Fran McNulty of RTÉ broke the news on Twitter this afternoon. He said the Data Protection Commission is apparently dealing with complaints that employers at meat plants and nursing homes received the Covid-19 test results of employees before they were given to workers. BREAKING: Data Protection Commission dealing with complaints about #Covid_19 test results being […]
There was a time when Youtube and other big tech companies justified their censorship of various opinions and views on the basis that unqualified people really shouldn’t be challenging scientists. That has now been taken a step further: Scientists shouldn’t be challenging science. Dave Cullen, the Youtuber who interviewed Cahill in the first place, is […]
On the one hand, it’s good news that more people will be getting the flu vaccine, full stop, for the simple reason that the more people who are vaccinated, the harder it will be for flu to spread, meaning we’ll have fewer cases of flu overall, even in people who are not vaccinated. On the […]
The fates have clearly conspired to deny Dublin a six-in-a-row. Or have they? Perhaps our focus for a source of the virus ought not to be on Wuhan but Lyrecrompane? You would not be up to them. On a more serious note, it would seem that the GAA inter county season will fall victim to the […]
YouTubers are being silenced if they don’t agree with the United Nations on public health. As The Verdict reports: YouTube will ban any content containing medical advice that contradicts World Health Organisation (WHO) coronavirus recommendations, according to CEO Susan Wojcicki. Wojcicki announced the policy on CNN on Sunday. WHO is an agency of the UN, charged with […]
On Saturday, The Irish Independent carried a sponsored propaganda…scrap that..a sponsored Editorial ’opinion’ piece from the Chinese Ambassador to Ireland. In one sense it is a masterful display of deflection. In quite another, and more pertinent sense it is a nauseating and infuriating piece that has about as much grounding in reality as the view […]
Tipperary TD, Mattie Mc Grath has slammed the government’s Covid-19 actions in a hard-hitting Dáil speech addressing concerns regarding testing and other issues. “The gloss and the sheen has gone off the spin, and people are asking serious questions,” the Independent TD said, pointing to deficiencies in how the government dealt with nursing homes and […]
The ideal situation in any pandemic or catastrophe is that after the fact, the predictive models showing the worst-case scenario should look terrible. That’s actually a great outcome, because it means that either your worst fears were unfounded, or that your response to the crisis was so effective that the worst-case scenario (which could have […]
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 outbreak we’ve been hearing more and more in the news about Taiwan, a small island nation about 200 km off the south-eastern coast of mainland China. Mostly we’ve been hearing about the geopolitical significance of Taiwan, its history with the Communist Party of China, and the failure of the […]
One part of staying safe is staying sane. It’s heartbreaking to see so many good people so badly divided. We don’t know what’s real anymore, or who to trust or what to believe. We seem to be holding onto our own version of reality like our life depends on it. Probably because it does. Maybe, […]
Like rivets popping on the hull of the sinking Titanic, the stresses of the pandemic are revealing unexpected weaknesses in our societies. Suddenly we’ve realised that it wasn’t a great idea to source protective masks from China, that warehousing the elderly is dangerous, that we need check-out chicks more than we need managers, and so on. But […]
A new study has found that those who were given a combination of hydroxychloroquine, azithromycin and zinc sulfate were 1.5 times more likely to recover and be discharged, and 44% less likely to die. Researchers at the New York Grossman School of Medicine looked at 932 covid-19 patients hospitalized between March 2nd and April 5th. Half were […]