To Mask or not to two - Mask Megathread cont.

Wear your mask all day if you want, but thankfully they're no longer legally required for the rest of us who have gotten back to normal, and I mean the original 2019 normal, not the fake, constructed, hoped for, new covid normal.

I will say though, I do miss the days when I was able to wear a mask under my nose in the supermarket.

Good times.

I'm anti-mask, anti-restriction, anti anything to do with covid, I won't even type covid with a capital "C" I despise it and everything associated with it that much.

Pro-maskers can't have it all their own way, there's needs to be an opposing voice or voices. Unfortunately the pro lobby gets all the air time, the anti maskers are not given a voice, not publicly anyway, but at least those in power have finally seen the light again and resisted calls for masks over the last flu season.

I have no idea who your local TD is, but he or she toed the NPHET line, and the party whip, they didn't want to incur Tony's wrath, nor did they want to have voters dying on their watch, so they went for the easier option.

i wouldn't trust the word of a TD as far as i could throw them... they areas bent as bejaysus, all they care about is votes and not looking dirty.

Look at Phil Hogan and the supreme court judge in Clifden, Boris Johnson in the UK, and the various governors in the USA.... they all adopted the "do as I say, not as I do" mantra and flaunted the rules.

You picked a very bad example of using a TD as a shining beacon of public health advice. If my local TD told me it was raining I'd go outside and check for myself.

Again, you're another person who disagrees with a dissenting voice and because you're not capable of saying anything better, you simply slap "conspiracy theory nutter" on me.... In that case you may as well just call me Aunty Starmix66 😂

Not all of us rolled over and took one for the team in the name of "science" just because "de man on de telly" said so. I don't have blind faith, I don't believe in God and I certainly don't believe in Tony. I also don't have full faith in their science either, it was manipulated to suit their needs at the time.

How about the time the EU tried to get the South Africans to doctor their covid report to say that whatever variant they discovered was more deadly than it actually was?

You can't trust politicians or the "science" if it's being used to push an agenda. That is a fact, and that is just the first example that springs to mind.

And for the record, I never wore a mask correctly, I had to protest somehow, anything else and you got stomped on. No one wants to be the nail that gets hammered after all... you need to make the best of a bad situation or you'll go completely crazy.

Convict what now?

Call me a coward all you want, I don't care, I had no interest in protesting and possibly getting arrested, only to have the media then publish my full name and address, leading to me being ostracized by people who know me, and possibly also getting fired.

Unfortunately protesting in Ireland during the covid had real life consequences, it was in fact illegal, and despite my convictions, I had to balance all that with paying for the mortgage, so small protest it was.

People were outdoing themselves to be judge, jury & executioner... the government literally had us by the short and curlys all in the name of public health.

It's easy for you to to complain about me not fully following through on my convictions when it was your side calling all the shots and the government was singing your tune, you didn't need to protest, you were happy to watch the rest of us being forced to wear masks.

Thankfully I don't need your respect, you're just another random keyboard warrior on the internet, same as myself and everyone else on boards, except now you're on the losing side and you don't like it. Masks are thankfully a thing of the past despite what the die hards mask lovers want.

The restrictions are gone, Tony is gone, NPHET are gone, and the unions thankfully didn't get their way with the masks over Christmas.

We just need to ditch those mask rules in the doctors surgery now.... they're just an unwelcome hangover from the covid era.

More big words and name calling because I'm a dissenting voice.... Just because it's a law, doesn't make it a just law.

The government needed to control us to be seen to do something, so they threw out the agreed pandemic action plan, adopted the Chinese approach, clutched at a few straws, locked us down, introduced masks and hoped for the best.

They were more worried about saving votes than public health, and it was quite clear that they were hiding behind NPHET.

If they really cared about public health they would have taken a step back and done a proper cost / benefit analysis with regards to the socioeconomic impact of the restrictions and the knock on effect of missed medical diagnoses, and don't give me the line that it was a emergency, it's not like the tanks were rolling over the border.

I mean, if they really, really cared about public health they wouldn't have cleared old folk out of the hospitals and clustered them in retirement homes...

I've never met a politician who was more interested in the public than they were about getting themselves voted back in and staying in power. And like I said earlier, if a politician told me that it was raining outside, I'd go outside and check for myself first before believing them.

They're not to be trusted.

It's curious that the same government who initially locked us down was the same government that told the unions to take a hike when they were looking for masks at Christmas.

That tells me that they will swing whatever way the popular winds are blowing, and that for all the shouting the unions did about masks, the government decided not to opt for that approach this time.

That also tells me that they either know masks are pointless, or than an election is coming, or maybe even a bit of both.