It is important to remember that many people have incentives to make Omnicron a massive story.
Masks “impossible” for some
Parents say children terrified by prospect
As the EMA & HSE approve the Pfizer jab for children aged 5-11, it’s worth noting that zero children in Ireland under-12 have died of Covid-19 during the pandemic. It’s been announced that the HSE will be rolling out the Covid-19 Pfizer vaccine to children between the ages of 5 and 11, after that age […]
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.
I spoke with the G.M. of the facility where I attend, and he said to me that for every 1 suicide I had heard of, 3 more have died that you didn’t.
We do not need polls to know that Donald Trump would be a very weak candidate against Joe Biden.
The Irish Government has no plan. It is drifting, and dithering, and waiting for Tony to tell it what to do.
The evidence would tend to suggest that “schools are safe” was always nonsense. If they were safe, after all, schools would never have been closed when they were, for as long as they were. The phrase was developed solely and only to make people feel safer about re-opening them.