Rugby NAMA thread Revisited Rugby

[camroc1]

Viruses mutate. It's what they do.

To date the pharma companies that developed the vaccines have said that they work for the mutated viruses as well.

That's not to say that there won't be a mutation that will need a completely new vaccine. But there have been none to date that we know of.

Anyway : 1378, 23.

[HighKingLeinster]

1378 cases

Keeping a few back to sprinkle in next week as needed to keep Helen LoveMullets terrified

[EverReady]

1378 cases

Keeping a few back to sprinkle in next week as needed to keep Helen LoveMullets terrified

'The rate of infection may look like it is going down but it is X to Rx / (GH) to the +_/45r/πy to [56]'
'What?'
'We are reducing the 5km to 2km'
'Figures'

[Leinsterman]

5km to 2km
It's what Tomás Ryan would want. Do it for Ireland.

[iarmhiman]

Is Ryan not a neuroscience professor?

How has he a voice about something like a virus on national media?

I'm as qualified as him to comment on it

[EverReady]

5km to 2km
It's what Tomás Ryan would want. Do it for Ireland.

That takes out the top part of Catherine's Park. Your jealousy of my nimble beautiful legs is very unbecoming

[Leinsterman]

I am nothing if not petty.

[Duff Paddy]

Is Ryan not a neuroscience professor?

How has he a voice about something like a virus on national media?

I'm as qualified as him to comment on it

The media love it. Stir up fear, pretend this expert has a clue, and have a dig at the government all rolled into one. So Tomas tell us again how we can close the border for a few months then we’ll all be back in the nightclubs wearing the face off some young wan like a bunch mad plum and the virus will never reappear

[Mullet 2]

1378 cases

Keeping a few back to sprinkle in next week as needed to keep Helen LoveMullets terrified

Sure you're the one telling me I'm not allowed go scooping in Hout Bay

[EverReady]

Is Ryan not a neuroscience professor?

How has he a voice about something like a virus on national media?

I'm as qualified as him to comment on it

The media love it. Stir up fear, pretend this expert has a clue, and have a dig at the government all rolled into one. So Tomas tell us again how we can close the border for a few months then we’ll all be back in the nightclubs wearing the face off some young wan like a bunch mad plum and the virus will never reappear

It's like all the pronouncements from those evil bastards. They win either way. They might be the worse people in the universe and RTE are accessories like they are with the Trots and the Shinners

[iarmhiman]

Is Ryan not a neuroscience professor?

How has he a voice about something like a virus on national media?

I'm as qualified as him to comment on it

The media love it. Stir up fear, pretend this expert has a clue, and have a dig at the government all rolled into one. So Tomas tell us again how we can close the border for a few months then we’ll all be back in the nightclubs wearing the face off some young wan like a bunch mad plum and the virus will never reappear

It's like all the pronouncements from those evil bastards. They win either way. They might be the worse people in the universe and RTE are accessories like they are with the Trots and the Shinners

Oh RTE don't want this to end. Misery porn is easy news and easy money

[Flametop]

Is Ryan not a neuroscience professor?

How has he a voice about something like a virus on national media?

I'm as qualified as him to comment on it

The media love it. Stir up fear, pretend this expert has a clue, and have a dig at the government all rolled into one. So Tomas tell us again how we can close the border for a few months then we’ll all be back in the nightclubs wearing the face off some young wan like a bunch mad plum and the virus will never reappear

It's like all the pronouncements from those evil bastards. They win either way. They might be the worse people in the universe and RTE are accessories like they are with the Trots and the Shinners

I think George Lee and Ingrid Miley are the most impartial news sources.

[Leinsterman]

George Lee missed his calling working as an undertaker in a funeral home. Imagine all that misery and grief day after day. He'd have his knob worn down to a stump within a week.
So long as he isn't caught knocking one out over a coffin though. That's just bad manners

[Gavin Duffy]

George Lee missed his calling working as an undertaker in a funeral home. Imagine all that misery and grief day after day. He'd have his knob worn down to a stump within a week.
So long as he isn't caught knocking one out over a coffin though. That's just bad manners

Reckon he'd be in the coffin licking the corpse.

