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Its an over-glorified flu.

Really?

Just read this account by an extremely fit 55 y.o. with no other underlying health issues, about what it did to him:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/57887668

Or any of the other thousands of accounts which attest to similar.

[Ballywatticock]

The hottest temperature since records began in NI has been provisionally recorded this afternoon at the wonderfully named Ballywatticock in Co. Down

Next townland to the equally wonderfully named Ballyalicock...

https://www.townlands.ie/down/ards-lower/newtownards/newtownards-north/ballyalicock/

Which reminds me of the postman who used to get his words mixed up. On this occasion he was delivering the post one particularly cold, icy morning, when  he bumped into a neighbour and greeted her with a cheery:
"Hard old Cox this morning, Mrs. Frost!"

Think I've asked this before, but does anyone know someone who thinks like BennyCake, someone far down that rabbit hole who has come back to their senses?

It's rare, but it does sometimes happen, apparently:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/10/24/qanon-believer-conspiracy-theory/

(Normally behind a paywall,  but you can click for a couple of free articles first)

[And only about 150 of the more than 18,000 COVID-19 deaths in May were in fully vaccinated people. That translates to about 0.8%, or five deaths per day on average."]

While the "vaccine-deniers" are probably beyond reason, all "vaccine-hesitants" should consider this from the USA.

"An Associated Press analysis of available government data from May [2021] shows that "breakthrough" infections in fully vaccinated people accounted for fewer than 1,200 of more than 107,000 COVID-19 hospitalizations. That's about 1.1%.
And only about 150 of the more than 18,000 COVID-19 deaths in May were in fully vaccinated people. That translates to about 0.8%, or five deaths per day on average."
https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-health-941fcf43d9731c76c16e7354f5d5e187

Yes, I was pointing out the similarities to Ireland's new apartheid laws.

Christ on a bike: First Nazism, now Apartheid!

As someone who's been to Robben Island, I would recommend you educate yourself on that place, as well as Auschwitz.

But you really should keep your mouth shut in the meantime, since while Ignorance or Stupidity may normally be allowable, insulting the victims of two such vile regimes most definitely isn't.

. Vaccines are always behind variants. We need to get on with it.


By definition vaccines are behind the variants, but current vaccines are effective against the variants and they can tweaked. What we have to get on with is vaccination and stop these c**k and bull excuses for not getting vaccinated.

I heard some scientist the other day who was saying a multi-purpose vaccine which will be resitant to all variants is already being worked on.

Though he reckoned we were talking 10 years.

Big Maguire is a handful at corners.  We all love Chielinni, but corners could be a problem for Italy.  Maguire was out-jumping the Danes and they were giants.

If that man could aim his headers he'd be scoring Ronaldo and Messi numbers. Always gets contact but it could literally go any direction.

Whenever I see a reference to Slab Head, I always think of Bob Mortimer, who had a friend with a similarly massive napper:

"Sniper's Dream", we called him... 

[The EU has lost a legal battle in Brussels to force Anglo-Swedish drug maker AstraZeneca to supply 120m doses of Covid-19 vaccine by the end of June.]

Well, well, well.

Anyone remember a few months back, when the EU lambasted Astra Zeneca for not delivering vaccines they'd ordered* and took them to Court?

Well guess what?

Coronavirus: Setback for EU in legal fight with AstraZeneca

The EU has lost a legal battle in Brussels to force Anglo-Swedish drug maker AstraZeneca to supply 120m doses of Covid-19 vaccine by the end of June.

It went to court last month after the company delayed shipment of the vital vaccines, having originally committed to supply 300m doses by the same date.

However, the EU demand was not satisfied by the judge in Brussels.

But the judge did impose a deadline on AstraZeneca to supply doses to the EU over the summer or face hefty fines.

The judge at the Court of First Instance in Brussels ordered that AstraZeneca should deliver a total of 80.2m doses by 27 September.

Welcoming the court order, AstraZeneca said it had already supplied more than 70m doses to the EU and would "substantially exceed" 80.2m doses by the end of June.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-57531064



* - No suggestion that this was mere bluster, designed to conceal their own bureaucratic omnishambles in organising a vaccine roll-out, while punishing the UK for getting it right. Oh no, not at all.

... when you read quotes from global oligarchy like Kissinger, this is what he said from a speech to the "who" council on eugenics February 25 2009.

"Once the herd accepts mandatory vaccinations, it's game over. They will accept anything-forcible blood or organ donation-"for the greater good". We can genetically modify children and sterilize them-"for the greater good". Control sheep minds and you control the herd. Vaccine makers stand to make billions. Many of you in this room are investors. It's a big win win. We thin out the heard and the herd pays us for extermination services".

Let's cut to the chase: This is misinformation. There is no evidence that Kissinger ever said or wrote this.

We found other versions of the quote also include the time and place Kissinger supposedly gave the address — "to the World Health Organization Council on Eugenics Feb 25, 2009."

But when we contacted Christian Lindmeier, a spokesperson for the World Health Organization, he told us that not only are there no records in WHO's archives of the speech, but a "World Health Organization Council on Eugenics" does not exist.

"We have no records of any such speech," Lindmeier wrote PolitiFact in an email. "Please also note that there is no such 'Council' as claimed in the statement, respectively a related meme."
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/jun/25/facebook-posts/henry-kissinger-never-said-once-herd-accepts-manda/

Considering the opprobrium in which the "science" of Eugenics is held, only a f**king idiiot would suggest including it in the name of any organisation in this day and age.

And only a bigger f**king idiot would swallow it.

