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All Covid-19 measures are permanent, don't be a boiling frog!

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  • Registered Users Posts: 216 ✭✭ohnohedidnt


    Sorry I meant to say Multi-Stakeholder Partnership's not stake holder capitalism. It's an idea that was actually pitched at the WEF, but it's not socialism, in a way its kind of the opposite.



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


    Just on your first point though, whilst restricting the population moving between countries might be the sign of something untoward happening in an individual country. When it is the whole planet doing so it makes no sense for your socialist plot.

    Where are people being prevented from escaping to? Everywhere else is in the same situation and has also had restrictions on movement.



  • Registered Users Posts: 216 ✭✭ohnohedidnt


    I don't know I'd agree there's no boogeyman. We still have restrictions in place. And although some have been lifted it just takes the Governments to throw out a new Greek letter and people will be hiding under their beds again.

    We do live in connected times, but communication is less free than it was two years ago, there's far more censorship in my opinion. People are afraid to speak about a whole range of topics now for fear of being cancelled.



  • Registered Users Posts: 25,234 ✭✭✭✭King Mob


    This is also one thing that always bugs me about these giant global conspiracies.

    In this latest example, we have all governments, all businesses all scientists and medical organisations are all working together, possibly under the command of the WEF.

    The level of control is so complete that there is no dissent from the plan and people are willing to lie and kill for it.


    At this point, doesn't it mean that they already control everything? Doesn't it mean they've already won and have what they want?

    It begs the question of why they need the pretext of fake pandemics/school shootings/terrorist attacks or whatever.



  • Registered Users Posts: 25,234 ✭✭✭✭King Mob


    So how come you're still able to expose this evil global communist plot? How were you able to find out about it?


    Again, your claims only sound good superficially, but the second you scrunitize them, they kinda look ridiculous...


    Which restrictions are going to be permanent specifically?

    How will the evil global communist conspiracy be able to keep making false claims about covid variants?



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  • Registered Users Posts: 216 ✭✭ohnohedidnt


    Sweden need to watch out! They thought they had immigration issues before! Belarus/Sudan/Niger probably not so much.

    https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/covid-stringency-index



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


    Which quickly brings us to the next major flaw in all the items in your list. When you pull out one outlier country to attempt to prove your point the next obvious question is why were they not included in the global plan to implement socialism, and why are they not saying anything about this plan?

    Then for the each point in you list there would be a different outlier country that would be mentioned in the attempt to prove the point, but still nobody other than some people on obscure conspiracy theory websites have managed to uncover the plot.



  • Registered Users Posts: 25,234 ✭✭✭✭King Mob


    The obvious question would be to ask who is involved in the conspiracy? Which countries and organisations and to what level?

    But we won't get an answer partly because conspiracy theorists don't know, as the theory has no depth and is essentially makey uppey.

    And because partly the smarter conspiracy grifters like to keep things vague so they can shift the goal posts and adapt their claims as much as possible. Conspiracy theorists here are just parroting the vagueries.



  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    strange you agree on that, when the logical out is getting vaccinated, or imposing restriction measures to stem the flow of hospital admissions, seen as we're not going to see a fixed healthcare system any time soon...

    we're seeing figures of 65-90% of COVID patients in ICU are unvaccinated

    taking the numbers in the Times article.... 74 COVID patients... with only 11 adult beds available

    you could potentially have an additional 48 to 66 beds freed up

    Then you have the clusterfuck of normal beds, and having to impose isolation on patients with COVID, this takes extra staff, space and time.... again with the majority of hospital admissions being unvaccinated.

    There's a bit of cause and effect correlation



  • Subscribers Posts: 41,582 ✭✭✭✭sydthebeat


    This sounds suspiciously like you don't believe covid exists as "all governments need to do is throw out the next Greek letter"

    Do you believe covid is a real measurable and quantifiable entity?



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  • Registered Users Posts: 216 ✭✭ohnohedidnt


    Yes of course it's real, and is quantifiable. But as with all things Covid, a hysteria is easily generated around it. I think the delta variant is more contagious, but less deadly, but if you listen to hysteria round it you'd think Delta variant was much more dangerous.



