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@Brendan O’Brien: You’re probably thinking of Goebbels.

@Brendan O’Brien: Well said!

@I’m Far Right: Far right? More like SO right! And certainly not being hyperbolic at all. I’m so glad there are strong minds like yours out there impervious to the insidious media agenda. You’re a cut above the rest my friend

@Brendan O’Brien: aka you were wrong! “lol”

@I’m Far Right: What a ridiculous comment grow up. We were in a global crisis.

@Brendan O’Brien: Oh I know you will. You would be gone long ago if being wrong was fatal ;)

@B6Tr3OgE: *manufactured global crisis

@I’m Far Right: …. according to conspiracy theorists all over the world! The flat, totally not round, world. Also – lizard people from the moon did it!

@I’m Far Right: i never saw anyone act in such an extreme fashion on either side, in real life. The journal comment section does not reflect it. People acting like they were flogged in the street for having to have a coffee outside for a month or two as a result of their own choices is funny, though.

@Setanta O’Toole: “I never saw it so it didn’t happen”

@Setanta O’Toole: Some people see themselves as heroes and ‘freedom fighters’ for having behaved in an antisocial fashion.

@Setanta O’Toole: In your mind, the government removing equal status among citizens, equality under law, can be reduced to having to “have a coffee outside”. That’s really something. I see you have learned nothing at all from the whole thing.

@I’m Far Right: Equal status under law? Does this mean that all medical professionals are being treated in an illegal fashion because they have to have vaccines to work? What about those that want to drive without their seat belt on? The fascist dictatorship in your mind is surely illegally removing their equal status by forcing them to wear one while driving.

@Brendan O’Brien: Just change your name to “What The Journal said” and get it over with.

@Diarmuid Hunt: Driving is a privilege, not a right. Working in a hospital is not a right either. Try again lad.

@I’m Far Right: Found your own copy & paste catchphrase I see. Pot, kettle. Typical.

@I’m Far Right: Waterford had one of the highest jab rates and highest covid case numbers of anywhere in the world at the same time and no media outlet questioned this…that for me destroyed any semblance of an effective vaccine.if at the time Waterford had very few cases the media would be in a tizzy proclaiming the proof in the effectiveness of the vaccine

@James Carroll: What is my copy and paste catchphrase? Please elaborate.

@I’m Far Right: there was equal right to take the vaccine or not. Choices have consequences, it was ever thus. I learned most people who got on with it have covid in their rear view and the people who denied it at all costs and claim to have not complied with any measures anyway are the ones still shiting on about it on a daily basis.

@Setanta O’Toole: “Do what you’re told or else” is not being given a choice, you halfwit. It’s coercion.

@I’m Far Right: it’s coercion to contrarians who would protest the opening of an envelope if they had nothing else to rail against. To the rest it was a choice.

@Shane Doyle: Was it even a vaccine? A vax should prevent future infection of a particular viral strain. All the covid vax did, at best, was to reduce effects. It didn’t even reduce transmission, yet non vaxed were made social pariahs and practically accused in the media or causing further spread and overwhelming hospitals, (nothing to do with the piss poor hse infrastructure, staff shortages & forced quarantine of close contacts to further reduce staff members).

@I’m Far Right: “€1.25 has been deposited to your account.”

@Setanta O’Toole: It wasn’t a really a choice. You were still coerced by fear and propaganda.

@Mike Carson: It wasn’t a Live-attenuated vaccine but a non-live vaccine, so protection fades over time. Certain vaccines must be periodically updated to protect against mutation-prone viruses that cause waves of infections months or years apart. So, to stay protected, people must get the updated vaccines even if they got an earlier version. The seasonal flu vaccine is reformulated each year to target the four strains expected to be most common and most dangerous.

@Setanta O’Toole: no coercion whatsoever mate but we will prevent you from dining out with the missus,playing sport,socialising with mates down the pub or even going on holiday unless you take this

@Shane Doyle: I did all those things but never vaxxed. stayed outside. my choice.

