One of the big problems with writing about the Covid Pandemic, 20 months into it, is that by this stage, almost everything that there is to say has been said. And little of it has made any difference. But there is one point that must be made over, and over, again: And that point is […]
Either the vaccine is worth having, or it makes very little difference.
Now, of course, just because something becomes Government policy, that does not mean it becomes easy to implement overnight.
Consider what follows to be McGuirk’s first law of Irish Journalism: If a campaign is described as “a grassroots campaign” in the Irish media, it is a reasonable assumption that the campaign is being organised by about fourteen state-funded NGO groups on the political left. By the same token, if a campaign is genuinely grassroots […]
Nobody forced the Irish Government to announce that it was considering subsidising antigen tests.
It should be obvious to anybody with a basic grasp of numbers that Ireland has now been making policy, for some time, based on figures which are worse than imaginary.
A country, and a culture, without children, is a country, and a culture, without a future.
It is important to remember that many people have incentives to make Omnicron a massive story.
it’s a reasonable assumption, at this point, that these vaccines will amount to a transitory, stop-gap solution
That’s a mark of where our culture is, and what people feel it necessary to say, to prove their own normality and cultural sensitivity.
We urgently need a national discussion about this which is cool, calm, balanced, and informative. There does not, at present, seem to be any prospect of us getting one.
Those pursuing Mark Humphrys do not, in truth, really care what he said, or says. What they want is to send a signal about their own views: Agree with us, or else.