The moronic variant and its vaccine resistant properties are just proof that we will never vaccinate our way out of this pandemic. Mass vaccination is a waste: If we vaccinate everyone with a leaky vaccine, covid will still be able to spread and mutate through everyone - given unlimited time (assumi...

Prospect of electricity shortages or prices spiking in future could dissuade many a buyer from going electric as we approach 2030.

I'd expect new sales of combustion engines to spike in 2029 as many people will want to hang onto an ICE car as long as theyll last.

Scotty wrote: ↑Wed Oct 13, 2021 2:32 pm It's clearly gone over your head. I'll leave it there.

"Dangerous" is relative, although compared to other vaccines that were pulled in the past, the covid-19 vaccines certainly are more dangerous than those that were suspended indefinitely in the past, due to adverse reactions.

There are much worse examples of his airheaded-ness (to put it lightly)

You do have to worry about his mental ability, listening to him speak. He doesnt have long left

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.24.21262415v1 New studies to suggest that "naive-vaccinees" (those with no prior infection) are up to 13 times more at risk of reinfection than those who recovered from a previous infection - in the same timeframe. Natural immunity may be sup...

Also just on herd immunity (slightly off-topic but ehh) - another reason why it is impossible is because covid has been detected in a massive amount of animal species. Herds of deer in the US are testing positive for covid too. And we all heard those news stories earlier about gorillas and tigers an...

But I'm not asking about vaccines. I'm asking is that not how herd immunity works. It's not about making everyone immune. It's not a direct effect, it's an indirect (secondary) effect of vaccinations. Vaccines afaik are never 100% effective. There's always a certain % they don't work on. They are a...

If you are less likely to get it. You are less likely to spread it. Indirectly that causes herd immunity. No? That is not how vaccines operate - vaccines have and always have protected the recipient. No vaccine has ever been designed with the express goal of herd immunity - it can happen for less v...

Thats how vaccines work is herd immunity. No its not - vaccines protect the individual. No vaccine only works by vaccinated en mass. They exist to give individual protection. If you can get "herd immunity" its a bonus, but it is fundamentally not how vaccines work. Vaccines work by "...

TBH I suspect that's as much to do with social engineering more people to get vaccinated MM. That and the PCR test only shows you were uninfected at the time the swabs were taken. Which in the normal order of things is the day before. Well any of the PCR tests I took came back the next day, maybe t...

Scotty wrote: ↑Mon Aug 09, 2021 12:00 pm Jeez how deep do you have to dig to find these stories? 14 out of what? 15, 1500, 150,000, 1.5million? The article gives no info, just 14 have been infected.

15 who just got a 3rd shot - theyve barely even started administering the boosters there.

The problem with picnic is that most people who go dont even go for the acts, they just go to get off their face in a field full of other people.

That said, EP do get great acts sometimes, but it's gotten worse over the years - almost all concerts in Ireland have in that regard.

The use of can't is factually wrong. Regardless of who said it. You've also used it the same way. When talking about virus load. Yes it's higher. This is reflected in the lower effectiveness of vaccines in preventing transmission. But they still do have an effect on it. You're still more likely to ...

Picnic makes too much money, the organisers would surely be looking to run it again next year. I think Laois CoCo's hands were tied - they had to make a decision based on present public health advice which stupidly has a 500 capacity limit for events. Since Govt have not given any definitive dates f...

You're missing my point, if that situation I outlined was to arise the price of houses would be the least of our problems. A civil war will not occur unless outside influences try to stir unrest. Moreoften that not thats how these things happen. The GFA outlines the procedure for reunification - if...

Kerry v Tyrone, Mayo v Dublin. Haven't watched much of Kerry this year, but if they're anywhere near their previous standard they should dispatch of Tyrone who didnt look amazing coming through Ulster. Mayo had a strong 2nd half against Galway, but another erratic performance like that game will see...

Yea curious about this - how/where do you find providers?

Is it just word of mouth type deal - or are they advertised centrally somewhere with ratings etc?

SF but not because I have faith in them - because the only way to get FF/FG to see sense on some positions is to have a very real risk of them not being in power at all. Housing is a good example - up until recently the mantra was let the market fix it (except for all FGs market interventions which ...

The vaccine is available to all. That's not really the point - its that you have to take a novel vaccine with emergency approval only in order to participate. Vaccine was initially given emergency approval because risk/reward was there for vulnerable people who would otherwise have been at serious ...

Welcome to the 2 tier society. The new normal.

Either take a vaccine for a virus with a 99%+ survival rate, or be excluded from every aspect of society.

Most people in this country can barely cook for themselves, nevermind grow their own food. You would think given the high % of one off homes in countryside that we'd have plenty of home growers here, but the reality is most people in this country are absolutely useless and totally dependent on payin...

isha wrote: ↑Fri Jul 30, 2021 9:23 am I don't get the impression of 'more', but rather 'just as' infectious. Maybe I am missing something?

More infectious in that theyll get more of a chance to spread it - vaccine passes mean vaccinated people will not be subject to testing so will be allowed to spread it unhindered.

There we have it - the vaccinated are actually more infectious than the unvaxxed.

Really makes a mockery of vaccine passports now

In other words, they see $$$ and want to get in ahead of any other treatments that might hurt their vaccine income stream.

As vaccine efficiency wanes, it'll get harder and harder to keep selling them if a prophylactic or anti-viral treatment were to arise.
Pfizermectin

Actually to update the above - Sinopharm/Sinovac use inactivated whole virus which is the old method. If you trust the Chinese that is.