One of the things that frustrates me most about the Irish media is the way that a lot of the time, they’ll cheerfully and unthinkingly report the most obviously nonsensical nonsense from the Government without stopping to ask a single obvious question. There’s a new line out this morning in relation to the leaving cert […]
Embattled WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has accused Taiwan of taking part in “racist attacks” against him. He said that Taiwan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs was directly aware of the campaign and “didn’t disassociate themselves”. This is the second time in recent weeks that Dr Tedros has attacked Taiwan; he earlier accused them of […]
Given the spread of misinformation about Covid-19, Just Facts is providing a trove of rigorously documented facts about this disease and its impacts. These include some vital facts that have been absent or misreported in much of the media’s coverage of this issue. This research also includes a groundbreaking study to determine the lethality of Covid-19 based […]
Every now and then, and especially in distressed times such as these, it’s good to spotlight an engineer who has done the right thing, and keeps doing the right thing. Today I’m going to do that with Peter P. Tsai, who is credited with inventing the electrostatic non-woven filter used in the N95-type disposable masks […]
In May 2018, with just a week to go to the vote in the referendum, the Yes vote was slipping in the polls. An Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar, made an urgent and emotive pitch to voters. In an interview with Seán O Rourke on the country’s national radio station, RTE, he focused on the danger of using abortion […]
New figures from an Oireachtas Budget Office shows that Ireland is actually exporting vast quantities of material which could, with modifications, be used for testing in the Coronavirus pandemic. Along with a lack of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), one of the most infuriating and difficult aspects of this crisis has been the government’s the failure […]
Some were surprised last week when the deputy Prime Minister of Japan, Taro Aso, blasted the WHO, referring to them as the “Chinese Health Organisation” for their alleged role in helping the Chinese Communist Party to cover up the coronavirus. Aso said: “People think the World Health Organization should change its name. It shouldn’t be […]
Love him or loathe him, he’s right here: “The WHO really blew it,” Mr Trump said in a Twitter post. “For some reason, funded largely by the United States, yet very China-centric. We will be giving that a good look. “Fortunately I rejected their advice on keeping our borders open to China early on. Why […]
If one was to sit down and draw up a list of things related to the Coronavirus for which somebody in Ireland should be arrested and prosecuted, there are a few things you might put on it. For starters, there was the decision to allow flights from Northern Italy to keep landing in the country […]
Ireland’s dependence on China for goods like PPE is another sign of how vulnerable we are when international markets fail. TIM JACKSON says indigenous industries should be rebuilt where possible. #gript
A few days ago on Twitter, our Editor here at Gript, John McGuirk questioned the level of training that was necessary for a HSE nurse to make a determination of death. It was a question that John asked in good faith-since most of us assume that such a determination should be straightforward. But since this […]
Two days ago the number of nursing homes with clusters of coronavirus infections in Ireland was 50. Within 24 hours that figure had doubled to 99 homes. This is very worrying news. A cluster is defined as “three or more COVID-19 cases in a single institution for a 72-hour period”. There are about 560 nursing […]