  • Subscribers Posts: 41,582 ✭✭✭✭sydthebeat


    So then you agree that governments couldn't just throw out another Greek letter to control the masses

    There would actually have to a measurable and quantifiable entity



  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    1. You can travel to the UK without any checks and the rest of Europe with a lateral flow test.
    2. Furlough scheme is gone in a lot of countries, anywhere it still exists is to maintain skilled labour, because yes, they would simply get a job elsewhere, wouldn't you?
    3. Have you got an example of an existing social credit system in the western world?
    4. You really need to have a trip out of Ireland, see things for yourself, because a lateral flow test isn't exactly asking the world of someone
    5. You know what happens when money is printed with no value behind it? Interest rates rise, investment drops, people stop doing stuff.... it quite the opposite to what needs to be done right now.... it also has the knock on effect of those loans countries took out becoming more expensive to pay off... it is economic suicide to do this.... you clearly haven't any basic economics behind you stating something like that
    6. Normal passports, mobile phones, bank cards, ANPR, RFID access cards, login credentials ... all general day to day things that can be used to track someone... what additional measures are in place?
    7. If you believe anything from anyone, by just their word, more fool you, government are no different... but phrasing it in a way like that is just trying to make your own perspective seem superior when there are people who have looked at a story from various sides and made and informed decision... which could agree or disagree with you or the government.... to cast it as "they agree with the government and not with what I believe in" is a bit pathetic to be honest
    8. As you can see from this discussion alone, even when attempting to engage in civil discussion, when certain posters are challenged with factual evidence, they throw their toys out of the pram and claim socialism.... again, a bit pathetic... I don't label them as any the labels you mentioned.... I just call them mongos, because they demonstrate time and time again, a lack of critical thinking and discussion on a topic


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,484 ✭✭✭Fighting Tao



    @ohnohedidnt The elephant in the room is the lack of reason for this theory. Why would western countries want to change to socialism?

    Why are non-western countries of all political persuasions doing the same if it’s just for western countries?

    PS. I suspect I’m on ignore for asking basic questions earlier in the thread 😂



  • Registered Users Posts: 25,544 ✭✭✭✭Timberrrrrrrr


    "I think the delta variant is more contagious, but less deadly, but if you listen to hysteria round it"


    So you (what are your medical qualifications?) "Think" it's less deadly, and you think the measures taken are "hysteria"?

    Meanwhile actual scientists who know a hell of a lot more about it disagree with you.



  • Registered Users Posts: 25,234 ✭✭✭✭King Mob


    Thats because those scientists are part of the conspiracy.

    Thats the only option as it's just not possible for someone with no medical training or qualifications or any knowledge of medicine or virology can be wrong.



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


    There are absolutely conspiracies which have happened through the pandemic. Such as government ministers awarding multi million pound contracts to friends and family. But those conspiracies are seemingly not extreme enough in their plots for people to get excited about, and they would be significantly easier to cover up with just a little bit more competency from those involved. They also have much easier to understand reason for occurring, to make money.


    Yet its the massive global conspiracies which people in here latch onto here which have no reason for happening and no way they could be carried out without people leaking details. If awarding contracts to your mates company is discovered then these global plots should be exposed far easier as there would be so many people involved.



  • Registered Users Posts: 216 ✭✭ohnohedidnt


    The thing about real conspiracy theories, by definition, is that all the facts are not out in the open, if they were it wouldn't be a theory right?

    Then there's "conspiracy theories", where it's just a label, like Fauci and NIH funded GOF research at the Wuhan lab, The democrats funded Russian interference in to the 2016 election, Hunter Biden's laptop, things like that, even when the facts are out it still gets called a conspiracy theory, in those cases its just a label meaning things people don't want to hear/believe.

    Only the latter type of "conspiracy theory" can be proven, but usually the people you try to prove it to, have already ignored the facts and don't want to know and will still call it a conspiracy theory after being shown proof.

    So when you come on a conspiracy theory forum, and you don't believe either type of conspiracy theory, what is your goal, you either want proof of things which by definition can't be proven with the information currently available, or you want to ignore things you already don't want to believe, in which case it's easier to just ignore them completely and and not go on the forums? The only productive reason to go on forums like this is to counter other peoples theories with arguments of your own, but constantly asking for proof or details and thinking you're winning because people can't prove the currently unproveable seems like a huge waste of time.

