The Virus Will Steal Your Pint

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Chief Medical Officer Dept Of Health Dr Tony Holohan

Crazy for the hooch.

It can’t help itself.

This morning.

Speaking on RTÉ’s Morning Ireland, Chief Medical Officer Dr Tony Holohan said:

“Irrespective of the setting, but particularly when that setting is an indoor setting, particular in places where ventilation is poor, particularly where we have use of alcohol – and let’s be honest here, we have a challenge in this country, it is really difficult for us all to maintain public health guidance when it’s mixed in with the use of alcohol.

“But, all of those factors come together to create risks that this virus loves.

“The virus loves indoor settings, it loves close contact between people, and it loves alcohol. And if we give it the opportunity it will transmit very very quickly and that’s what we are seeing.”

Hic.

Country cannot cope with current social contact levels – Holohan (RTÉ)

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66 thoughts on “The Virus Will Steal Your Pint

    1. Daisy Chainsaw

      When will people cop on?

      There’s a huge cluster in Wexford directly related to people in a pub after a funeral.

  1. broadbag

    I wish he’d just say ‘inhibitions drop as alcohol consumption increases and that’s a risk factor’ rather than all this ”the virus loves” guff, that said it would appear a vast amount of the population are rather dim so he probably does need to dumb it down somewhat.

        1. Brother Barnabas

          and some shove their head so far up their own ar$e they think they’re alone in seeing the light

          1. benblack

            What is wrong with you people?

            SOQ has demonstrated his intelligence and ability to process information in an extreme environment with clarity and logical progression.

            I just don’t get the opposition. If I didn’t know any better, I’d think it was satanic.

            The truth being satan’s worst enemy.

      1. Dr.Fart

        this is the first thing I’ve ever agreed with you on, Cian. There’s a reason why “Paddy Irishman” is the butt of that joke format. We weren’t chosen by random selection.

      2. Micko

        If course what Cian says is true. It’s the average.

        Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that. – George Carlin

        1. Junkface

          Every country has their fair share of idiots per population. Except America, they are exceptional in their idiot count.

          1. Junkface

            I have been to Kentucky Micko, and a few other states. You would not believe what people say there.

            That survey must be broken. Ireland’s population is 4.7 million or so, compared to over 300 million in the USA. How are they averaging things out?

          2. Janet, dreams of an alternate universe

            +1 based on pretty much all my previous american clients,
            you’d write a guide book a three year old could follow and they’d still get trapped in a lift, call you on Sunday mornings about light switches and door codes or how to turn on the washer etc etc..thick or illiterate or lazy…or all three ?

          3. Brother Barnabas

            that’s where you’re wrong, junkface – micko absolutely would believe what they say in Kentucky

            have you not been following the rubbish he posts here ?

          4. Micko

            Oh – I have no idea Junkface

            That’s just a thing I found on the web – it could be a load of bull. ;)

            But, sure IQ is just like processing power – kinda like the CPU speed in your computer.

            It’s the software (education) you run that makes the biggest difference,

            And of course IQ drops a lot with age – but apparently your experiential memory (wisdom) makes up for it a lot.

            Apparently the US Army have done a lot of studies into IQ – as it’s a fair way to tell what people are capable of for military roles and there’s a good percentage of the general population that falls below 85 (I think it’s around 80-85 – it’s been a while since I read it)

            And basically the army has no use for them. Can’t teach em to do anything useful.

            I assume that not specific to America – it would be a global phenomenon maybe?

          5. Cian

            @Micko
            All an IQ test does it tell you have good you are at doing IQ tests – not how intelligent you are.

          6. Micko

            @Cian

            When it comes to analytical, academic or problem solving, then yes, IQ tests are an amazing predictor of intelligence. Which is the work that most people are engaged in.

            Of course, when it comes to creativity or social intelligence they are not.

            But the question is, how do you measure those things – creativity etc?

            You can’t – there’s no way to. Hence IQ test being a VERY good starting point to understand general intelligence.

            It’s not perfect, but it’s the best we have.

            To dismiss it outright is silly.

      3. Charger Salmons

        This is a very interesting conversation.
        Shall we flesh it out a bit more ?
        Don’t hold back lads.

        Zippedy doo-dah, zippedy day, etc etc.

        Heh x noirishjokesfromme

    1. E'Matty

      so true. Apparently, we are to believe that the very same people who have mismanaged our health system atrociously over the past decade, are in fact masterful “experts” who’s dictats we should obediently and unquestioningly follow. It’s almost like these “Just listen to the experts” idiots have no knowledge of Irish history and the negligence and mismanagement of our State institutions.

      1. Nigel

        And yet we’re never short of people who know better than them feckin’ experts, so it’s a complete mystery how anything gets mismanaged in this country.

        1. Cian

          I used to think if only we could get taxi drivers to run the country we would live in a Utopia…

          ..but now I think the mantle has passed to anonymous commentards.

        2. E'Matty

          and then there’s the dumb herd animals who pride themselves in not thinking for themselves, instead obediently and unquestioningly following the dictats of supposed “experts”. You’re the lads on 911 who stayed sitting at their desks because they were told to, or on the Titanic who thought the ship would never sink, because the experts told them so. Sheep blindly following voices of authority saying to everyone else “Why won’t you just do what the shephard and sheep dog tell us to do? Don’t they protect us from the wolf?” while failing to realise those same “protectors” wil march them to the slaughterhouse in the end…

          1. Nigel

            Ah yes, stayed at our desks during 911, thought the Titanic wouldn’t sink, went out and socialised during Covid, ignored all the warnings about climate change…

          2. benblack

            Thought Jesus was a mythical figure.

