What is happening to the right to dissent?
Think of the facemasks not as a tool to prevent disease, but the human version of the dog’s electric shock collar
An evaluation of the data used to force masks in Ireland
To pull off the three card trick, you first need some cards on the table.
The Irish Government came very late to a sensible approach to covid. But they should be praised for getting there in the end. And these figures vindicate that approach.
There cannot seriously be an intelligent person left, for example, who seriously believes that a tide of covid infections in Ireland is being held back by indoor mask wearing.
And so, isn’t it fair to ask: What if the science at the start of the pandemic was actually right, and we’ve been getting it wrong ever since?
It is important to call this kind of journalism out for what it is: It is the attempted demonisation of normal political activism.
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 […]
There used to be a concept western society understood inherently: Proportionality.
The truth is that every single effort to stop covid has failed.
This is from the United States, not Ireland, it should be noted. Though, of course, there are a small but loud minority of Zero Covid activists who want to make scenes like this mandatory in Ireland as well: https://twitter.com/JamesHeartfield/status/1439329262738284546 “Child abuse”, many heartfelt people on social media declared. And, true, it is unpleasant viewing. Though, […]