Les Miserables
More transmissible ‘Delta plus’ Covid variant identified in India
OMG!!!!! A variant of a variant? We are doomed. Dooooomed I say.
HSE says Athlone outbreak is ‘probably’ Delta variant as Tánaiste says there is reason for ‘concern’ …
PANIC!! This is sooo serious!!! Man the lifeboats!!!! Grandads women and children first!!!!!
… , but not panic
Oh that’s all right then.
Seriously lads. Will yiz ever cop on?
You’ve been coming on our media for the last year and more, with your glum faces and morbid tones forecasting all sorts of Armageddon if we don’t all “work together” and “heed government advice” and all that shit. It has gone way beyond tedious. It is boring. You have overdone it. You have cried wolf too many times. You have become a miserable bunch of naysayers.
People are so sick of the whole circus that they are just doing their own thing. People are mingling. People are not bothering with masks. Yet somehow [somewhat strangely] there is no crashing “fourth wave” [or is it third or fifth?]. Numbers in hospitals are down to a trickle. A lot of the country’s ICUs are reporting a distinct lack of Covid. Numbers of “new cases” are decreasing by the day.
I would suggest you remove your collective heads from your collective holes and come out and smell the fresh air.
Follow the example of The Plain People of Ireland.
I think there's a discarded mask in the gutter – best place for it
So that's where I left the damned thing.
Thanks Ed!
With my layman's knowledge of viruses I am still amazed that this virus is transmitted by a person's chin. After all that is where most people today wear their masks.
I used to occasionally wear mine to protect my beard. I haven't bothered though for the last few months. My beard can take its chances.
The only problem with "no more masks" is that for months now, I've been mouthing "Eff Off" to all sorts of irritating people (that's most of 'em, unfortunately). I hope I remember not to, when we're freed.
Don't worry. I mouth Eff Off to 'em anyway and have been doing for years. They just thing it's part of my endearing charm and eccentricity.
What baffles me is why the Greek alphabet is being used. People will not be confused at the next variant being called Epsilon, E comes after D, they will conclude. What will cause confusion is Zeta following Epsilon. It seems likely that some will ask, "how can we be at Z already? What happened to all of the other letters?
They got around that one by calling the next one Delta-plus. Why can't they take a leaf from software? Virus V19.3.1 ?
Could not comment as Reply to Ian.
Or it could be the Nato alphabet.
They have missed out Bravo and Charlie, or Beta and Gamma just to keep us on edge.
I do wish that they would all Foxtrot Oscar.
"They have missed out Bravo and Charlie, or Beta and Gamma just to keep us on edge.
I do wish that they would all Foxtrot Oscar."
We have a winner!
No more calls please…no more calls.