World’s most popular travel destination throughout pandemic
“We failed.”
Always been an issue?
We might never know but it has a smell about it.
TikTok etc a factor?
No matter what’s happening as regards Covid in Ireland, the government has one answer and one answer alone: Panic. When deaths are up even slightly, they panic. When hospitalisations are up even slightly, they panic. When deaths and hospitalisations are down, they prepare for an imagined incoming new wave (which may or may not come […]
Under the restrictions, restaurants and bars stayed open with some limitations, and Christmas markets continued
“Remember the “living with polio” campaign?” said Irish journalist Philip O’Connor the other day. Nope, me neither.
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 […]
You know that scene in the first Jurassic Park movie, where Jeff Goldblum’s character says “Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, that they didn’t stop to think if they should”? That’s a great summation of where Irish politicians are at; just throwing policy after policy at the wall to see […]
Nearly 3,000 children in the Australian region of New South Wales have received massive fines – some as much as $5,000 – for minor breaches of Covid restrictions. According to data acquired by the Redfern Legal Centre via an FOI request, 2,844 children between the ages of 10 and 17 have been fined under Covid […]
A TD has revealed that the government and the HSE spent a total of €40m in taxpayer money on Covid-related advertising. The figures were released by Independent Clare TD Michael McNamara on Twitter. “The Department of the Taoiseach has spent €27.3 million to date on COVID-related TV, radio, print and online advertising, bringing the total […]