Relative obscurity should be the default setting for the Government’s medical advisors. We need to know that they are there in a crisis, but we also need to have the confidence to know that a crisis will pass.
Yes, the Government could ignore NPHET, on paper. But why would they?
What we have in Ireland is a plainly political lockdown, not a scientific one.
It strains credulity to believe that the hospital situation changed so markedly in just two weeks.
Obstacle to EU recovery cert
A survey of hospital patients with COVID-19, undertaken by the Infectious Diseases Society of Ireland (IDSI) has found that only 42% of hospital patients “had symptoms of COVID-19 at presentation.” The IDSI was requested to undertake the survey by the National Clinical Program for Infectious Diseases. Data was collected for 453 hospital patients, roughly 45% […]
In most of the rest of the English speaking world, the definition of an incidental case is “somebody who was admitted to hospital for a reason other than covid 19”. In Ireland, the definition is different.
In other words, you can move around freely, but only if it is in a good cause.
And so, isn’t it fair to ask: What if the science at the start of the pandemic was actually right, and we’ve been getting it wrong ever since?
Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
Already, those who grudgingly accepted the vaccine passport as a temporary measure are willing to – less grudgingly – accept it as a permanent compromise. Was there ever, in human history, a better example of the slippery slope in action?
Case numbers are soaring, hospital numbers are slowly rising, ICU numbers are flat, and the number of people being ventilated artificially to keep them alive is actually falling.