#Reims ce soir Terrasse libre au moins 200 personnes et en face les terrasses presque vides de bars!! #Manif28aout pic.twitter.com/uFKDtMrHdq
— LE GÉNÉRAL 0fficiel 💎 (@LE_GENERAL__OFF) August 25, 2021
Sit down next to me.
Yesterday.
Reims, France.
Patrons enjoy a picnic next to cafés policed by the vaccine passport.
Couldn’t happen here.
No.
Or could it?
No.
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Maybe President Macron on his Dublin visit today could be asked une question about the Rheims model of picnique sur les rues.
No it couldn’t happen here- so much for the fighting Irish eh?
Fighting Irish is more than likely a term coined by emigrants looking back at the old country through rose-tinted spectacles. We’re docile, conservative and get our knickers in a twist about the most banal things, generally speaking.
If the scandals unearthed over the last 20 years alone weren’t enough to push a significant number of the population to take to the streets then I’m not sure where our tipping point is. Perhaps it’s when we’ve gone off the cliff edge and are hurtling towards certain doom?
The shades of political beige available to us on election days reflect that – those voted into power are reflective of those who vote for them. Where is our social conscience? When do we get a system of government that takes the social view and stresses less on the economic? We are surely a society first notwithstanding the fact that economic matters are a part of that. Look in the face of our political leaders and see yourself reflected back.
I’d posit for consideration that the advent of social media and the various forums for expressing outrage, idiocy, clarion calls into the void etc. haven’t helped in terms of real action. Perhaps these outlets and ensuing interactions give people a sense that they are active in expressing their outrage though ineffectively so? Could it be that Huxley’s soma is that now provided by social media? Provide the people with an artificial means of ego-massage and the indulgence of vanities and they’ll stay in their homes content to freely opine and wax-lyrical? Thoughts?
Yes there may be some truth in what you are saying about social media, especially now with all the censorship but it also a great tool for communications, when used right. It is very much a moving goal post where at present, you are way more likely to find more engaging political content on an app like TokTok than Facebook. YouTube may still be the main player but is losing ground fast as people realise there is nothing special about its format.
Generally we are still in that post colony mind-set where we figure out how to get around authority rather than challenge it and that is the core difference between the Irish and the French- or even the English. The first glimmer of hope was the water protests of course but right now, there are vested (paid?) interests doing their level best to paint all dissent as ‘far right’- when it is nothing of the sort.
This has come into sharp focus with the entertainment industry where they are now cornered and are either going to lie down and take it or- come out fighting. I really hope they take to the streets because even the last freedom march in Belfast was about half live music and club scene people- so what is so different here?
I work within the entertainment industry and I’m unhappy to report that most people are still with the ‘narrative’ – endless nonsense discussions about EP “please sir, can we have a party?” “It’s not fair!” Etc. It’s a classic bait/switch and everyone seem to be falling for it. I can understand it to a point, a last hooley before we’re locked up for the winter to be released again next spring – but only if you have the ‘booster’ of course.
I think the days of the open net have vanished, SOQ, to be replaced by Social Media’s neo-fascist technocracy.
While the net had a lot of potential & was even interesting for quite a while, Social Media, a performative medium where everyone is playing a part, presenting an image & nobody is who they appear to be, has had hugely detrimental effects, it’s scrambling people’s minds & hacking their behaviour in ways we are only beginning to discover.
Social Media is the new cigarettes, you know it’s bad for you, you know you should give it up (or maybe just cut back a bit?) but it’s addictive & that’s the problem, you’re either caught in the Fake World or living in the Real World, balance is very hard to achieve.
Social Media is Life reduced to the level of a video game, with crap graphics.Kick the habit or suffer mental health problems, it’s as stark as that,
Inmates at a prison in Arkansas in the United States have been prescribed a medicine used to deworm livestock to combat Covid, despite warnings from health officials that the antiparasitic drug should not be used to treat the coronavirus.
Washington County’s sheriff confirmed that the jail’s health provider had been prescribing the drug but didn’t say how many inmates at the 710-bed facility had been given ivermectin, AP reports.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2021/aug/26/coronavirus-live-news-moderna-withholds-16m-vaccines-in-japan-over-contamination-concerns-sydney-hospitals-struggle-to-cope
Nice bit of experimenting on prison populations
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“Whatever a doctor prescribes, that is not in my bailiwick,” Sheriff Tim Helder told members of the Washington County quorum court.
It comes after the federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) told Americans to stop taking ivermectin instead of getting a Covid shot, after a spike in calls to the Mississippi poison control centre.