@I’m Far Right: we all remember the absolute insanity of the tin foil sheep refusing to follow necessary public health measures

@I’m Far Right: yep such as that guy roj blake who wanted the unvaccinated kidnapped and injected

@Roj Blake: The only one wearing the tin foil hat was you thinking the unvaccinated were zombies who were going to wipe out humanity…now back to your basement until the next whinge

@Bill Spill:

If the MSM told you that the earth was flat and inhabited by lizard people you and your sad ilk would 100% believe it, and do mental gymnastics trying to convince everyone else of the logic of your argument, yet you think you’re so clever with your sneering contempt for anyone who disagrees with your MSM version of reality.

Make sure you get your experimental boosters now, there’s a good little sheep…

@I’m Far Right: And it’s a right to have a coffee at a privately owned company? What right was taken away? Try again lad.

@I’m Far Right: or else an informed choice that everyone had an opportunity to make, but then again you don’t really care. It’s just a conduit to feed into your persecution and/or superiority complex.

@Ken O’Neill: Reaching there kenny. Having to make up stuff to suit your argument. I don’t read the MSM, so there! You, however, believe the moon landing was faked. I need say no more :)

@Bill Spill: I wouldn’t be boasting about believing in the moon landings, gullible doesn’t even begin to describe the depths of credulity and naivette one has had to plumb to swallow that monumental brick.

@Diarmuid Hunt: The privately owned companies didn’t come up with the idea, they were made to refuse service, under penalty of closure, from the government. There is a name for that type of thing, do you know what it is? Begins with an F.

@Ken O’Neill: Ok great thanks! What about chemtrails? Can I get your opinion? Real or super real?

@Bill Spill: Sure you believe in the moon landings, I couldn’t possibly stoop to engage you in any semblance of rational rhetoric.

@Ken O’Neill: I love that you are so verbose! Usually makes people seem smart. However, it doesn’t work when employed to promote crazy theories like the moon landing being faked! I’m going to go out on a limb and guess you DO believe chemtrails are a thing. I think you’re just to embarrassed to admit it now…

@Bill Spill:

You’re a laughing stock Billy Boy, beneath pity, and no where near as clever as you like to think you are.

@Ken O’Neill: That a yes on the chemtrails, isn’t it kenny? Oh boy. Ok, what about crystals? Do you believe they have special healing properties? Or are they just good for cloud busting?

@John John: yes you did,under restrictions and you didn’t jump in a plane for your holidays

@Bills pill:

Desperation creeping into your once hubristic rhetoric I see, self doubt surfacing there Billy Boy you see, and aren’t you a bit old to be believing in fairytales about 12 men going to the moon and back over half a century ago?

@Ken O’Neill: oh I would be absolutely fascinated to know what you see as desperation?! I’m also genuinely interested; is the moon landings being faked the only conspiracy theory you believe in? And also; how do explain the roughly half a million people involved with the landings ALL being in on the conspiracy?

@I’m Far Right: No, there are plenty of laws which govern what a private company can and can’t do, is making selling tobacco illegal to an under 18 fascism? What about time restrictions on selling alcohol? Selling knives to children? Think, please.

@Bill Spill: Ah, interesting, you may be willing to learn after all, well you’re obviously not familiar with the concept of compartmentalisation, besides whistleblowers had no hope of being heard had they summoned up the courage to speak out, with career or reputational suicide being the price to pay or worse, as in the case of Gus Grissom who called an unauthorised press conference in 1968 in which he declared they were at least 10 years away from landing a man on the moon, he had hung a lemon under the module that morning in protest, 3 days later he and fellow astronauts Ed White and Roger Chaffey died in a horrific oxygen fire on the launch pad, Grissom’s family believe he was deliberately murdered to shut him up.

@Bill Spill: The jokes on you by the way Billy Boy, you’re the one who believes in impossible fairytales because you’re incapable of thinking for yourself, and that answer is not for your benefit, it’s for anyone with an open mind who may have come across this exchange with an open mind that hasn’t already been brainwashed like yourself.

