Scotland – with masks – has many more cases per head of population than Ireland – without masks.
These have been long, dark, miserable years. Covid 19 bears much of the blame for that. As a society though, our own share of the blame is much, much, greater than we will ever admit to ourselves.
What can one say? It’s groundhog day all over again. As Ireland’s Covid cases have begun to increase, we are once again experiencing calls for a return of various Covid restrictions – just weeks after lifting them initially. Tell me if you’re starting to get deja vu. The HSE's Emergency Department Taskforce is requesting the […]
This was a remarkably shoddy piece of “journalism” by the Irish Examiner
What we can say, though, is that the fear many people have about ditching facemasks is evidence that there have been social consequences.
Could happen as early as next week
Natural immunity ‘likely’ most effective
There cannot seriously be an intelligent person left, for example, who seriously believes that a tide of covid infections in Ireland is being held back by indoor mask wearing.
Most of you, by now, will already have seen the clip I am talking about here. If you have not, then I can only apologise, from the bottom of my heart, for what it is that I am about to do to you. Keep the volume down good and low on this one, for your […]
The provisional conclusion which may be drawn from all of this is that the re-opening was the correct decision,
Overall, the figures paint a picture of an increasingly mild, decreasingly lethal illness on a par with the flu itself, if not less lethal, in fact.
For two years, in this country, we let ourselves be blinded to bullshit by people’s titles and qualifications.