[iarmhiman]

George Lee missed his calling working as an undertaker in a funeral home. Imagine all that misery and grief day after day. He'd have his knob worn down to a stump within a week.
So long as he isn't caught knocking one out over a coffin though. That's just bad manners

Claire Byrne is very smug as well

[Duff Paddy]

Well the media are certainly supporting zero covid if the 9 o’clock news is anything to go by. The government are now being pressurised into doing what even Brexit could not do, establish physical border checks with Northern Ireland. They can’t of course, but it’s another stick to beat the government with. They’re damned if they and damned if they don’t. You’d almost think the numbers weren’t coming down at a rate of knots.

[Gavin Duffy]

Have they said what their modelling predicts for 2 weeks time? Have they said how they're going to factor in the vaccination programme?

[Blackrock Bullet]

We're going to have to suck it up and agree an immigration policy with the UK. That's the only way the nordies will cooperate with us.

We need to block variants coming into the country

What we're doing now will go on in perpetuity unless we at the very least protect against variants

Kate O’Connell on Brendan O’Connor this morning coming out with some mental shit. Apparently zero covid is the only show in town now. But what about the border? “Redraw the border with crayon if needed” batshit

The only way we can can stop variants like the Brazilian or other variants coming into Ireland is the following to be done:

EU stops incoming travel into the EU
UK and Ireland enforce the CTA to non EU travel. Re introduce visas travel for tourist purposes temporarily. Then we can control what comes in to the country.

What we do within the country whether we go zero covid or rolling lockdowns is another discussion.

We need to sort incoming international travel otherwise what we're doing is a waste of time.

All that talk is anti-vaxxer shit and must be called out as such.
There is absolutely no acknowledgement a vaccine exists, and no description of how normal life can resume, while living with the threat. No doubt they also offer no criticism of the slow roll out of the vaccine. These people are dangerous.

It's not anti vaxxer shit. The virus seems to be mutating faster than we can get the vaccines rolled out.


If we constantly do our bit only to have more imported cases, then it's a waste of time

It's already mutated loads of times.

As the ECDC have stated, once the virus is endemic, travel is irrelevant. If there is a mutant strain, it will get in here. Because even if we banned flights essentially. we have lorries coming in from all over Europe. All it will do is buy some time.

Reduced flights will lead to supply chains being hit, as the ban on UK visitors over Christmas showed. If we go hardcore and ban lorries, we will have empty supermarket shelves. And that will go on for weeks and weeks, it is totally unsustainable.

[ticketlessinseattle]

I just had an a moment of clarity. Your opinion matters to me not a jot and it will in no way stop me from calling out the anti expert bullshit on this thread.

I broke the rules, anybody who says they haven't is a liar.

ffs you gave 2 fingers to the experts by going to the hotbed of global Covid - as stats pointed out the testing you did doesn't necessarily mean you didn't risk brining back the South African covid ;, to compare that to someone that went to someone's house and exceeded the visitor quota is just delusional ; own it and stop telling everyone they're cnuts for questioning the experts

[ticketlessinseattle]

We’re all stuck at home slowly going crazy.

This sentence didn't get enough credit.
Sums up how everyone feels.

dunno what you're talking about ; most of the voices in my head say I'm doing just fine

[Mullet 2]

I just had an a moment of clarity. Your opinion matters to me not a jot and it will in no way stop me from calling out the anti expert bullshit on this thread.

I broke the rules, anybody who says they haven't is a liar.

ffs you gave 2 fingers to the experts by going to the hotbed of global Covid - as stats pointed out the testing you did doesn't necessarily mean you didn't risk brining back the South African covid ;, to compare that to someone that went to someone's house and exceeded the visitor quota is just delusional ; own it and stop telling everyone they're cnuts for questioning the experts

Even when I break the rules I do it better than you. You're a study in mediocrity. I was the best at following them and now I'm the best at breaking them and now we can all settle in to 6 months more misery but I'll have been on holibops.

