I will be the first one to hold up my hands and say I wanted a lockdown too. I used the #stayathome #staysafe #quaranteam hashtags that began floating around only a number of weeks ago. I bombarded friends of mine with messages regarding staying home and staying safe. I panic bought Vitamin C and other […]
There is an interesting European collaborative mortality monitoring activity among 24 European countries called Euromomo (website: euromomo.eu). They collate and analyse weekly mortality statistics which are published on their website. The project has weekly mortality data since the beginning of 2016 and the mortality statistics are published below for the full period data is available. […]
The number of burglaries in March plummeted by 30% due to the coronavirus lockdown, the Gardai have said, even though the restrictions were only introduced halfway during the month. Garda Commissioner Drew Harris, in his monthly report to the Policing Authority, also said sexual crimes were down, and that the number of crimes reported in March […]
On the one hand, this is excellent. As an ex-smoker, I’ve always wanted the excuse to go down and get 20 camel blues from the local shop. And now, for the first time in my life, I can tell my mother I’m doing it for the good of my health: Frontline health workers and patients […]
There’s a very simple solution to this problem, of course. If someone won’t tell the authorities where they’re going to be staying for the next few weeks, the state should flip the table and tell them where they’ll be staying for the next few weeks: Arbour Hill Prison. Or, if you’re not an authoritarian right […]
Aontú leader Peadar Tóibín TD has stated that “one of the most frustrating aspects of the Covid-19 Crisis is the fact that the government is only using a fraction of the available capacity to fight the virus”. He also said that despite the scale of the crisis in health and the economy, the HSE undertaken […]
A Consultant Surgeon has said that it is “without question” that an increase in non-Covid deaths will arise as people are no longer able to access healthcare services during the pandemic. Professor Michael O’Keefe, Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon at the Mater Private Hospital and Beacon Hospital, was asked by Ivan Yates on VMTV last night if […]
A stunning graph this, courtesy of US company Kinsa: The blue line in that graph represents people with a temperature in New York City. The red line is deaths in New York City. If you take the temperatures, and shift them 18 days to the right, they line up perfectly with the deaths. In other […]
A few days ago, Dr Michael Ryan of WHO singled out Sweden for praise for its handling of the covid19 crisis. This is significant because Sweden was being pilloried as arrogant at best, irresponsible at worst for its refusal to join most of rest of the world in state enforced lockdown. Sweden’s extensive testing regime […]
Back in the far-off days of pre-lockdown the mantra that was repeated to us in order to secure our compliance in one of the biggest voluntary surrenders of civil liberties in history was “flatten the curve”. The idea behind it was that we need to ensure that the infection spreads more slowly than it would […]
With unemployment skyrocketing, the government are increasing carbon tax and driving up heating costs. BEN SCALLAN comments. #gript
I don’t know Oliver Callan from Adam, and we’d probably disagree on many things, but he is a genuinely funny comedian. His political sketches are hilarious, and he’s a brilliant mimic, effortlessly taking off everyone from Mary-Lou McDonald to Brian Johnson and Leo Varadkar. Last week, however, he learned that criticising Leo Varadkar during a pandemic will […]