@I’m Far Right: the people you speak of have no shame.

@Ken O’Neill: ok fair enough Ken. I kinda thought you were kidding or trolling a bit. If you’re that serious, good luck to you. I think it’s batsh!t myself, just like flat earth, chemtrails etc. But who knows. The truth is out there!

@Brendan O’Brien: shouting loudly regardless of your case strength will always fall on deaf ears for people who are afraid of their own shadow to give an opinion that goes against the general narrative that has ‘follow the science’ attached to it, the new religious rhetoric!

@B6Tr3OgE: you’re so scared aren’t you ..of everything!

@Diarmuid Hunt: the seat belt argument again…exactly the same thing as being injected with experimental drugs against your will which was the case in so many countries.

@Jimmy Wallace: they decided arbitrarily one day recently they were ‘right’ and seem to have ran with it.

@The ghost of Ireland’s past: well it became synonymous with idiocy so what else would you call people who reject expertadvice!

@The ghost of Ireland’s past: no.

@Mike Carson: Simon Harris, our Health Minister at the time, said something to the effect of ‘We’ve seen the previous 18 strains of Covid so we know how to deal with this’ at the very beginning of the hysteria – that’s what he’s referring to

@Dylan Bvrn: She’s referring to* excuse me lol

@Jimmy Wallace: This article was only updated with info re the vaccination programme in the last hour – I had posted my comment beforehand, curiously enough.

@Mike Carson: Apparently, irony & sarcasm must not always across in writing. We could start using the ‘(!)’ exclamation, but that’d defeat the purpose.

@Dylan Bvrn: Ah, yes, I remember. My apologies

@Lorne Malvo: HPSCs weekly epidemiological reports

@Lorne Malvo: excess of deaths from pneumonia & flu last winter, circulation of other respiratory viruses, an ever an ageing population, back logs and bed jams… The majority of people got the vaccine, so will be the majority in any situation. More vaxxed buy yoghurt than non-vaxxed, and conversely, less non-vaxxed wear the colour blue than vaxxed. It’s not complicated, it’s just counting.

@Roj Blake: my point is that non vaxed are not clogging up our hospitals. You can dance around it all you want with non relevant stats and arguments.

@Lorne Malvo: Probably because they’re a minority.

@I’m Far Right: I have absolutely no regrets as I acted accordingly and guess what? I never caught Covid. As for the rest of your dribble, it takes a special kind of person to think of of kind of “Stuff like that”

@Cormo R: you could have covid right now and not know it. Unless you are testing yourself daily.

@Cormo R: Well I also have no regrets and I never: wore a mask, took the vax or took a test, so what’s your point? And it’s not hard to think of examples as there were plenty. Scroll back to two year old journal comments and you’ll easily find examples. You’ll find people calling for nurses, who were previously “heroes” to be fired for not complying. People calling for the unvaccinated to be banned from public spaces. Vaccine status taken into account when hospital treatment is needed. “Pandemic of the Unvaccinated” that was a good one. “No Jab No Job” Remember all the “Stuff like that”?

@I’m Far Right: Some people saying harsh and intolerant things in comment sections? I’m shocked!

@Cormo R: I never got vaxed, and guess what? I never, to my knowledge, caught the deadly Covid either.

@I’m Far Right: And that’s the way every single person who got vaccinated treated those who didn’t in your mind?

@Mike Carson: That’s excellent hopefully you never do.

@Lorne Malvo: Very true. At the moment, though, due to the new wave, I am testing regularly with antigen tests as I work in healthcare and have parents in their 80′s.

