Got my Covid booster cert mailed to me today and had it uploaded to the app in less than 10 seconds. The authorities get a hard time from people like me and sometimes get a hard time from actual me but they have done a phenomenal job with the vaccines and certification process.
— Conor Pope (@conor_pope) January 8, 2022
From top; Irish Times’ Consumer Affairs correspondent Conor Pope and his tweet that prompted online derision
This afternoon.
Via Irish Times:
“Good man,” another user said. “Thumbs up Virtue signalling to the max and adding to the mass, accepted discrimination of your fellow man at the sane time. Pathetic.”
Then there was the person who said “Enjoy your slavery” and the other who simply said “twat”.
Several people suggested that the Covid Cert was a “leper pass” while one person confidently told me that my “tweet won’t age well.”
Their assessment was echoed by a person who said they had taken “a screen shot for when you delete this tweet, and you will”.
Someone else urged their followers to remember my name and the names of others who have ever voiced their support for a vaccination programme “when the kids start dying”.
…My innocuous tweet lost me at least one fan. “I actually thought this guy had a brain but just another zombie sleep walking us into a totalitarian facist (sic) state,” he said.
Another user wondered “how Conor Pope or anyone who uses this track & trace can look their children in the eye is beyond me given what it means for their future”.
Firm but fair?
Only you can decide.
Meanwhile…
The pandemic has, in my opinion, brought out the worst in the irish character. The twitching curtains, the talk to joe brigade, the virtue signalling, the high moral ground, our resignation and blind compliance to authority. Some will say it has brought out the best. Don’t see it
— Turlough O'Donnell (@TurloughDonnell) January 11, 2022
In fairness.
NearForm did a really great job on the app, and a bargain to boot.
Salesforce and IBM did the booking system and has worked exceptionally well.
Plus, they weren’t affected by the HSE ransomware attack that crippled the rest of the health service.
IT systems can be procured by the government quickly and cost effectively, if done right.
We need more of this, and less of the PPARS/Pulse debacles.
Well done, Skeptic, point entirely missed. See that end of the stick you’ve grasped?
It’s the Wrong End.
It’s almost as if Conor Pope was hoping for the reaction he got…
So it’s his fault that they reacted that way?
Play stupid games win stupid prizes. Maybe you should give him a big hug to cheer him up.
Well the reactionaries are definitely stupid, that’s for sure.
So baiting them is acceptable?
Seriously, it’s like dangling your mickey in a bowl of piranhas and complaining that it got bitten off afterwards.
I’m not sure who’s worse, him for doing it or you for defending it.
Poor deluded sheeple snowflakes, indulging in an absolute screamer of a mass formation psychosis having been so very triggered by a tweet.
A tweet, like?
I’m sure Jordan Peterson or Ewan McKenna or whatever spokesgob the antis are all in thrall to this week will be along to tell them how to react.
@Doxxy. Going off on something of a tangent there.
Welcome to the conversation. Not sure what your trying to add to it.
Wife got hers I am still waiting
Ask her real nice, david.
So the point of Conor’s article is that there are a high number of morons on Twitter? That’s hardly news.
Another Irish Times man child.
Oh, I’m sorry, I thought being mocked, or worse, was a serious problem, which is why your battle against the global genocide is so vague and low-key.
Nigel, that doesn’t make sense. They are like scared babies though the men in that newspaper.
You’ve written in comments that you don’t explicitly express what you actually think in terms of the global gencide because you’ll get mocked for it. Perhaps you’re not in a position to call others scared babies.
Besides, I kind of approve of articles like this every now and then. Using copy generated by idiots abusing you online and getting paid for it? Nice.
Brave, brave Sir Bodger!
Apology accepted, I assume, Nigel. Fair play to you.
No, Niall, that’s not the point at all, at all. Are you being disingenuous or have you recently suffered cranial trauma?
top of the class with ya young pope. you’re the best boy.
Before Twitter an Irish Times journalist went in to a cubicle in a public toilet and wrote their name on the back of the door. A week later they reported back what was written underneath.
People like Pope gives the authorities a hard time? ‘Reporters’ then? Sure Conor. Your media and media pals are bought by the ‘authorities’.
At this stage, you have to laugh at the ludicrousness of the Irish Meeja & the semi-literate goons who work there.
It’s my misfortune to know a few of them but, luckily, the Fake Pandemic Lockdowns have meant I’ve not been bumping into them & having to tell them “would you ever f*ck off with yourself”.
I’ve assumed this Pope guy is some sort of journo, right? He’s not just an average Joe Goon?
Post-hipster Esther Rantzen.
Can his dog say “sausages”?
He was sent in a root vegetable that looks like a mickey.
Not one that looks like Ireland?
Brilliant, Nigel
He’s a journo and you are an average joe goon.