[ticketlessinseattle]

you're wasted on FF, should be going straight to EU Trade Commissioner

[EverReady]

I see a big mental health drive going on as people now just feel hopeless. Nothing to do with NPHET saying this could go on for another year and Micheál just being Micheál. I was talking to a lad in HR today and he made a point I hadn't thought about too much in relation to younger people. You have the nerdy types who don't have a huge number of any friends so their social outlets are in work. It's completely gone and a good few are falling apart.

[Mullet 2]

Serves them right for being such nerds.

[EverReady]

Obviously I agree but it's still an issue.

Look at the language in the paper here.
https://www.independent.ie/news/passeng ... 07188.html
It's all about punishment because foreign people are bad and full of disease and need to be quarantined with SECURITY GUARDS. That's all coming from the Shinners. We are pandering to people's most base fears and feelings. Would make a man a nerd for the day

[Nolanator]

I see a big mental health drive going on as people now just feel hopeless. Nothing to do with NPHET saying this could go on for another year and Micheál just being Micheál. I was talking to a lad in HR today and he made a point I hadn't thought about too much in relation to younger people. You have the nerdy types who don't have a huge number of any friends so their social outlets are in work. It's completely gone and a good few are falling apart.

[Mullet 2]

Got an interesting break down of polling numbers recently showing that 24% of SF votes self identify as being "far right". It will be interesting to see how long Mary can ride the dragon.

[EverReady]

I see a big mental health drive going on as people now just feel hopeless. Nothing to do with NPHET saying this could go on for another year and Micheál just being Micheál. I was talking to a lad in HR today and he made a point I hadn't thought about too much in relation to younger people. You have the nerdy types who don't have a huge number of any friends so their social outlets are in work. It's completely gone and a good few are falling apart.

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[MunsterMan!!!!!]

Got an interesting break down of polling numbers recently showing that 24% of SF votes self identify as being "far right". It will be interesting to see how long Mary can ride the dragon.

That's why I thought MLMcD's recent interview, was SF attempt to try test those waters and see how it fell.

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/m ... 66172.html

[Nolanator]

I see a big mental health drive going on as people now just feel hopeless. Nothing to do with NPHET saying this could go on for another year and Micheál just being Micheál. I was talking to a lad in HR today and he made a point I hadn't thought about too much in relation to younger people. You have the nerdy types who don't have a huge number of any friends so their social outlets are in work. It's completely gone and a good few are falling apart.

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I'm in this post and I don't like it.

[EverReady]

Got an interesting break down of polling numbers recently showing that 24% of SF votes self identify as being "far right". It will be interesting to see how long Mary can ride the dragon.

That is not a remote surprise. You would think the normal parties would be hammering Una, Kitty, Fintan and Fionnanana over that

[EverReady]

I see a big mental health drive going on as people now just feel hopeless. Nothing to do with NPHET saying this could go on for another year and Micheál just being Micheál. I was talking to a lad in HR today and he made a point I hadn't thought about too much in relation to younger people. You have the nerdy types who don't have a huge number of any friends so their social outlets are in work. It's completely gone and a good few are falling apart.

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I'm in this post and I don't like it.

It's shit. It came up as a really really nice girl in work broke down on a call. So in the follow up I discovered she is pretty isolated and her friend left the job and she didn't get to say goodbye and etc etc. You don't think enough about these things.

[lilyw]

So Mary Loud claims that it's up to our Government to "use its influence with the NI Executive" to stop travel into NI.

That's the same NI Executive that her party co-leads. Obviously she has lost Michelle O'Neill's phone number.

How she can be allowed spout this crap without challenge is beyond me.

[Gavin Duffy]

I see a big mental health drive going on as people now just feel hopeless. Nothing to do with NPHET saying this could go on for another year and Micheál just being Micheál. I was talking to a lad in HR today and he made a point I hadn't thought about too much in relation to younger people. You have the nerdy types who don't have a huge number of any friends so their social outlets are in work. It's completely gone and a good few are falling apart.

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I'm in this post and I don't like it.

It's shit. It came up as a really really nice girl in work broke down on a call. So in the follow up I discovered she is pretty isolated and her friend left the job and she didn't get to say goodbye and etc etc. You don't think enough about these things.

