It now turns out I cant take my 3 young kids to see Santa this year because I dont have a Covid pass/Digital ID.
Its gone from “its only for a few weeks in pubs & restaurants” to “you can’t take your kids to see Santa” in a few short months – what will they do to me next year?
— KB (@halftwottered) November 1, 2021
Anyone?
Friday: Hail Santa
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Maybe it’s finally time to ditch the Santa persona as the bastion of plastic junk and embrace the truth. The kids of the future will be better for it.
Firm but fair…
Ah, Mr Grinch has showed up.
(Waves). Hi Mr. Cavan! You still dressing up as Santa to save money?
(Runs).
I always wondered how he got down the chimney
Maybe Mary Lou will enlighten us
The government aren’t stopping you seeing Santa. The people who organised it don’t want you. Tough.
100% this
That’s right, George, companies all banded together & invented the whole medical apartheid setup. Lame-assed.
No but all the governments did in some top-secret cabal…
Sure aren’t they all in Glasgow at the moment plotting the latest set of new world order rules and regulations to fluster and frustrate bodger and his online adherents.
Greta Thunberg flew in today apparently- was that by aeroplane and if so::: was it owned by daddy?
And of course here comes soq with his usual nonsensical comments and “questions”, I’m sure one of your fellow conspiracy theorists will be along to provide you with whatever it is you need.
IIs at this stage calling someone a conspiracy theorist the best you can do?
If the cap fits.
The company providing the Santa service decided to use it. Anyone who wants is free to start their own Santa service. I’m sure there are loads who aren’t requiring vaccine certs. This guy just wants a moan.
Stop bandying the word apartheid around you baby, it is an insult to those who suffered under it.
You know that Tony Holohan doesn’t really exist, right?
“A government health pass is tinfoil hat conspiracy theory, that will never happen”
“The pass is only for a few weeks in August until everyones vaccinated”
“We’re only extending the legislation past October just to be extra careful, we won’t use it”
Its funny how things evolve isn’t it?
Is this a government-mandated Santa law?
A Santa clause, if you will.
Ho ho ho
I’m not sure this a tin-foiled conspiracy theory so much as on a par with broken election promises, except here they’re making promises that can’t be kept because there’s a tootlin’ pandemic on. Blame them for what they’re doing wrong or badly, but if we start elevating it into the realm of conspiracy we start blaming shadowy figures behind the other shadowy figures while our lot are just hapless interchangeable pawns so who cares what they do and none of it really matters.
(I suppose you could class politicians making promises they know they can’t keep as a sort of conspiracy but it’s one that can be laid entirely on them and not shadowy global elites.)
We’re a-havin ourselves a rootlin tootlin cowboy shootlin hip smackin rib whackin pyandemic, boys
Nigel, you’ve been at the sherry-bottle again, haven’t you?
employer doing everything in their power to keep their elderly employees safe.
Again, 100% this!
The sense of entitlement is enraging
Fatlad, even with a vaccine your chances with Covid are worse than mine. You’d want be careful visiting Santa.
And why’s that exactly?
Obesity is one of the key indicators of vulnerability to Covid.
BS handle does not equate to real life. Is your name actually E’Matty? Are you, in fact, a sentient mat? You see where I’m going with this.
That’s MOPErs for you. THEY are the real victims in all this pandemic lark.
Oh, you’re a victim too Daisy. It just hasn’t dawned on you yet…
vaccinated transmit at the same rate as unvaccinated though!
they don’t you know.
1. vaccinated are less likely to catch Covid.
2. if they do catch Covid, they are contagious for less time.
3. while contagious they have similar viral load
Overall a vaccinated person transmits less than unvaccinated.
Year long studies prove thats false though Cian.
Results of study tracking vaccinated and unvaccinated found that vaccinated are just as likely to transmit to household as unvaccinated. Been splashed across the papers too – youve surely seen it
IN A HOUSEHOLD. If someone in a household has covid they’re likely to pass it on to others LIVING IN THE SAME HOUSE even if vaccinated, because, y’know, people living together in the same house and it’s difficult to isolate, distance, ventilate all the time. Fortunately in that situation if they do catch it they’re less likely to end up in hospital because they’re vaccinated.
It’s ok Mr T
Covid knows if you’re living in a gaff together that you’re fair game, but if you’re working on top of each other in a chipper it’ll leave ya alone.
Soundest virus EVER!!
Jack London mocks your wimpishness and intellectual dishonesty.
Who?
You keep bringing that guys up?
What’s the deal? Did Jack hurt you?
He’s the guy who wrote the James Bond films.
Look Nigel..
If you’re not even gonna be TRY to be funny or quippy I’m not going to play anymore.
Deal?
‘TRY to be funny or quippy’
Will you be starting soon?
“Will you be starting soon?”
Aaaah.. ha ha ha!
