The story changes week to week, and the only constant is utter panic. Here is the anatomy of a national nervous breakdown
Now, of course, just because something becomes Government policy, that does not mean it becomes easy to implement overnight.
Consider what follows to be McGuirk’s first law of Irish Journalism: If a campaign is described as “a grassroots campaign” in the Irish media, it is a reasonable assumption that the campaign is being organised by about fourteen state-funded NGO groups on the political left. By the same token, if a campaign is genuinely grassroots […]
Nobody forced the Irish Government to announce that it was considering subsidising antigen tests.
It should be obvious to anybody with a basic grasp of numbers that Ireland has now been making policy, for some time, based on figures which are worse than imaginary.
It is important to remember that many people have incentives to make Omnicron a massive story.
it’s a reasonable assumption, at this point, that these vaccines will amount to a transitory, stop-gap solution
We urgently need a national discussion about this which is cool, calm, balanced, and informative. There does not, at present, seem to be any prospect of us getting one.
I spoke with the G.M. of the facility where I attend, and he said to me that for every 1 suicide I had heard of, 3 more have died that you didn’t.
The evidence would tend to suggest that “schools are safe” was always nonsense. If they were safe, after all, schools would never have been closed when they were, for as long as they were. The phrase was developed solely and only to make people feel safer about re-opening them.
The man is not the nation’s leader. He is a civil servant who has gotten – on a historic scale – far, far, too big for his boots.
But the conclusion is still inescapable to anybody with eyes to see: We’re in this mess in part because the vaccines are not what they were advertised to be.