What could be driving this alarming wave of excess mortality? Only a properly conducted and adequately staffed public inquiry can provide any definitive answer.
Sometimes, the need for comforting national stories outweighs the need to face the possibility that the story is wrong. We were all in it together.
That’s the problem, in Ireland: If you could convince an Irish politician that burning the whole country down was the grown-up thing to do, and that it was in line with best international practice, they’d do it.
Nobody – and I do mean nobody – on planet earth exerted more pressure on the vaccine companies to compress their testing schedules and rush the vaccines to market, more than Donald Trump
To pull off the three card trick, you first need some cards on the table.
The broad western policy about the pandemic now, then, is this: Act as if it didn’t happen at all.
Funny, this, in that he’s not the only one suffering from PTSD
We may need to confront head on the idea that lockdown cost this country as many lives as it saved.
Once you give Government a tool to do something, it’s always the first thing civil servants reach for when a crisis hits.
Those that questioned covid policy were silenced and ‘cancelled’ and any information that could cause vaccine hesitancy was suppressed, Dr Malone told the conference.
For the HSE’s figures to be correct, that would mean that there would have to have been 3,100 deaths this year from Covid, making it the worst year of the pandemic to date. This, very clearly, is not true.
Her unpopularity should not be surprising.