            And, the Bible was a work of fiction.

            And, God doesn’t exist, in fact, he’s dead because Nietzsche said so.

  2. Haroo

    All of this petty quibbling and caviling over phraseology, syntax, semantics etc.

    We know what he meant. If you are that literal you have bigger problems.

    Same goes for Mr Burns in the Dail and his comment about not bailing out the banks. He corrected himself straight after by adding “we didn’t bailout the banks’ shareholders”. Now, you can argue the degree to which that is true in effect and which banks’ shareholders were ultimately protected by stopping contagion etc. but seeing it reported as “Mr Burns says we didn’t bailout the banks” is lazy and clickbait.

    There is so much to criticise FFG and others on. Enough of the nitpicking.

    And my response to anyone who says “denying bailing out the banks is not nitpicking when the damage done blah blah blah”, p*ss off. That is not what I am trying to say.

  3. Ger

    According to the HPSC, there have 0 Covid outbreaks linked to pubs, restaurants or cafés in the past 14 days.

    So what will Nphet do? Close pubs restaurants and cafes.

    Holohan is a fraud, he should have been fired after his attempt to cover up the cervical screening scandal.

      1. Col

        Are you getting that from the “Most likely transmission source” data in the HPSC 14 Day Report?
        I can’t find where it says where people contracted it?

  4. f_lawless

    “Country cannot cope with current social contact levels”

    The title of the article is about the only thing that rings true

  5. anolderman

    My daughter showed me a comedy video from august where an Irish chap explains the covid lock down rules to himself. I cried with laughter at how stupid we all were. As for the masks I see South Korea the exemplar is now spiking. I wonder were they all down in their local Irish pub having the craic _ that will show them n us.

  6. E'Matty

    The health Nazis obsessing over alcohol consumption again. It’s blatantly clear they are using this “crisis” to kill Ireland’s pub culture.

      1. E'Matty

        Amazing response as always Nige. It’s obvious to anyone watching that the measures against pubs are not based in any science or logic. They are clearly seeking to drive them out of business so that we get that lovely “cafe culture” BS those goons were trying to push only a few years ago. Anyway, I’m off out on the lash for the weekend with the gang. We’ll spare a thought for the sad sacks who have been cowering away in their homes since March. The idiot class think if we’re all really good, we’ll get to go “back to normal”. Morons. We’re never going back to the old normal. Wait until that reality dawns on these half wits.

        1. Haroo

          Who leaked our plans? You insolent little mortals. You don’t deserve work and freedom and luxury and… pubs.

          Stop posting about our intentions. I don’t know how you figured out that our goal to control the world and populations is to eradicate alcohol and social distractions, the very things that are used to occupy and distract the masses. We are at war with AB Inbev, Pernot Ricard, Diageo, Heineken and Ashai. They are an extremely powerful lobby but the fools don’t realise we only pretend they influence us.

          And pubs… I spit on them. They do nothing for Ireland. They are not pretty central to the tourism industry which is a big earner so the political elite have decided to eradicate them.

          And the end goal of all this… control for some reason that we haven’t decided yet.

          Wait… no… because we are nazis.

  7. johnnythree

    The Govt are on a hiding to nothing.
    Why are they not using the smartest problem solving strategists in the country? Why are they not going to actual problem solvers. They are relying on really poor. and late data and then expecting a cynical and won out public to police it for them.

    They have three things to do:
    1. Address and fix the border case transmission
    2. Put in proper infection control in nursing homes
    3. Work out how we have such a high hospital infection rate. Up to a few weeks ago over 30% of Irish cases were hospital acquired….

    Fix the above and most of the community transmission will reduce as it won’t be seeded into t he community.
    They have no idea – continual lock downs will not work.

      1. johnnythree

        Exactly. Get someone with strategic problem solving experience who can decide tactics whilst REFERRING to the data. Right now they are all screaming and running from cases.

    1. ( ̄_, ̄ ) AKA Frilly Keane

      but the first thing Acting Leo did was hire a Guru

      A lad who’s background to help manage the oncoming Pandemic (1st) Surge was publically announced and published widely with the description Guru

      like ya can’t get more prestigious and qualified than Guru status

  8. Gavin

    “The virus loves indoor settings, it loves close contact between people, and it loves alcohol.” Sounds like a decent sort on a night out.

    1. Nigel

      To modify a David Cronenberg quote: ‘The [Civid] virus: look at it from its point of view. Very vital, very excited, really having a good time. It’s really a triumph if you’re a virus.’

    1. f_lawless

      It’s amazing how the good folks over at the World Economic Forum are at foretelling these crises. In October 2019, a couple of months before the Covid-19 pandemic was reported to have begun in Wuhan, the WEF hosted “Event 201” which simulated “an outbreak of a novel zoonotic coronavirus transmitted from bats to pigs to people that eventually becomes efficiently transmissible from person to person, leading to a severe pandemic”. What are the odds?

      In July 2020, he World Economic Forum hosted the cybersecurity event, Cyber Polygon, the central theme of which was “the prevention of a ‘digital pandemic’: how to prevent a crisis and to reinforce cybersecurity on all levels”. WEF chairman, Klaus Schwab, warned: “we all know by pay insufficient attention to the frightening scenario of a comprehensive cyber attack which would bring to a complete halt to ..our society as a whole. The Covid-19 crisis would be seen as a small disturbance in comparison”.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGKkXaMfai4

      It’s not hard to see how such an attack may actually be viewed as beneficial to the interests of those WEF elites pushing for heightened population surveillance as a core part of the so called “Great Reset. Shock Doctrine style..

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