At least two people have been hospitalised with potential ivermectin toxicity after ingesting the drug, the state’s poison control centre said Monday.”
The same fda that approved Oxycontin..
Whatever..
Ivermectin is also licensed for human use- 4 billion doses of it so far- there are many drugs used in both humans and animals.
Ivermectin is a medication that is used to treat parasite infestations. In humans, this includes head lice, scabies, river blindness (onchocerciasis), strongyloidiasis, trichuriasis, ascariasis, and lymphatic filariasis.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivermectin
I sometimes wonder if people even realise that they are big pharma shilling?
covid isn’t a parasite. whatever about taking a vaccine you don’t trust, why on earth would you take ivermectin for covid?
Apparently it has strong anti viral properties too. But, its cheap as chips so no money to be made out of it.
i have some hydrogen peroxide i used for cleaning mould off the bathroom window sill. apparently it has anti-viral properties and is as cheap as chips, but i wouldn’t take that either.
I have hydrogen peroxide in a hair dye kit (those flowing, honey blonde, locks don’t come from nature!!). I wouldn’t use it as a cure for anything but my dark roots.
Key word you used yourself there Sameoh
apparently
Put down the internet boy
You’re getting blisters from it now
Folks- if you don’t like the answer then go do you own research instead of sneering at others eh?
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=ivermectin+covid-19&atb
Anyways- the Ivermectin debate will soon be pretty academic I expect.
https://www.technologynetworks.com/biopharma/news/uk-approves-first-monoclonal-antibody-treatment-for-covid-19-352949
I don’t have the knowledge to “do my own research”. But Cochrane Library do.
And their conclusions is:
Based on the current very low‐ to low‐certainty evidence, we are uncertain about the efficacy and safety of ivermectin used to treat or prevent COVID‐19. The completed studies are small and few are considered high quality. Several studies are underway that may produce clearer answers in review updates. Overall, the reliable evidence available does not support the use of ivermectin for treatment or prevention of COVID‐19 outside of well‐designed randomized trials.
https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD015017.pub2/full
If a doctor says something that supports the idea of a conspiracy you choose to believe it. If they say something that doesn’t you don’t.
So explain why India are using it Cian? A country which on paper should be ravaged with Covid-19, but it is not.
Cian, you can’t even see the plausible deniability in those quotes from the world-famous Virogy dept. at The Cochrane Library? The words are practically squirming on the page yet they do not state, now matter how much wishful thinking you apply, what you seem to think they do.
Anti-virals exist, they’re called that for a reason, there’s far more evidence of their efficacy than there is for the mRNA injections but nobody’s forcing anyone to use Anti-virals, are they, quite the opposite, in fact, despite the fact that they are properly-tested & licenced. Why, if they damage you, you can even sue the manufacturer.
over 5 billion doses of the various Covid vaccines so far… so it must be safer than Ivermectin?
A shill, by definition, has a relationship with the person/organisation they are supporting.
Nope- the time period is crucially important. The main difference between the two is there is no medium or long term safety data for the vaccines- there couldn’t possibly be.
Always “warnings from health officials”. Health officials, eh? Doctors, are they? What are their qualifications, apart from brown-nosing their way up the Public Service ranks, which you do by being a Bureaucrat? Do they have PhDs?
I want to get rid of my GP & get a Health Official to deal with my health, they’re totally Official & all about Health, after all.
Health Officials.
Right.
Fair play to them, they make the Irish look like cap tipping serfs
Serfs?! Oh OK. Dont worry about the efficacy of ivermectin or anything. Thats my smile for today. Thanks Gavin
Given that the second largest country in the world- meaning India- has licensed Ivermectin for use against CoVid-19, both as treatment and as a prophylactic- the efficacy argument has been well and truly settled- at least to them.
It might somewhat explain why India- with such a low vaccine rate- also has such a low incidence of serious CoVid-19 maybe?
Yes, SOQ, real vaccines do not, in general, infect or damage cells, unlike mRNA injections, which by design produce one of the three most damaging effects of infection, the spike protein. Real vaccines, Innoculation with dead or attenuated viral particles, rarely cause any cells to become infected, yet they stimulate the entire Immune System, not just Antibody response, which is the last line of immune defence.
Antivirals begin to attack the virus at the earliest stage of infection, similar to how an Innoculated immune system would. Even if mRNA injections work, which is looking increasingly doubtful, they’re designed to stimulate a resonse that emerges far later in the progress of an infection.