I know you won’t believe this – but I wrote that exact comeback down on a piece of paper 20 mins ago. Put it in an envelope and handed it to my beautiful assistant.
Well, I had “I’ll start when you start” to be precise. But close enough God damn it!
Yer gettin predictable in yer old age Nidge my boy
Look at the state of what I have to work with.
I know ;(
I know that you haven’t been handed the best cards in life.
I feel for you, I really do…
Even with all the ribbing I give you – I always say ‘you can’t spell Broadsheet with out “Bro” ‘ eh eh?
Remember that… you’ll always have ME.
But look, chin up. Things will get better and all than. Stiff upper lip old boy etc
Always a silver cloud, kittens and puppies, laughing children and all that good stuff.
To quote Jack London.
Misses chance to use “rubbing” in gag. Relies on previous “Jack” material instead…
Look, I’m not gonna set you up like this if you’re not gonna play along.
Just be thankful for the attention.
Cian, to be spouting such utter drivel at this stage is either wilful ignorance or you really are badly-named, since you’re clearly not the keenest knife in the drawer.
“Vaccinated are less likely to catch Covid”, a-ha-ha-ha-ha, how do you imagine that works, you time-waster!
Go away & stop making a show of yourself & insulting Nigel’s intelligence.
But not the same viral load. That’s the good news for the vaccinated
How are they “keeping them safe” Paul? The vaccinated are clearly just as capable of infection and transmission or did you miss the part where 3500 healthcare workers are out of work this week?
‘just as capable’
No they’re not.
‘3500 healthcare workers are out of work this week?’
Without vaccines it might have been a bloodbath.
“It might have been a bloodbath”. Based on what Nige? Wishful thinking?
Based on the numbers of unvaccinated people who have died from or been left disabled by, covid.
HSPC death figures: 11 Sept – 9 October
-118 Deaths with lab confirmed Covid infection
-20/118 (16.9%) were unvaccinated.
-98/118 (83.1%) had at least one dose.
-94/118 (79.7%) were fully vaccinated
Fancy a bet on the direction this will continue to go? I bet for Oct to November, the rate at which the vaccinated die versus the unvaccinated will continue to deteriorate, which will then be the trend going forward. Medium to long term, I’d also be willing to bet the unvaccinated will have better general health outcomes than the vaccinated, across ALL major illnesses and diseases. You’re on that train now. No turning back. Good luck.
– 17% from, what 8% of the population should be worrying for anyone in that 8%. Hospitalisation rates are even worse, aren’t they?
– and what were death rates like before the vaccines and during the early stages of the rollout?
They don’t want the unhinged neat their employees.
Yeah, except us “unhinged” types have been getting it right every time whilst you Covidiot believers keep getting it wrong. Enjoy your degraded immune system for life sucker!
‘what will they do to me next year?’
Make you sleep outside in a manger.
The solution to this is simple- boycott the business- take your money else where.
It will soon be like the pubs where you can gain entry with a Tesco barcode- and the Karens will be none the wiser.
Actually- you probably can already.
Priceless.
Boycott a business that has refused to serve you.
The windmills tilt at themselves now.
I have a pass, I’ll be boycotting
Good for you Gavin- being pro vaccine and anti mandate are not mutually exclusive- at all.
Cian, I think you’re under the false impression that everyone who is vaccinated supports vaccine passes.
Yup that is the theme all along- that once people get jabbed they lose all sense of decency.
Except they don’t, and they won’t, especially now that over even relatively short periods of time, vaccinated have been proven to be just as infectious.
Santa is old and obese… protect the vulnerable you monster….
A consequence you say? For my actions?
NEVER.
Aren’t the ‘Ask a Broadsheet Reader‘ posts usually submissions from other readers, not random twitter screengrabs?
Half the “articles” on BS these days are random twitter screengrabs.
@KB
People here are panicking because the hoop that they had to jump through for their “freedoms” isn’t having the desired effect they were promised.
So you’ve two choices.
Just get a mates cert and ignore them.
OR an even better idea – don’t go to Santa and don’t give out about it.
Live with the choice you’ve made and know that you’ve done right by you and your kids.
Micheal Martin is literally on the cover of the Irish Examiner today talking about “looking forward to the expansion of boosters” for ALL and some of these clowns are clapping him on.
It’s starting to dawn on them that they’ve been made fools of and someone needs to be punished.
That’s you that is…
‘It’s starting to dawn on them’
Yeah and the Storm Is Coming.
“Paging chief clown to the OR”
On time as always you are…
Trust The ‘It’s starting to dawn on them’ Plan.
“Yeah oh yeah… well… yeah maybe you’re right Mick. But ye know what – you’re in QAnon. Yeah. So there!
Look everyone! Micko’s in Qanon and loves Trump or something”
Pfft…
Try harder to have a point other than that Nigel.
I know you have it in you.
I believe in you.
