Close them now, then, and there is a fair chance they will not open again until almost February.
The state’s covid response has been a miserable failure in 2021, and nobody – nobody – has been more responsible than that than the person responsible for that strategy, Dr. Holohan.
At this stage, my calculation is simple: If, having taken three vaccines, I now require a fourth dose to protect me from serious illness and death, this vaccine cannot be said to work at all.
The Covid response is basically the dictionary definition of mission creep
To be clear, this is not a population-wide fourth booster dose
In a crisis, Government should speak with one voice.
It is important to call this kind of journalism out for what it is: It is the attempted demonisation of normal political activism.
It is a racing certainty, if you look at the comments under this post on facebook, twitter, or other social media platforms, that you will find at least four or five people saying that the new opinion polls in yesterday’s Sunday Papers showing that the Irish public support the latest NPHET restrictions are “fake polls”. […]
If there is an area in which expertise might be expected, it would surely be in the area of producing the statistical models on which national policy in a time of crisis is based.
This is worth repeating. Ireland has 630 cases per 100,000 people over seven days compared to 453 in the United Kingdom.
One of the big problems with writing about the Covid Pandemic, 20 months into it, is that by this stage, almost everything that there is to say has been said. And little of it has made any difference. But there is one point that must be made over, and over, again: And that point is […]
Either the vaccine is worth having, or it makes very little difference.