This is also the reason the “get jabbed to protect others” mantra is utter garbage, if the treatment being offered was Innoculation, a real vaccine, it would be true, the immune response would reduce transmission by reducing the infection to minimal levels, in fact a recently innoculated person might experience an immune response to the presence of the virus that prevents any cells from becoming infected, close to total immunity. Even the manufacturers of the mRNA injections merely claim it will reduce the most extreme effect of infection, death.
Real Vaccines & Antiviral drugs get their retaliation in early, mRNA injections do nothing to stop the progress of the infection, they merely seek to protect the host from experiencing the very worst effects & therefore are hugely inferior to antivirals or innoculation in terms of reducing transmission.
Goodness gracious!!! I do not know if there are prizes handed out for this sort of thing but if there are you should be awarded the biggest and shiniest one there is.
That is the most mangled and corrupted and ignorant and downright idiotic interpretation of the scientific fundamentals behind the vaccines I have ever seen -and I have seen some absolute doozies. You take the biscuit though!
I am actually forwarding this to others. I know lots who will get a tremendous belly laugh out of this. Pray tell where do you source your information?
Andrew, let’s walk you through it.
You know that every other Vaccine for a virus in history was an Innoculation with virions?
You know that these mRNA injections are not Innoculations & that the definition of a vaccine had to be completely changed to even call them vaccines, which somewhat makes a mockery of having definitions in the first place?
You know what mRNA is?
You know that the first person who received one of these injections became the first human ever to have mRNA floating around their body?
I’ve read a few of your posts, you haven’t done the work & you don’t do a good impression of someone who has, they’re unconvincing, generalised spoof, what’s more, you clearly know this. Let’s see your knowledge, rather than your information-free, fact-free dismissals & ludicrous posts.
Virology lectures are the source of my information, I won’t bother asking where you got yours, you clearly have none.
The Game’s Up, Timewaster.
What happened in India this spring?
Why did 400,000 (officially; unofficial estimates go as high as 4,000,000) die if it is so effective?
India had a spike, as many countries do, but it’s over all infection rates are very low.
India’s overall infection rates are very low ???????
Really????
You must live in the alternative reality of K Kavan
Sitting in the road, outside establishments you’re not allowed into anyway, to pwn teh covids!
Vive les ratlécheurs!!
how civilised
The French are a nation. They built their unity from the disparate peoples who inhabited the largest country in Europe around the concept of “The Republic”, a concept the Irish have pretensions about too but we, we are not a republic, we’re barely even a nation, with our culture mainly derived from that of our long-term persecutors, the English.
The Irish are followers, a sub-nation of Britain, well-practiced in the traitorous arts of backstabbing, ratting out & forelock-tugging. We never felt comfortable as an independent country & sighed with relief when we found the final resting-place for our putative sovereignty, the neo-fascist EU & rule by diktat from unelected technocrats in the Brussels politbureau.
As for loons who tout fake mRNA vaccines, while dissing drugs who’s efficacy is already proven, well you should try to survive without antibiotics, they all work effectively on other mammals, also.
What a moronic line of reasoning yet exactly what you’d expect from the “Science comes from TV” brigade.
We take a lot of our ideas and tastes from Blighty true, but many ideas fads, tastes and trends that originate in the USA also find footfall in dear impressionable Eire. As a former Tanaiste famously noted, we are closer to Boston than to Berlin.
That Tánaiste was referring to Economics rather than Culture & realistically, there’s very little of US culture we’ve imbibed that has not made it’s way to us through UK TV channels & other media. We are mostly influenced by US culture to the degree that UK culture is too.
I disagree K- as someone who has lived both in UK (Ni and GB) and ROI- I think ROI, or at least a certain class within ROI, are very much more influenced by the US.
Take health care for example, UK is near fully NHS and there is very little private yet in ROI, it is up to 50%. The same can be said of social housing.
Oh Shut Up, you insufferable bore
You know how to shut me up? Keep scrolling.
I would argue that both countries were welfare states but that this has been eroded, I would argue equally, in both, by the baleful influence of Globalised Neo-Liberalism or American Capitalism, as we used to call it.
We could debate it but rather let’s imagine what sort of tool you’d have to be to post the comment andrew just did. Yeuch, eh?
He really is a timewaster & I for one, appreciate your always interesting comments.
I’m all in favour of people taking the streets away from motor traffic, so that looks good to me.
That’s one of the weakest virtue signals I’ve ever witnessed, Nigel.
Don’t care. It’s what I think.
Well, Nigel, I had assumed you’d be someone who believes in stopping Climate Change, then the Earth’s rotation & the tide going in & out.
It’s all been sorted, anyway, we just depopulate with new vaccines, reproductive health advice & healthcare, according to Bill Gates, anyway.
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