    I can't prove either suggestion I have put forward this morning, and my suggestions actually run counter to each other, so they're clearly just theories which I'm obviously not convinced about myself, which is why it's in a conspiracy THEORY forum. I don't KNOW if anything I'm saying is true, because it's a THEORY. So if you want me to break down a theory and tell you which countries and organizations might be involved, I can happily tell you which ones I THEORIZE might be involved, but no doubt rather than explain why you think I'm wrong, you'll ask me to prove I'm right, which I can't.



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


    What you want is a creative writing forum then.


    Those actual things that we know about where people have conspired to do something have never been revealed by people posting theories online. It's either through journalists investigation or government leaks or admissions.


    Also I'm not sure that any of the ones you mentioned are actually conspiracies. Funding from the US to international research labs for example is not a conspiracy, it's just what they do, isn't unexpected and isn't going to stop because some people that don't understand why it happens have just learnt about it. That is just how research is funded.



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  • Registered Users Posts: 6,484 ✭✭✭Fighting Tao


    You could answer the question “why would governments want to replace capitalism with socialism?”. That’s not asking for evidence, just asking to explain your conspiracy theory a little more.



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


    So do you believe that any of those points are what is actually happening?



  • Registered Users Posts: 25,234 ✭✭✭✭King Mob


    Waffle and mischaracterisation.

    I have not once asked anyone on this thread for proof. Please quote where I have done so, or be honest and withdraw your remark.


    What I pointed out is that you cats won't even THEORISE who is involved in the conspiracy your "theorising" about.

    You say you can do this, but instead of just doing it when asked, you go off on this ramble that has nothing to do with what I actually said.


    So tell us, who do you THEORISE is involved in this global socialist conspiracy? Who is not? How can you tell?

    Please be specific.



  • Registered Users Posts: 216 ✭✭ohnohedidnt


    Who disagrees? Who says it's more deadly? I'll have a read.



  • Registered Users Posts: 16,640 ✭✭✭✭astrofool


    The difference with the Delta variant is that it's more transmissible, the difference in deaths is down to vaccines (also observed prior to the delta variant). I like the idea that as it evolves it becomes less deadly but that isn't the case with delta and the death rates among unvaccinated are pretty much as they were (adjusting for age and underlying conditions). SARS-COV2 is insidious as it's just deadly enough to overwhelm hospitals and kill a lot of vulnerable people but not deadly enough that everyone is running for the hills (hence idiots not getting vaccinated because chances are good they won't die).



  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    You've demonstrated numerous times you don't read anything



  • Registered Users Posts: 25,234 ✭✭✭✭King Mob


    I think we're still waiting for them to finish "The Great Reset" book.



  • Registered Users Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    I love lists of "here are all the things that evil socialists want to do", because when you examine the list you always find that the countries most allergic to socialism are already doing exactly those things and have been doing them for years, despite getting continuously less socialist.

    Let's look at the US:

    Jackboot authoritarianism, stopping and arresting people for no reason, arbitrary travel bans? Check

    Freedoms based on compliance? Check.

    Contrived conflicts and crises to justify printing money? Check.

    Mass tracking of individuals and gathering of data with no controls or rules? That's a big check.

    Mass propaganda campaigns, widespread gaslighting of the population? check check check.

    Labelling of dissenters as terrorists, satanists and anti-American? Check



  • Registered Users Posts: 216 ✭✭ohnohedidnt


    You're not on ignore, I'm just getting a lot of questions, and these f**kers sitting around me keep asking me to do my job too.

    Its no secret there is push toward socialism, especially amongst younger people in the US, but here too. And its also no secret that the WEF have been discussing the Great Reset long before Covid ever came. It may not even be that all the governments are aware they are being manipulated, they're relying on data from all over the world to make the decisions, how much can that dat be trusted?

    Consider this as a possibility. We know doctors have been influenced by drug companies before, a recent example is the Oxycontin problem in the US, doctors pushed a drug for their own benefit, which was harmful and addictive and got kick backs for doing it. So now we have doctors making all the economic decisions, who could potentially be influenced by pharma companies, who are making billions from the fear of Covid. Have you noticed that there's a lot more reports of children getting sick recently? Strange that last of the unvaccinated are suddenly getting more impacted by the virus that harmed almost nobody in that age bracket before.



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