There is nobody rational, on the whole planet, who seriously believes that tennis player Novak Djokovic poses any kind of health threat to the people of Australia.
In these circumstances, the decision to let the virus rip, so to speak, is unambiguously the correct one.
Cappagh Hospital in Dublin is not an acute hospital. It is the national orthopaedic hospital, with 159 beds, and seven state of the art operating theatres. It is where you go when you need an operation on your bones, or muscles. It does not accept, and is not equipped to handle, Covid patients. However, at […]
2021 was the year of the great Irish vaccine culture war. And, in a sane world, 2021 is where that great vaccine culture war would stay. We now know the facts about the Covid 19 vaccines, and what they do, and do not, do. We know, for example, that the vaccines confer some important benefits. […]
But data can be accurate, and misleading, in a number of ways.
Middle aged people like me are convinced that we know best, and that the whole world would be better if people just lived the way we did.
Mr. Ganley, and all those who supported him in taking the case, have every right to feel aggrieved.
The public deserve accurate data, and to have absolute faith that the data is not being politicised and manipulated to shape public opinion.
I’ll try and do better in 2022
Neuroscientist Professor Tomás Ryan of ISAG fame wrote an Irish Times article over the weekend urging a campaign with one simple goal: The total global “elimination” of Covid-19. In his own words, the article reads: “Looking to the long term, there seems to be only two endgames. Either we accept Covid as endemic, which could […]
We do not see journalists interviewing the Government’s advisors on economic policy to ascertain whether they approve of Government decisions.
To listen to them in 2021, you would believe that disaster is forever around the corner.