Whatever the root causes may be, and those are just two educated guesses, the public hysteria about covid is objectively a much bigger threat to the long term security and prosperity of the state than covid itself.
The simple fact of the matter is this: We tried to stop covid. We failed, comprehensively and totally. We spent billions of euro in the course of that failure. It is over, and done with.
Tony Holohan is running the country, on Covid, because Micheál Martin will not. He does not want to. He does not know how to. The strategy, from day one, has been to let NPHET handle it, and hope that Government will take the credit, and Holohan the blame.
The Taoiseach, asked about an Austrian lockdown for the unvaccinated, did not quite rule it out. Therefore, a journalist can quite honestly write a piece saying “Taoiseach refuses to rule out lockdown for the unvaccinated”.
EU Statistics show that Ireland has 278 hospital beds for every 100,000 people. Poland, a much poorer country, has 473 beds for every 100,000 people. Bulgaria has 624 such beds, for every 100,000 people.
More and more voters are coming to the conclusion that change is required.
“What are the Labour Party for?”, asked a colleague who shall remain nameless, yesterday, as we were deciding who would write about this weekend’s party conference. “After all, what’s unique about them is not popular, and what is popular about them is not unique”. It’s hard to argue with that. The Labour Party is in […]
China has not pledged to reduce emissions by one single tonne.
The unspoken part of “protect the vulnerable” is, and ever has been, that there is a big chunk of society which is not vulnerable.
Here are the cold facts: Government policy forced Eddie Rockets to close. Government policy forced it to lay off staff. Even when Government policy allowed it to re-open, Government messaging continued to scare customers away.
Over the past decade, Ireland has embraced just about every left wing, anti-landlord, pro tenant, measure it could think of
There used to be a concept western society understood inherently: Proportionality.