@Cormo R: No, I never said that. You definitely did though. I can tell by the way that you’re speaking to me now. I bet you used to wet the bed every night out of anger that I was walking around, unvaccinated. You just couldn’t stand it that I seemed completely unaffected and unafraid. You’d see me in shop, maskless, and curse me under your breath. You saw me as an enemy and you still do. I suspect that jealousy was a big part of it. You were jealous that I could walk around and live life as I’d always done, while you cowered in fear of anyone with a runny nose or a cough. “Its not fair” you’d think. “Its not fair that I’m being a good boy and doing what I’m told and this guy doesn’t have to :-(

@Cormo R: Oh I probably have had it if im being honest. I’ve had sniffles, like most humans since the dawn of time. It could of been the deadly covid, but it hardly registered with me so I didn’t feel the need to isolate or put my life on hold. I did what we did in years gone by, I got on with it. This new covid scam is suddenly back in the new to try distract from more pressing issues. RTE, Housing, Migrant issues etc.

@I’m Far Right: do you want a medal for “walking around unafraid” with no mask on potentially carrying and transmitting a virus that a huge amount of us lost loved ones to? Cos I can get you a medal no problem

@Isla Carabine: Get yourself a medal too because you are probably doing the exact same thing right now. You also did the exact same thing before covid. So don’t give me that nonsense.

@I’m Far Right: You should write a book with that imagination of yours although you probably already have, and it’s being used to level a wonky table….

@I’m Far Right: Genuinely the saddest post I’ve ever read on here. I am not joking. You must be hurting real bad. I’m sorry for that

@Cormo R: I’m not a covid denier, just not a fool who believes its the new bubonic plague, not someone who selfishly believes the whole world should shut down to protect the few. Its strange how the vulnerable weren’t just isolated so the rest of society get on with their lives. No we were all locked down and restricted. Some of us demonized and discriminated against for our choices, which were ours alone and not impacting one else. I was labeled anti vax for expressing freedom of choice by pro vax Nazis. I’ve had other proven vacancies, so hardly anti vax, and personally didn’t feel the need to take a trial vax for covid unless I felt confident in it, which I don’t. By personally not taking it it only affected me. Vax people could still spread covid so why were unvaxed being treated like plague spreaders? I don’t see the same pressure being applied to people to get the flu jab? Is that because covid killed off the flu?

@Bill Spill: I’m not hurting. I want people to acknowledge what they did and how they treated others.

@Mike Carson: right , that must mean it didn’t exist .

@I’m Far Right: yep like my loved one died from a selfish pr..k like you.

@Annette: I’m very sorry for your loss but I am not to blame. It’s more likely that they contracted it from a loved one or healthcare worker (who was masked and vaxxed).

@Ronan Meagle: How to you mean it didn’t exist? I don’t believe I suggested it didn’t exist. I’m suggesting that it was blown out of proportion, but I’m sure you know that and are just trying to push you own deluded narrative. Like all the false reporting of deaths attributed to covid that seems to be over looked, as admitted by our own Gov at one point.

@I’m Far Right: you’re saying, to people you don’t know, that they “definitely” said things that you have no idea that they did. You’re desperate to blame someone for, my suspicion is, your pain

@Annette: Really, did they murder your loved one? Have they been caught and locked up for their crimes?
Maybe you should of taken more personal responsibility and done more to protect your own loved one rather than blaming others for an illness your loved one had. Did you isolate them? Did you and your family isolate for them to? Do you honestly think the whole world should of stopped for your loved one? I think maybe you’re the selfish pr..k. Life goes on everyday, people are born, people die. People get sick. You cant blame others for illness and you cant expect the world to pause for your loved 1. I lost family through illness. I don’t blame others and I dam sure didn’t want the world to stop so the could attempt to get better.
I focused on them and what I could do to help along with the doctors and nurses,not the entire general population.

@Lorne Malvo: and once again those of you against the public health actions taken show whot you know….absolutly nothing. It is only CoViD-19 if you develop symptoms, so you cannot have ” covid right now and not know it” as you put it. What can happen is you contract the virus, SARS-COV-2, and not know it, and if you are vaccinated, there is a good chance you never will.

