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If you can’t explain to a 9yo the idea of wearing a mask to stop spreading a virus that might kill someone like one of their grandparents then you have a serious parenting problem going on.

people are projecting their own lack of effort around mask wearing onto kids just to make a point as of a 9yo wearing a mask is somehow being seriously put out, load of auld twaddle.

9 year old here wearing a mask this week… do they like it - probably not. Do they do it - yea.

we didn’t sell it as if they dont, they’re killing some old person. It’s about everyone trying to do their best, we explained this to them and they said ok.

I know you’re against what the gov is proposing, but you’re down a mad path with posts lately. Saying everyone over 75 should be thrown under the bus or the post above… :(

I am vaccinated .

Fundamentally though, for me, it comes down to this. I can’t think of a single case offhand of a person who was previously fit and healthy who has ended up needing intensive care (or even hospitalisation )after contracting covid .

Remember in 2020 it was hse policy to not treat over 75's in the main for covid in icu/hospital, the main care given was to let them die in nursing homes, that illustrates the sheer lack of capability in our healthcare system at the minute, it's not that over 75's should be thrown under the bus,our healthcare system simple hasn't the capacity to deal with them

I said might.

kids are intelligent and adaptable, more so than many adults.

It's up to everyone how to handle this themselves but it's the incessant whingeing that's sickening.

Sunday Indo claimed this morning that there was a level of defiance in the antivaxxers which i have noticed too which solves nothing.

Nonsense. You would have had a much better youth than they are facing into today.

No major upheavels on your social life and real opportunities to work for.

There might be more money floating around today but it doesn't bring happiness and it most definitely does not lead to our inbuilt desire for social contact being met.

Anyone under 40 will be facing into tough times where they will be less well off than their parents. Opportunities will be much more limited, including emigration. All the while being saddled with the enormous burden of paying for the excesses of spending and economic destruction of covid.

All to protect snowflakes like yourself...

Mahoney_j I have seen you post this before about alleged chopping and changing and mixed messages. With a very long time now the message has been to minimise your interactions with others as much as possible, wear a mask when in public and where there is a risk of contracting the virus and wash your hands.

As the case numbers go up and down, the rate at which you will hear the above advice goes up and down too.

Any other changes that are made are as a consequence of where we are with the case numbers at a point in time and therefore could easily be predicted well in advance.

The faux outrage then when other measures are introduced is getting too predictable at this stage.

So ,just to get this correct;

The lady in question presumably caught the covid on Tuesday evening from her sister and died Friday/Saturday if being buried on Monday .

You should really contact the Dept. of Health as something that lethal within 4 days or less is the sort of covid that had people collapsing on the street in China early 2020 according to social media .Could be a whole new strain .

If u were the owner of a pub /restaurant /hotel hairdresser /Gym etc or a worker in that sector you’d have a different opinion …..throw in nephet going on solo runs ….likes of Donnelly and Leo giving info and then backtracking …remember 2 weeks to flatten the curve …vaccination of the elderly and then gen population been our way out …..schools are safe and Covid dosnt affect under 12s and on and on and on

talking to my brother in Melbourne earlier ….Covid out there is in the back round out there when it comes to media and what people fill there day ….here wherever u turn its in your face govt ,nephet thru there actions have fed this and the disillusionment .I and majority of country have done everything we’ve been asked to curtail this and yet normality or anything close to it is further away than it was last January

Something doesnt fully add up though. The uks not fully vaxxed population is twice the size per capita as here.

If it was as simple as get everyone done surely it should be higher at maybe 80% unvaxxed in icu.

There must be a few very small minorities who have very high risk factors (whether known or unknown) while vaccinating the more average person has little effect on the end icu figure.

It doesn't make much sense otherwise unless there are factors such as people in icu for an extended period of time who predated vaccine, fiddling dates of the period discussed (hse did like to talk about icu admissions in the under 50s since june, when the majority would not have been eligible for a large part of the period) to suit the headline figure, or maybe unvaxxed patients undergo a more rigourous testing procedure for covid...

Who knows...

Our society is gone to fcuk if people are happier to risk killing an 85yo rather than ask their 9yo wear a simple harmless mask.

what if the 85yo only has a year to live, what if they had 5 or 10 years to live. Denying them that chance so your kid isn’t asked to wear a mask or that you can slobber with your mates without restrictions is so selfish it’s disgusting.

The “no good reason” is to minimise spread of a virus that is circulating at present. It’s effect on old and vulnerable people is well known.

nobody is saying a 9yo has to wear a mask 24/7, that’s just auld pub talk from idiots.

the likelihood is in time mutations will become more benign, it’s interesting to see however in the meantime how many in society just care about themselves rather than the wider community particularly the elderly and vulnerable who need our effort to protect them.