Oh no, Micko, like everything else, you’re the lite version. Qanon lite.
Looks like my belief in you has been misplaced.
Qanon American rubbish it is so.
No, no, no, reading is basic. You are Qanon-lite. Qanon is all TRUST THE PLAN. You’re just ‘It’s starting to dawn on them.’ Qanon is all ‘The vaccine is a crime against humanity and a plot to enslave the human race!’ You’re all – ‘Well I got covid and now I’m immune therefore pandemic over where are my freedoms this is a crime against me to enslave me!’
Woh… revelation!
You know, I think you’re right. After months of accusing EVERYONE who doesn’t agree with you of being a Qanon member – I’ve finally cracked! This time it’s actually worked – like a jewish lad in the Spanish Inquisition.
Nigel has shown me the light – Praise be Brother Nigel!!!
I AM QANON!!!!!
Now, where do I sign to get my AR15 assault rifle and my Fawn outfit to storm the Convention Centre.
Like this dude https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-protester-capitol-antifa-qa-idUSKBN29C0BP
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Pssst… just checking here. Do ya think we’re gonna do this back and forth all day or what? Coz I was thinking of going to the cinema. Ben told me the new Dune is good.
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Yeah… I’m just gonna go to the cinema. Now you’ve got what you want.
I mean, you act dumb enough to be Qanon, I suppose.
i used to love drinking 3litres of vodka in the morning and then driving my kids to school. now the government are saying im not allowed to drive my kids to school cause id be wasted.
similar circumstances, not having a vaccination cert, and driving drunk are both harming society. you arent forced to vaccinate or drink, but if you do, you are a danger to society.
“ similar circumstances”.
Yup. Totally comparable.
See @KB
Do you see the mental gymnastics these guys will do to persuade themselves that they have done the right thing.
Stay away from these nuts. They are not normal.
1985- I was a crazy religious year- I had moving statues and everything.
2021- You wanna see blind faith? Hold my coat.
You’re also bringing back the AIDS scare.
AIDS was not a scare- it was and is real.
Go educate yourself, instead of waffling.
Public Discussion with Professor Nikolai Petrovsky on MRNA Technology.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnkCA9V-1yE
But you can hardly deny there was a lot of adjacent and harmful scaremongering, scapegoating, moral outrage and denialism embedded deep within the culture and politics of the time, and beyond, right?
You never bothered watching to see what Nikolai Petrovsky had to say now did you?
You couldn’t have in that time frame.
No. Stop trying to rickroll me.
I suppose you could still respond to my question, but I won’t get my hopes up.
Take this kid off line please?
Thought not.
Won’t somebody think of the Elves ?
no sitting on Santa’s knee this year
Go with it – kids are better off without the fat red creepy chap.
What’s this modern obsession with the Santa Experience, and pumpkin patches, and such?
Herself wanted to find a ‘good Santa experience’ for ours this year. Not the like ‘crap one’ we saw a few years ago with nephews, this had to be a ‘good one’.
Besides the unrealistic expectation of an immersive north pole experience on an open farm somewhere 20 miles outside of the city, our twins are one and cry if new adults look at them up close. What is the expected result of dragging them into a darkened log cabin to meet a stranger? Another photo of a wailing child.
That aside, sounds like there’s a good opportunity for a my body my choice Santa experience going for himself. Ben Gilroy would make a good Santa I’d say.
Unvaccinated people are more likely to get Covid-19. A positive case of Covid-19 can shut down a business for two weeks. The Santa business only lasts about 7 weeks. The man is a threat to their business due to his own choice, tough.
Vaccinated people are more likely to contract Covid-19, that’s been established weeks ago. A good question is why?
https://www.ukcolumn.org/index.php/article/what-explains-rising-cases-among-the-vaccinated
Thought provoking article. Thanks for sharing
No bother.
It has not, in fact, been established.
Read the article, it uses official UK gov data.
Not to say that.
Go to the data it references.
I saw no data establishing that vaccinated people are more likely to contract covid than unvaccinated.
Oh, the Bart Simpson defence, Nigel.
Eat my shorts.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/conspiracy-theories-run-wild-covid-lockdown-sceptics-jskg3wrtv
At first glance the slick production looks like the work of Sky News or the BBC but this is not a conventional news channel. Brian Gerrish, a former Royal Navy lieutenant commander, nods in approval as his co-presenter tells the audience: “The Public Health England report seems to show very clearly that should you fall ill with Covid-19 as a vaccinated person, you’re much more likely to die as a result.”
The untrue claim passes unchecked and the programme continues with an attack on the BBC’s coverage of a lockdown protest and suggestions that the restrictions will not be lifted on July 19. Gerrish describes vaccinations as “being stabbed with a chemical”.
Yes, I’m aware of that hit piece. They’re taking legal action against The Times (who’ve been compromised for a while).