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Saturday.
Berlin, Germany.
A crowd of people whistling and cheering, and with few masks in sight, marched through downtown Berlin from the Brandenburg Gate ahead of a rally on a wide boulevard that runs through the city’s Tiergarten park.
Protesters held up home-made placards featuring slogans that included “Corona, false alarm,” “We are being forced to wear a muzzle,” “Natural defence instead of vaccination” and “End the corona panic — bring fundamental rights back.”
They chanted, “We’re here and we’re loud, because we are being robbed of our freedom.”
The demonstration, entitled “The end of the pandemic — freedom day,” was planned for weeks and drew people from various parts of Germany. Police used bullhorns to chide participants to keep to distancing rules and to wear masks.
Getty/AP/AFP
Meanwhile…
Um.
Ragbag?
Anti-Covid protest draws ragbag of conspiracy theorists to Berlin (Derek Scally, Irish Times)
This afternoon.
The Convention Centre, Dublin.
Sinn Féin President Mary Lou McDonald arrives for a Dáil session sporting a perspex balaclava face shield….
Meanwhile….
This afternoon.
Convention Centre, Dublin.
Taoiseach Micheál Martin arriving for a sitting of the Dail wearing a bespoke face mask featuring his name alongside a tiny defiant tricolour for added protection.
A selfish Dublin city centre shopper’s mask allows her a sneaky supply of fresh oxygen
Stop that!
This afternoon.
Valencia, Spain has placed a ban on wearing masks with valves.
To wit:
The valve allows unfiltered air to escape from the mask into a sterile environment. While there’s no known difference between masks with and without valves in terms of personal protection, a mask with a valve isn’t going to protect the people around you – hence the problem….
Government of Valencia Bans Face Masks with Valves! (EuroWeekly)
Earlier: Dispensary
Dispensary
at
This morning.
Connolly Station, Dublin.
Graeme Kelly writes:
Face masks €2.50 for 1…
Pricey, but If it saves one life it’ll be worth it.
FIGHT!
Meanwhile…
Yesterday.
UK’s Talk Radio.
Piers Corbyn, brother of Jeremy Corbyn describes mandatory mask wearing as “complete madness”.
The Late Late Show, February 29
Ryan Tubridy: “Are face masks worth a damn?”
Professor Luke O’Neill: “They are if you are infected.”
Tubridy:”If you’re the infected person?”
O’Neil: “Yeah, the number one advice is to stop you coughing. I could cough on you but the face mask will trap the virus. If you’re not infected you have no reason to wear a face mask. Two reasons. One, people fidget with it anyway, you know? And secondly it goes in through the eyes as well. This evil virus will penetrate the eyes and that’s not covered anyway. There is no evidence that wearing a face mask will protect you at all. The main reason is to stop you spreading it.”
Tubridy: “If you don’t have this,.”
O’Neill: “There is no need to wear a face mask ever. Absolutely not.”
Tubridy: “At all?”
O’Neill: “At all. That’s the recommendation.”
Turbridy: “So why are people panicking a little bit about…”
O’Neill:”They’ve seen too many horror movies. ”
Meanwhile…
The Tonight Show, April 30.
Professor Luke O’Neill: “You hate this but the science has changed in the last three…there’s new information has come along…”
Ivan Yates: “I’m actually prepared to indulge this…”
O’Neill: “…new information…asymptomatic spread means you got to wear a mask. It was good before, coughing meant spreading, you wore a mask if you had symptoms. Now we know it spreads with no symptoms. The great analogy is it‘s like a fire burning in our cities…you’re breathing embers that might get the fire going again. A mask will stop the embers.”
Luke writes:
I realise the ‘science has changed’ but what happened Professor O’Neill’s warning about the eyes? He said ‘This evil virus will penetrate the eyes and that’s not covered [by a mask] anyway’. Does this still apply? Or has the science changed on that also?
Anyone?
British author and former GP Vernon Coleman says the UK’s mask wearing rules are ‘illogical, unscientific and dangerous’, and claims ‘those who insist on wearing masks are are threatening our lives and our future’.
Pause.
FIGHT!
Earlier: A Plague On All Your Houses
Meanwhile, in 1918…
https://twitter.com/SatansJacuzzi/status/1283785782105378818
Seriously though: wear a mask.
(H/T: Deadbeat Tennis)
STOP!
He can’t hear you.
Nobody can with Beats by Dre.
This afternoon.
The wearing of face masks is likely to be made compulsory in shops and other indoor settings, following a meeting of cabinet this evening.
Ministers will discuss a proposal to extend the regulation requiring face masks on public transport – which came in to effect on Monday.
That regulation carries penalties of up to €2,500 or six months imprisonment for people who fail to comply
Face coverings in shops and indoor areas likely to be made mandatory (RTÉ)
Meanwhile…
Was just in the Disney store. Very polite man at the door stopped a woman and her teenage daughter and explained face masks were mandatory. He offered to give the two of them masks – give not sell – but they turned on their heels and walked away in huff. Isn’t that just mad?
— Conor Pope (@conor_pope) July 14, 2020
Wearing your facemask on your chin is the adult version of wearing your schoolbag on one shoulder to show that you rebelliously and cautiously go along with the rules, except it will kill someones grandmother
— The Blindboy Podcast (@Rubberbandits) July 14, 2020
absolutely drippin in swag with my new @WorkmansDublin mask!!!!other clubs could NEVER pic.twitter.com/ebt999L4yA
— uhhhhh (@bolgbhogte) July 15, 2020
In Yer Face masks! Limited edition #ZigAndZag masks from our pals @HairyBabyTees 👇😷 Stay Safe Z fans! https://t.co/uzTMdlb8MP
— ᴅᴏᴜʙʟᴇ ᴢ 💥 (@DoubleZCreative) July 15, 2020
STOP!
This afternoon,
Official Ireland (young people’s division) gets behind the maskage.
Sound advice from the ‘street’.
It only feels pushy and strange and like you’re on ‘crazy pills’.