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Carter Reynolds is one of the new league of Vine stars – people (mostly teenagers) who have gained a massive following from posting six-second videos online.
Reynolds has 2.39 million followers on Twitter and 4.3 million on Vine, where he mostly posts videos like this:
https://vine.co/v/OmvKdPjOLwZ
Like a lot of Vine stars, he’s now mostly famous for what goes on in his personal life.
And what is that?
It all started one month ago, when a video was leaked online that allegedly showed Reynolds pressuring his then 16-year-old girlfriend into oral sex, despite her repeatedly telling him she didn’t want to.
Reynolds claimed that his iCloud account was hacked, and said there had been a “HUGE misunderstanding” over the contents of the video:
Couples do stuff like that all the time… And no I’m not saying that it was the right thing to do, but it’s the truth. I should have just stopped asking when she said “no” the first time.
I'm sorry that the girl, her family, my family and everyone else have been affected by the video.
Last night, it emerged that Carter had been banned VidCon, a massive conference in California for YouTubers and Vine stars.
Organiser Hank Green (brother of The Fault In Our Stars author John Green) seemingly made the decision after people complained that Reynolds would be a “threat to young girls” attending VidCon, and had him removed from the hotel where the conference was taking place.
@Onision Security removed him from the hotel. He was not an invited guest.
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You’re either immune or not – immunity is not job specific. If you need healthcare workers back regardless then just say it, there’s a danger that people will start picking things up wrong if you just keep making stuff up.
@Dara O’Brien: all they care about is the rosters in hospitals being filled, if a healthcare worker who has been infected and re-exposed via close contact (which is very likely) they don’t have to quarantine themselves for 2 weeks and the hospital can function as normal, no science behind it just ignorance
@Seán O’Sullivan: telling people they are immune is NOT a calculated risk. Either you have a scientific basis for saying it or not. If they do, then it extends to everyone. If they don’t it’s utter nonsense and should be withdrawn. Health care workers are just as likely to catch it on close contact as everyone else. They also happen to be more likely to come into contact with it.
It’s utterly disingenuous to make it one rule for one and not for others. I sincerely hope the unions get involved at this point and call b*llsh*t as they should.
This advice could endanger health care workers, their families and anyone else the come into contact with, including their patients.
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What a load of bollox..just like the 2, 5 and soon 20 km limits all makey up… To hear simple Simon on the radio when asked about should the 20km limit be skipped and allowed people travel everywhere he said he felt it in his gut it was the wrong time…. No scientific evidence to back these travel restrictions
@a politicians promise is as good as a lie: The 2, 5 and 20km limits are to contain clusters. If there is an outbreak during the 5km limit, then, if everyone is staying inside their areas, it should be contained and make the trace work a lot easier.
This immunity thing though I cant make heads or tails of.
@a politicians promise is as good as a lie: really? How do you know the Scientific evidence or perhaps you are in fact a Scientist in which case your comment just might be viable
Just now on the tonight show Prof Paul Moynagh (maynooth) says tests should have cost €15 each . Our boys (who some think are playing a blinder) are paying €200 per test.
Yeah .. if only healthcare staff lived 24/7 in hospitals and couldn’t infect the community and patients if only they had magical powers not to fall ill and suffer themselves . What in the name of Christ is wrong with the CMO, the HSE and the government ? Criminal !
Absolute horse sh!t. I’m a nurse, I know of more than one staff member who tested positive, recovered, then tested positive a second time and was considerably sicker second time round.
@Davy MacIomhair: I wonder if Covid 19 perhaps behaves in the same way that Borrelia aka Lyme disease sometimes does. Goes to ground in the body’s organs and is then no longer detectable in the blood – regularly shapeshifting and creating a biofilm to evade the immune system , so that even after extended oral antibiotic treatment and a subsequent blood test which proves negative – waves of various symptoms recur and sometimes to a serious degree for years.
Heard it all now as a Health care worker, this alarms me but now the grey area is explained, Health care workers are now deemed as collateral damage, they are really clueless, BTW only have sex with one close contact, Tony says
Christ!!!! The cracks are showing with poor old Dr Tony. So healthcare staff aren’t part of the general population now? The old power has his brain fried.
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