The state’s covid response has been a miserable failure in 2021, and nobody – nobody – has been more responsible than that than the person responsible for that strategy, Dr. Holohan.
At this stage, my calculation is simple: If, having taken three vaccines, I now require a fourth dose to protect me from serious illness and death, this vaccine cannot be said to work at all.
The Covid response is basically the dictionary definition of mission creep
It is also a policy likely to change Garda behaviour, and the priorities of the Gardai as a police force.
The Democrats fear an abolition of Roe might not help them much at all, or punish Republicans.
It should not fall to Gript – a tiny outlet with four or five staff – to report these things
To be clear, this is not a population-wide fourth booster dose
In a crisis, Government should speak with one voice.
It is important to call this kind of journalism out for what it is: It is the attempted demonisation of normal political activism.
It is a racing certainty, if you look at the comments under this post on facebook, twitter, or other social media platforms, that you will find at least four or five people saying that the new opinion polls in yesterday’s Sunday Papers showing that the Irish public support the latest NPHET restrictions are “fake polls”. […]
Nobody should predict what the US Supreme Court will, or will not do, as the Casey decision in 1992 demonstrates.
If there is an area in which expertise might be expected, it would surely be in the area of producing the statistical models on which national policy in a time of crisis is based.