He’s no journalist. A hyped up PR man is all Pope is. Though I must say I enjoy the fact the article lists out many of the replies he received. Great publicity for the opposition movement. None seem particularly nasty or abusive either. Just calling it as it is. Love it.
Haha you antivaxxers are not ‘the opposition movement’, you’re a very very small and odd minority.
I did find the comment about him deleting a tweet in the future very funny. I’ve witnessed this first hand back in my (long since departed) Twitter days. He made a point I disagreed with. When I argued (very politely, never insulting or abusive) against his point – and gathered large support In doing so- he discreetly disappeared said tweet much later in the day. Not at that moment but much later when nobody was watching. He also rather unsportingly simultaneously blocked me. He plays to his own rules does our Conor.
It’s heartbreaking to see people using these covid passes. They’re living in complete ignorance about the horrible world they’re creating.
Fair play to any vaccinated person who refuses to use them.
Stop, lads, you’re breaking Bono’s heart.
Last year this Pope of fake news was telling people to ignore any talk of Vaccine side-effects –
Nothing can disrupt the agenda : Vaxland über alles!!!
({Remember Nuremberg)
Why? You popping over for a rally?
Remember when Doctors were put on trial for unlawful medical experiments?
You and the other agents of the FakeVax are risking everything to shrill for your masters of Harm.
“just following orders” might not be enough to save yyou.
‘Remember when Doctors were put on trial for unlawful medical experiments?’
Like the ones selling ivermectin prescriptions online? Nuremberg seems like a long way to go for medical fraud.
Your wilful ignorance is no excuse.
http://www.cirp.org/library/ethics/nuremberg/
The voluntary consent of the human subject is absolutely essential. This means that the person involved should have legal capacity to give consent; should be so situated as to be able to exercise free power of choice, without the intervention of any element of force, fraud, deceit, duress, overreaching, or other ulterior form of constraint or coercion; and should have sufficient knowledge and comprehension of the elements of the subject matter involved as to enable him to make an understanding and enlightened decision.
Exactly, it’s completely unsuitable for the Ivermectin grifters profting off disinformation victims.
People want Ivermectin, Nleg, it’s one of the three wonder-drugs, according to the WHO. What’s more, unlike the fake vaccines, it actually works & you’re left alive, uninjured & immune.
What’s more, you don’t have to keep taking it til your luck runs out & you die, which is how the boosters work.
“Ivermectin”? – total non sequitur (again) from you.
From a few years back:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3043740/
In 2015, the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine, in its only award for treatments of infectious diseases since six decades prior, honoured the discovery of ivermectin (IVM), a multifaceted drug deployed against some of the world’s most devastating tropical diseases. Since March 2020, when IVM was first used against a new global scourge, COVID-19, more than 20 randomized clinical trials (RCTs) have tracked such inpatient and outpatient treatments. Six of seven meta-analyses of IVM treatment RCTs reporting in 2021 found notable reductions in COVID-19 fatalities, with a mean 31% relative risk of mortality vs. controls. During mass IVM treatments in Peru, excess deaths fell by a mean of 74% over 30 days in its ten states with the most extensive treatments. Reductions in deaths correlated with the extent of IVM distributions in all 25 states with p < 0.002. Sharp reductions in morbidity using IVM were also observed in two animal models, of SARS-CoV-2 and a related betacoronavirus. The indicated biological mechanism of IVM, competitive binding with SARS-CoV-2 spike protein, is likely non-epitope specific, possibly yielding full efficacy against emerging viral mutant strains.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34466270/
I love the idea that any random drug that wins a Nobel is therefore a panacea.
No random drug has won a Noble Prize – only Ivermectin.
It’s a cure for parasites – is that why you fear it?
If I ever have parasites I’ll be sure to use it. But not for covid.
You really are proud of your total ignorance of virology, nay, biology, aren’t you, Nigel. Cock-a-hoop with your utter cluelessness, deeply besotted by being the top ignoramus in your field.
Best of all, for someone like me who, uncharitably, quite likes guffawing at thickos, you usually squeeze in at least one piece of outrageous medical disinformation into your posts, which are flavoured with a touching belief that you’re the smartest boy in the room, while you spew out nonsense, fairy stories & fake science, based, apparently on your Far Right Politics, a desire to obey authority & a belief that everyone should follow suit.
Don’t go changing.
We love you just the way you are.
You and hmmm are the same person.
I am proudly ignorant of what most of your comments say.
Just a reminder for the Ivermectin fans that Merck, the company that invented Ivermectin (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivermectin), have advised against using it to treat Covid-19: https://www.merck.com/news/merck-statement-on-ivermectin-use-during-the-covid-19-pandemic/
That article is a year old almost. February 4, 2021. Their company scientists are continuing to examine emerging studies of its use. (I don’t know whether it works or not by the way).
Let’s hope their pill is a success.
Smug and smarmy Pope is not suppressing his critics in the most smug and smarmy way
https://twitter.com/conor_pope/status/1481305213650800640