Madness of the last nine months

punisher5112

More will die due to not getting treatment for other issues.

I'm now waiting 5 weeks to see a dentist with a broken tooth and in pain. Most likely will have to be pulled now it's that bad.

893bet

Samsonsmasher wrote: »

2000 have died - allegedly from COVID - which means the death toll nationally is 0.03 percent.

We face hundreds of thousands unemployed and potentially homelessness in the tens of thousands a cataclysm for small businesses and tens of billions of debt.

I am tending to agree a little but the death toll would have been far higher if it was left unchecked.

There are other countries that decided on low/no restrictions and had to row back. I think balance is the key and we are a little too risk adverse but our health service is frail from the 20 years of bloated mismanagement so caution is needed.

There's a thread in the Covid-19 sub-forum here asking whether people will take the vaccine. Most voted yes, but as far as I can see from the replies they all take the view that it's the responsible thing to do or they will take it because they want restrictions to end.

Nobody said that they'll take the vaccine because they're afraid of dying as so many others have died around them. That would be a common answer, if not the most common, if there really was a highly lethal virus going around.

If the disease was as deadly as they say we wouldn't need the obedient people frowning at the sceptics for "not doing the right thing." We wouldn't need Garda checkpoints. The people at RTÉ who put on concerned faces and tell us about this deadly virus wouldn't be hugging one another at farewell parties. Only the poor would be left in the cities, and the middle class would have taken refuge in the countryside. Everyone would be desperate to get the vaccine for fear of death, not because they want restrictions to end or because it makes them feel holy.

893bet

punisher5112 wrote: »

More will die due to not getting treatment for other issues.

I'm now waiting 5 weeks to see a dentist with a broken tooth and in pain. Most likely will have to be pulled now it's that bad.

I fear for the amount of cancer that won’t be detected until it’s too late.

Gervais08

km991148 wrote: »

It really is a being a cnut twice over - once for not bothering to wear a mask and the secondly adding to the stigma associated with mental health making it more difficult for those with genuine mental health problems (i.e. increasing the likelihood of being called out in public for not masking etc).

You don’t get to decide who has mental health issues and who don’t though.

MrMusician18

MontgomeryClift wrote: »

There's a thread in the Covid-19 sub-forum here asking whether people will take the vaccine. Most voted yes, but as far as I can see from the replies they all take the view that it's the responsible thing to do or they will take it because they want restrictions to end.

Nobody said that they'll take the vaccine because they're afraid of dying as so many others have died around them. That would be a common answer, if not the most common, if there really was a pandemic.

If there really was a pandemic we wouldn't need the obedient people frowning at the sceptics for "not doing the right thing." We wouldn't need Garda checkpoints. The people at RTÉ who put on concerned faces and tell us about this deadly virus wouldn't be hugging one another at farewell parties. Only the poor would be left in the cities, and the middle class would have taken refuge in the countryside. Everyone would be desperate to get the vaccine for fear of death, not because they want restrictions to end or because it makes them feel holy.

I'll take the vaccine because:
A) I don't want to get sick
It's the right thing to do, I want to protect those that are more vulnerable that are likely to get a more serious bout of the illness than I.
C) I want restrictions to end.

HBC08

punisher5112 wrote: »

More will die due to not getting treatment for other issues.

I'm now waiting 5 weeks to see a dentist with a broken tooth and in pain. Most likely will have to be pulled now it's that bad.

I been to the dentist twice since Sept (one of those times was for a broken tooth)
Why are you waiting 5 weeks? Maybe try a different dentist.

is_that_so

ToddDameron wrote: »

Learning how many of my fellow Irish people can't be trusted to do the right thing in times of crisis.

Learning how intolerant people can be in times of crisis. A lot of what happened from March to June was because we were unprepared.

is_that_so

punisher5112 wrote: »

More will die due to not getting treatment for other issues.

I'm now waiting 5 weeks to see a dentist with a broken tooth and in pain. Most likely will have to be pulled now it's that bad.

Had my dentist call me to arrange an appointment and I know someone who underwent treatment. That sounds urgent and you need to get on to them or, as suggested, change dentist.

micosoft

CinemaGuy45 wrote: »

It was from this Clown.

https://www.independent.ie/world-news/coronavirus/up-to-85000-irish-people-could-die-from-coronavirus-in-worst-case-scenario-taoiseach-indicates-as-three-more-diagnosed-39029363.html

And not the "clown" that seems incapable of connecting the dots between face nappies and other steps the Government took to prevent that outcome?

Gentlemanne

MontgomeryClift wrote: »

There's a thread in the Covid-19 sub-forum here asking whether people will take the vaccine. Most voted yes, but as far as I can see from the replies they all take the view that it's the responsible thing to do or they will take it because they want restrictions to end.

Nobody said that they'll take the vaccine because they're afraid of dying as so many others have died around them. That would be a common answer, if not the most common, if there really was a pandemic.

If there really was a pandemic we wouldn't need the obedient people frowning at the sceptics for "not doing the right thing." We wouldn't need Garda checkpoints. The people at RTÉ who put on concerned faces and tell us about this deadly virus wouldn't be hugging one another at farewell parties. Only the poor would be left in the cities, and the middle class would have taken refuge in the countryside. Everyone would be desperate to get the vaccine for fear of death, not because they want restrictions to end or because it makes them feel holy.

Yeah man all the world's leading health organisations and professionals are off the mark, it's actually not a pandemic because you said so.

micosoft

punisher5112 wrote: »

Bill Gates Foundation of he has the power and wants to keep the world population down bellow 7 billion....

Also has huge pull in who and vaccine.... Why has he been allowed so much power?

Because he is a demonstrably highly intelligent man who has dedicated both his intellect and money to solving some of the greatest affiliations on humanity. Who should they listen to? You?

Gentlemanne

Gentlemanne wrote: »

Yeah man all the world's leading health organisations and professionals are off the mark, it's actually not a pandemic because you said so.

I stand corrected. It's a pandmic alright, just not one we'd notice if we weren't being told about it constantly by round-the-clock news coverage.

What you're doing here is nit-picking about terminology while avoiding the major part of the content.

km991148

Gervais08 wrote: »

You don’t get to decide who has mental health issues and who don’t though.

Did I say otherwise? I would never question an individual for not wearing a mask.

I am working of the assumption that there are people claiming to have mental illness or asthma or whatever.

I am not calling/ don't call anyone out for it specifically, but I also see people doing this (here, out on the street etc).

My point is simply that the people faking it are fu(king over the people who are not. If you don't want to wear a mask, fine, but don't invent an excuse.

km991148

Whenever I read about face nappies or chin diapers - I always think about the amount of pish coming out of their mouths.

granturismo

CinemaGuy45 wrote: »

85,000 deaths.

Keelings bringing in Plane loads of cheap labour while we are not allowed travel 5km from our homes.

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Fruit companies forced to fly in workers again this year because they cannot find enough staff in Ireland.

Necro

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Not a CA, all of this is being discussed in the Covid forum or various other threads in this forum.

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