@Joe x: Shows how much you know dumb ass. SARS-COV-2 is COVID 19. The who decided to call it COVID 19 to try and not cause massive panic in Asia where they were already exposed to previous SARs outbreaks’. Its one and the same. A catch all label for all the different variants. So weather you vaccinated or not you could still catch SARS/COVID.

@Mike Carson: and you have just shown who the real dumb ass is Mike. YOURSELF.
SARS-COV-2 is the virus that causes the disease CoViD-19. It is not CoViD-19 until you develop the symptoms that define it. You can contract the virus without developing the disease and thanks the vaccinations that is more and more the case. Same goes for the Influenza virus and the disease it causes…the flu

@Cormo R: In other words you’re just a nasty piece of work regardless of circumstances, hopefully you took the snake oil.

@Mike Carson: btw Sars, the disease is cause by the virus SARS-COV. again virus and disease. Now I will admit that normally the disease moniker is usually taken from the name of the virus like in the case of the Flu and Sars, and you are correct in the reasoning behind the naming of CoViD-19, however SARS-COV-2 and CoViD-19 are 2 different things as I have oreviously explained to you. Hope that clears up your confusion.

@Joe x: Did you get a covid vaccine or a SARS-COV-2 vaccine? What does it say on the little gold sta… sorry, sticker, that you got?

@I’m Far Right: it’s a vaccine against SARS-COV-2, which if you read my previous comments correctly is the name of the virus that causes CoViD-19. However in the incorrect vernacular, it is called a Covid Jab. It is actually the same with influenza vaccines and how they are called the Flu Jab in the vernacular. BTW……what grade star did you get or was it a fine big red X for being a know-it-all by any chance?

@Joe x: I came out of the whole thing completely unscathed. Bodily autonomy intact and everything. Feels good knowing that I didn’t give in to the pressure.

@I’m Far Right: going by some of your comments you were clearly emotionally hurt by the whole thing, so I wouldn’t say ‘unscathed’. And I’m not having a go. I really don’t think anyone, of any stripe or opinion, came through it unscathed. Whether you took the jab or not, believed it was a hoax or not, etc etc, that was a very turbulent time

@Joe x: Ah old Joe is back. loves a good rant about covid

@Bill Spill: That’s a great point to think about, not directly about I’m Far Right but in general.

@I’m Far Right: totally unscathed is it? Judging from your own comments I think you are trying to convince yourself of that instead of others….tell you what….easiest way to put your mind at rest is to either avoid the covid articles or do what I did….get vaccinated.

@Paul Keenan: well what you expect Paul when you see so much stupidity denying expert advice, good to see your still knocking around, not heard from you in a long time. How you been?

@Bill Spill: Yeah I suppose that’s a fair point. The whole thing seems like some weird dream now. What a crazy time.

@Joe x: Im great just like 99% of the population who have moved on, but sure theres always the few that just wont let it go, imsure they will be calling for masks again and the likes of o callaghan
trying to scare parents about sending kids back to school

@I’m Far Right: can agree on that alright

@Paul Keenan: good to hear. At this stage I couldn’t care less what people do but it just annoys me how people cannot differentiate between virus and disease. But hey, I know that is more my problem than theirs but it comes from my trade where we are meant to be very clear in the documentation for what we do. Now, those same people are the ones who will cry if a particularly nasty variant arrives which hopefully will never happen. But if it does, I’ll just get my vax and move on.

@Paul Keenan: BTW Paul, seeing as you brought up the subject of masks, why dont you explain your understanding behind the reasoning for wearing them. Just so you know, I still wear one if I’m ever feeling fluey ( or should that be covidey), it’s just that I cannot really understand what the issue is for some people.

@Joe x: As I already said there is a Tony minority that just won’t let it go.

@Paul Keenan: No worries, I was just trying ti understand what the issue was with them since you brought it up, but if you’re not up to discuss it, then fair enough. Anyway until the bexf time.

@Joe x: * next*

@Annette: Did you find them after you got your vax?