France: Supermarkets have hired security to keep non jabbed out… #NoVaccinePassportsAnywhere pic.twitter.com/mCUJSOAP4D
— Gillian McKeith (@GillianMcKeith) August 20, 2021
REPORT: Liberté! 🇫🇷 – French residents block entrance to supermarket that denies service to the ‘un-vaccinated’. pic.twitter.com/EIcXRKuZZG
— New Granada (@NewGranada1979) August 20, 2021
Le gulp.
This afternoon.
Couldn’t happen here.
Kidding.
Good morning Aislinn, I’ve attached a statement released this morning by Organ Donation and Transplant Ireland (ODTI, the governing body for organ transplantation in Ireland), which is also being sent to all patients active on the transplant list. Thanks, Robyn. pic.twitter.com/icXPGvsbfi
— Irish Kidney Association (@IrishKidneyAs) August 20, 2021
This morning.
Firm but fair.
Yesterday: “It’s Never Too Late”
Why couldn’t the Irish Times just publish these people’s opinions and let them stand on their own? https://t.co/YnEuIxxTQC
— Ger Delahunty (@delahug) August 19, 2021
This morning.
Via Irish Times:
When The Irish Times invited people not taking the Covid-19 vaccine to explain their reasons, we received more than 250 responses inside two days…
…These readers’ statements are analysed by two doctors: Dr Anne Moore, vaccinologist at University College Cork; and Dr Eoghan de Barra, consultant in infectious diseases at Dublin’s Beaumont Hospital and senior lecturer in the Department of International Health and Tropical Medicines at the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland….
Why we’re not getting the Covid-19 vaccine: Irish Times readers share their reasons (Irish Times)
Meanwhile…
‘…We see the duty of care most possess for others play out in mask wearing too: a practice that offers little protection to the wearer, but is designed for the collective benefit of everyone around.
Compliance with mask wearing in Ireland has remained high, according to research from the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI). And even as mandatory mask wearing in the UK ends, they still remain ubiquitous on public transport and in supermarkets. It seems the message that we wear masks for each other’s benefit was not a hard one to grasp.
And though the government can issue mask-wearing directives all it likes, it cannot easily engender a sense of comity that sees people continue to wear them even when they do not have to. A roster of rules backed by the threat of sanctions can get us some of the way there, but it seems at the core of all of this is a shared ethical standpoint. That is something no cabinet could ever legislate for…’
Good grief.
Covid crisis could result in a shared ethical stance (Finn McRedmond, Irish Times)
This afternoon.
Anton Chigurh writes:
US about to decree that *anyone* flying into *or out of* any airport in USA be fully vaxxed, even on internal flights… this will enrage the antivaxxers there… get vaxxed or don’t get on an airplane…
Rachel O’Byrne from the cast of The Dead, An Opera at the Gaiety theatre in Dublin on August 7-8
This morning.
Via Irish Times:
Vaccinated people should be allowed to go to the theatre if it means more venues would be able to open their doors to larger audiences, the general manager of Dublin’s Gaiety Theatre has said.
Ahead of the first live audience returning to the theatre this weekend for the staging of The Dead, An Opera – a musical adaptation of James Joyce’s famous short story – Laura McGuigan said the theatre would be open to it. “If it meant we could have more capacity, it would make sense,” she said.
She added that theatres would be well equipped to manage such a system if it gets the go-ahead from the Government. And she anticipated there would be broad support from the industry and theatre goers for any such moves.
Um.
Call for vaccinated patrons to be allowed go to the theatre (Irish Times)
Cummins he bitter.
This afternoon.
Via RTÉ News:
Restaurants Association of Ireland CEO Adrian Cummins said he believes that the 11.30pm curfew should be scrapped from September onwards.
The association is also looking for PCR and antigen testing to be used, to allow unvaccinated people to dine indoors.
Mr Cummins described the current rules, allowing indoor dining for those who are fully vaccinated only, as “very difficult, very problematic, there’s a lot of paperwork“
Hospitality sector to push for end to 11.30pm curfew at Govt meeting (RTÉ)
Philippines’ President Duerte gives orders for the unvaccinated to be confined in their homes, by force if necessary
“Those who do not want it, well for all I care, you can die anytime”
Has this crossed your red line yet? Do you *still* not see it? pic.twitter.com/zvFcIu9XCE
— Maajid أبو عمّار (@MaajidNawaz) July 30, 2021
Hardcore.
Or not hardcore enough?
Only you can decide.
Philippines locks down 13 million in Manila (The Guardian)
Meanwhile…
Israel reimposes 'Green Pass' pic.twitter.com/2uDgwtNNho
— Camus (@camus37) July 30, 2021
Oy vey.
Earlier.
Regulations published in the early hours of this morning forbidding entrance to restaurants and pubs to the unvaxxed.
Businesses that do reopen will qualify for 30 pieces of silver a three-week double payment of the Covid Restrictions Support Scheme.
Good times.
Contact tracing change to indoor dining regulations – RAI (RTÉ)
Meanwhile…
French rail union has told its members not to check vaccine passports (obligatory on long train journeys from end of August) and threatened to strike if members are sacked for not having one themselves.
Bravo à eux ! #NoVaccinePassports #AntiPassSanitaire https://t.co/HdPM8yjA1q
— Richard Ings (@richardcings) July 26, 2021
Begley’s Bar, Killoe county Longford
If you choose not to have the vaccine, that’s fine. You are not being discriminated against by Niamh. Niamh is following guidelines. Most vaccinated people don’t want you near them either if you’re not I’d imagine. So suck it up. Nobody is asking or forcing you to go to Begleys.
— Deirdre of the Sorrows (@deirdrenugent4) July 23, 2021
Oh.
Previously: Open for Business: Longford pub owner features in RTE TV show (Longford Leader)
Pic: Begley’s
I don’t need to hear Dr. Fauci play guitar, and I don’t need to hear Eric Clapton give medical advice.
— Middle Age Riot (@middleageriot) July 22, 2021
Eric Clapton? When are we? 1970?!
I think you’re average music fan today couldn’t give two hoots about Eric Clapton or how views on the vaccine.
Let him join Van Morrisson and Roger Daltrey in an old cranks roadshow playing music nobody cares about to no one.
— 🇪🇺 Gavin Doyle 🇮🇪 (@gavin_doyle_ie) July 22, 2021
Eric Clapton is an asshole https://t.co/xwIDIspue9
— Ellen Barkin (@EllenBarkin) July 22, 2021
This afternoon.
God is dead to them.
Alternatively
#NoVaccinePassport #boycott
No major Irish arts person yet stepped forward to give leadership like Eric Clapton?Noticeable tho the number of arty lefties virtue signalling the establishment, eager to please with personal attacks on dissenters, zero interest in the truth https://t.co/tbmWTWlQ4a
— Eddie Hobbs 🙂 (@RealEddieHobbs) July 22, 2021
Fight!
Yesterday: Not All Guitar Heroes Wear Capes