This Carrie one must be some ride as she seems to have Johnson in a complete spin and occupies majority of his decision making.

Whoever christened her "Carrie Antoinette" deserves a knighthood!

That is all.

[Lomg Covid has] been made into it's own entity now, that's the whole issue.

And people are latching onto this and it's been given such coverage and credence.

Could some people take quite some time to fully recover from Covid? Of course, like any ailment sometimes people will take longer to get over it fully.

All the emerging evidence of this new disease suggests that Long Covid is an idiopathic disease i.e. one which scientists don't fully understand eg where it comes from, why certain people get it, or how to treat it.

Such diseases are as old as science, and still exist. One example is Ankylosing spondylitis. This is an arthritic disease which affects peoples spines, causing back pain which can come and go, sometimes spreading beyond the spine. Sometimes it is severe, such that sufferers become crippled. It is physically visible, yet scientists still have no real understanding what causes it, or why it affects some people but not others.


A 6th-century skeleton showing fused vertebrae, a sign of severe ankylosing spondylitis

Yet by your reasoning [sic], it shouldn't really exist, just like Long Covid.

[Covid is not a threat to my demograph.]

What do we know about long term effects of the vaccine? Nothing.

What do we know about long term effects of Covid. Not a lot.

What do we know about long term effects of dying from Covid? Quite a lot, actually, not least that it's long term. Very long term, in fact.

It's a personal choice. When you see a few eejits like Trailer calling people uneducated because they don't see an upside into getting it and wanting sanctions put on them for exercising their own decisions then IMO it's people like him who are not only uneducated but dangerous. 90% of people who are getting the vaccine or doing so because they are being told to or being coerced into it.

Good grief! Self-awareness clearly isn't your strong suit.

You complain when one invidual stereotypes the minority of non-vaccinated people as "uneducated", then in the same breath you stereotype the great majority of people who choose to be vaccinated as only doing so because "they were told, or were coerced into it".

I look at it from the point of view, which is backed up by statistical data, Covid is not a threat to my demograph. There's more chance of me sitting into my car today, driving 20 miles and dying or getting seriously injured than there is of getting Covid and dying of getting seriously injured.

Covid may not threatedn you with ill-health or death. But that's not the only reason for you to get vaccinated.

For younger people can still become infected without symptoms, without even knowing it, but then pass on the infection to others who are vulnerable. So that unless you don't have parents or grandparents, aunts or uncles, older neighbours or workmates etc, then you are putting others at risk.

Which alone is extremely selfish, but in fact it's worse than that. For there is evidence that one of the strains of the new Indian variant may be attacking younger children:
https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/explained-why-singapore-is-shutting-down-schools-over-fears-about-b-1-617-covid-variant-7320318/
(Note that the corona virus behind Spanish Flu in 1917/18/19, which killen tens of millions, was the reverse of Covid-19 in that it predominantly killed young adults, but spared older adults.)

And that's the thing about viruses: they mutate all the time. And the more widespread they are, the more new variant strains can evolve, which may affect new demographics and/or outwit current vaccines and medical procedures.

Meaning that until we get on top of this virus, we are constantly at future risk, with the only sure way of getting on top being mass vaccination to achieve herd immunity.

Which won't happen while selfish and (apparently) wilfully obtuse people like you hold onto your position come-what-may, even in the face of all evidence and reason. 

I wonder do these same zealots who demand people get the vaccine, those who vilify, shame and insult those who choose not to get the flu jab every year or are they just moronic hypocrites. It's people like these who are a fickle mob and no doubt would have been front and centre when Hitler was whipping up Nazi Germany.

"Nazi Germany" - fcuk me sideways. 

Since you appear to be confusing the Nuremburg Laws with Godwin's Law, here's a primer for you:
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/nuremberg-laws
versus
https://www.oed.com/view/Entry/340583?redirectedFrom=Godwin%27s+law#eid

The most common side effects for all three drugs were fever and headache. Other reported adverse reactions included nausea, joint pain, and dizziness.

That report fails to mention an additional side-effect of the vaccine: Not dying.

[People don't sympathise with a martyr [i.e.Sands] unless they also sympathise with his cause.]

Bollocks.

People don't sympathise with a martyr [i.e.Sands] unless they also sympathise with his cause.

There's your "bollocks", right there.

It is entirely possible for people to sympathise with a cause (United Ireland) but not with a method of achieving it (Provisional campaign). Which is why Provisional SF had minimal political support pre-GFA.

Likewise with Sands, it is possible to sympathise with the individual, but not endorse his methods.

More pertinently, it is possible not to sympathise either with the individual or his methods, but still attend his funeral for some other reason (in this case, to express anger and revulsion at Thatcher and the British Government).

Which is exactly the same as 1916, in that there was no great support for the Rebels before or during the Rising, but there was widespread anger and revulsion against the British Government after the executions.

Were there many unionists in attendance?

More bollocks.

The fact Unionists didn't sympathise with the individual, his cause or his methods and so didn't attend, does not permit you to contend that those who were there automatically did sympathise with all three, or even any* of those three elements.

Which is yet more evidence to show why no-one will ever mistake you for a student of Socratic Dialogue... 


* - It's the Thatcher thing again

Yesterday France reported 184 Covid deaths:
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/france/

While the UK reported 11:
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/uk/

This disparity has been broadly similar for weeks now, if not months.

Yet in France, they're having to throw away unused AZ vaccines which have become out-of-date:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/57095105

Unbelievable.

Meanwhile Germany, whose population is approximately 25% bigger, reported 252 deaths yesterday:
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/germany/