The HSE has been blasted for giving covid test results to bosses before the patients themselves. Ben Scallan comments. #gript
Last Monday, the government briefed the public on how they were expected to behave during Phase One of the lifting of the Covid-19 restrictions. They urged people to be “disciplined” and specifically not to have picnics. “Please do your exercise and go home,” the assistant secretary at the Department of the Taoiseach, Liz Canavan, said. “If you’re […]
Donald Trump has several times referred to the possibility of using the anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine as a preventative against coronavirus. Despite not being the only person to do so, and despite the fact that the use of the drug is being subject to many clinical trials, Trump’s statement, and his May 18 reference to taking […]
When this emerged last night, there was at least the possibility that the public was being tricked by old footage from a pre-Covid summer, and that the Taoiseach was not, in fact, out yucking it up in the Phoenix Park yesterday while thousands have died in nursing homes and their families banned from attending the […]
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I don’t know if it is just myself and my incompetence with the interweb, but it seems to be more difficult with each day to find accurate statistics on the Covid 19 crisis. Few mainstream outlets, and certainly not official ones, provide easily accessible data on some of the key aspects of how the pandemic has […]
YouTube has taken down a video discussion with Professor Karol Sikora, who headed the WHO’s Cancer Program between 1997 and 1999 and who currently leads the University of Buckingham’s medical school, in which the Professor discussed the appropriate response to Covid-19. In the interview Professor Sikora talked about herd immunity, and said he estimated up […]
I have worked with buyers on the issue of modern slavery in supply chains for much of the last decade. Modern slavery is a very real issue. Globally, it is estimated that some 40m people are enslaved or subject to forced labour conditions. Many, many more work in deeply exploitative conditions. I have looked into […]
Religious freedom and political freedom are woven from the same cloth. Reflecting on Irelands experience under the cosh of the Covid-19 pandemic there are very real reasons for concern. The scientific evidence justifying authoritarian edicts restricting freedom of movement and of religious practise– enforced by an unsettling show of armed force–have not been properly set […]
62 nations have come together to co-sponsor a motion calling for an independent inquiry into the coronavirus, in a move that is expected to anger China. Australia secured strong global backing for an independent inquiry into the Covid-19 pandemic at the World Health Assembly, where a new draft resolution was backed by 62 nations including […]
All around the world, and not just in developed countries, fertility rates are plummeting. For many people, including dedicated demographers, large families and healthy fertility rates belongs to a bygone era. Many have also become skeptical of the fact that the Christian faith can still have the seemingly magical power of keeping fertility rates up. […]
One of the interesting phenomena associated with the virus lockdown is the alacrity with which certain people have embraced the whole notion of extending state control over further parts of civil society and individual behaviour. It is also noteworthy that far from this being opposed by the left, many of that persuasion have embraced all […]