We were given specific training on this very issues, how to spot and problems that people might be experiencing and the importance of keeping in touch with your teams and the like.

[lilyw]

I see a big mental health drive going on as people now just feel hopeless. Nothing to do with NPHET saying this could go on for another year and Micheál just being Micheál. I was talking to a lad in HR today and he made a point I hadn't thought about too much in relation to younger people. You have the nerdy types who don't have a huge number of any friends so their social outlets are in work. It's completely gone and a good few are falling apart.

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I'm in this post and I don't like it.

It's shit. It came up as a really really nice girl in work broke down on a call. So in the follow up I discovered she is pretty isolated and her friend left the job and she didn't get to say goodbye and etc etc. You don't think enough about these things.

It can be even worse that that. I know a software team leader in the City of London who has recruited 20 people since the pandemic has started. He has never met any of them & they have never met each other. They all work from home across the UK & NE Europe & have absolutely no social contact - they don't even have the crutch of previously developed relationships to fall back on.

[Nolanator]

I see a big mental health drive going on as people now just feel hopeless. Nothing to do with NPHET saying this could go on for another year and Micheál just being Micheál. I was talking to a lad in HR today and he made a point I hadn't thought about too much in relation to younger people. You have the nerdy types who don't have a huge number of any friends so their social outlets are in work. It's completely gone and a good few are falling apart.

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I'm in this post and I don't like it.

It's shit. It came up as a really really nice girl in work broke down on a call. So in the follow up I discovered she is pretty isolated and her friend left the job and she didn't get to say goodbye and etc etc. You don't think enough about these things.

Ah I can't complain too much. I'm still in work, so have that interaction with the small group that I immediately work with. Gets me out of the house too.
I literally haven't met any of my friends in person since I came home. Plenty of quiz or games nights online, which I'm grateful for. Although a good chunk of that gang are abroad anyway, so I wouldn't be seeing them in person.

I spent March-June (including my birthday) sitting on my tod looking forward to coming home and re-starting things with the missus who I'd been living apart from. That went to shit and I came home anyway cuz I'd got a good job. In another scenario I'd have been meeting my friends and (hopefully) shagging anything with a pulse and clearing the head.
Instead I've snagged a new missus (who is class), but doing nothing else outside of work. Can't imagine how isolated people who WFH without other outlets feel.

[Nolanator]

It can be even worse that that. I know a software team leader in the City of London who has recruited 20 people since the pandemic has started. He has never met any of them & they have never met each other. They all work from home across the UK & NE Europe & have absolutely no social contact - they don't even have the crutch of previously developed relationships to fall back on.

A friend of mine started working over the summer for a Huawei subsidiary based in Dublin. Once they were kicked off Google platforms, they had to recruit heavily to support their own products, since they no longer have access to Android etc.

In a year, the subsidiary company has gone from like 50 employees to around 150, last I heard. None of those new hires have been into the office or met their colleagues in the flesh.

Another friend works as a software dev for a financial services MNC and noted that people who'd been in the company for a while took to remote working much more quickly than those who hadn't met everyone yet. Particularly when it came to working with people in overseas offices. Without the rapport and familiarity built up by actually travelling to large company conferences and meetings, productivity was way down.

[Mullet 2]

Got an interesting break down of polling numbers recently showing that 24% of SF votes self identify as being "far right". It will be interesting to see how long Mary can ride the dragon.

That's why I thought MLMcD's recent interview, was SF attempt to try test those waters and see how it fell.

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/m ... 66172.html

Sooner or later one or other wing gets pissed off.

[HighKingLeinster]

Got an interesting break down of polling numbers recently showing that 24% of SF votes self identify as being "far right". It will be interesting to see how long Mary can ride the dragon.

That's why I thought MLMcD's recent interview, was SF attempt to try test those waters and see how it fell.

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/m ... 66172.html

Sooner or later one or other wing gets pissed off.

Cant beat a good ole fashioned republican split. Will hopefully drive the wokers back to mainstream parties

[Mullet 2]

Young one who is upset and lonely.

Fertile territory for you there ER. Suggest a lunch.