public transport?

    Is there even any stone cold evidence that masks have worked?


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    #2452
    robinph
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,094 Mod ✭✭✭✭robinph


    weldoninhio wrote: »
    I never claimed "to be trying to wind people up", I said a mod claimed it, here it is in black and white. As I said, I haven't mentioned it since May (i think) "as a mod accused me of trying to wind people up.". How about being truthful rather than deceitful?

    As i said I haven't mentioned it since May, others keep bringing it up on Boards. In real life it hasn't been an issue at all.

    Explain your motivation for this comment then?
    weldoninhio wrote: »
    ...Must be tearing people apart inside that I don't have to wear a mask...


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    #2453
    Boggles
    Registered Users Posts: 39,981 ✭✭✭✭Boggles


    Richard Hillman wrote: »
    Realistically, how long do you think Holohan and Co will be insisting on these masks?

    No one knows.
    Richard Hillman wrote: »
    Are we going to be wearing masks into the summer?

    No one knows
    Richard Hillman wrote: »
    Will they be swinging their dicks next year and the year

    No
    Richard Hillman wrote: »
    after about hospitals being overcapacity with winter flu and insisting on masks in shops and public transport?

    No.
    Richard Hillman wrote: »
    Is there even any stone cold evidence that masks have worked?

    Yes


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    #2454
    CalamariFritti
    Registered Users Posts: 5,586 ✭✭✭CalamariFritti


    Boggles wrote: »
    Richard Hillman wrote:
    Is there even any stone cold evidence that masks have worked?
    Yes

    Is there? I'd like to see that if you got something handy. Thanks.


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    #2455
    Boggles
    Registered Users Posts: 39,981 ✭✭✭✭Boggles


    CalamariFritti wrote: »
    Is there? I'd like to see that if you got something handy. Thanks.

    Done a 1000 times on thread.

    Fill your boots.


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    #2456
    CalamariFritti
    Registered Users Posts: 5,586 ✭✭✭CalamariFritti


    Boggles wrote: »
    Done a 1000 times on thread.

    Fill your boots.

    In other words you dont have any?


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    #2457
    Boggles
    Registered Users Posts: 39,981 ✭✭✭✭Boggles


    CalamariFritti wrote: »
    In other words you dont have any?

    Nope.

    And you have contributed enough to these thread to know that.


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    #2458
    weldoninhio
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,311 ✭✭✭✭weldoninhio


    robinph wrote: »
    Explain your motivation for this comment then?

    If you're looking to goad me into a response that'll have me carded or banned, it's not gonna work. Have a great day.


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    #2459
    robinph
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,094 Mod ✭✭✭✭robinph


    weldoninhio wrote: »
    If you're looking to goad me into a response that'll have me carded or banned, it's not gonna work. Have a great day.

    We'll take it as read then and you are posting on here about your lack of reason to be exempt, yet carrying a letter you faked regarding an exemption, and your claims of going around not wearing a mask (no idea if that actually happens or not) are purely for the purposes of attempting to wind people up as you have clearly stated here. Just requoting again for posterity and in case you forgot what you said five minutes ago:
    weldoninhio wrote: »
    Never needed it. I've never been stopped by the Gardai, the only people with the authority to ask for proof of exemption. Must be tearing people apart inside that I don't have to wear a mask, I haven't mentioned it since they became mandatory yet it's constantly brought up.


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    #2460
    Seanergy
    Registered Users Posts: 1,446 ✭✭✭Seanergy


    weldoninhio wrote: »
    Useless as they are, I can't see NPHET making policy decisions based on Boards.

    The only rule changes coming will be making masks non-mandatory in the near future. Covid is pretty much over in the minds of the majority.[/QUOTE]

    You misread me, you are making a strong case for the rules to be changed on boards, why should genuine contributers have to put up with liars?

    Maybe the tagline should be changed, Boards.ie now ye're lying.


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    #2461
    weldoninhio
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,311 ✭✭✭✭weldoninhio


    Seanergy wrote: »
    The only rule changes coming will be making masks non-mandatory in the near future. Covid is pretty much over in the minds of the majority.

    You misread me, you are making a strong case for the rules to be changed on boards, why should genuine contributers have to put up with liars?

    Maybe the tagline should be changed, Boards.ie now ye're lying.[/QUOTE]

    I believe there is a forum for suggestions like that. It's completely off topic for on here, so I won't be getting into a conversation on it here.


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