This is not a strategy to fix the problem. It is a strategy to blame others for the problem.
The Government has been given every tool that it needed. Time. Space. Almost limitless money. And yet still, for the second consecutive winter, the only tool it has at its disposal, apparently, is more restrictions.
Put figures like these together with the impact of shuttering various health screening services for months at a time, and there is a reasonable case to be made that lockdown may have cost – or at minimum, ruined – many more lives than it saved.
Gardai ask supporters outside court to stop singing hymns
This is the cost of lockdown that has gotten hardly any attention in Ireland.
The organisations mobile phone costs for staff are generally “less than €500,000 a year (including device costs).”
Over 40% of Irish young people are stressed out “all or most of the time” according to a new Deloitte study, with much of the anxiety being pandemic-related. Deloitte’s Global 2021 Millenial and Generation Z Survey included 23,000 young people from across 45 countries, including over 400 from Ireland. Millennials are defined as those born […]
This, make no mistake, is very good news: The number of people in hospital with Covid 19 has fallen below 300 for the first time in a very long time: https://twitter.com/MountainAsh2020/status/1437558992969076740 Good news, though, should also prompt some soul-searching. After all, it was not supposed to be like this: In a letter sent by the […]
On the one hand, it is perfectly understandable that Leo Varadkar’s legion of defenders – both those who are true blue Fine Gaelers, and those who are not, but who think the Tánaiste is unfairly targeted by his critics – should feel put out by the latest controversy engulfing their man. Yes, every single one […]
We Didn’t Need Lockdowns; Rapid Testing Could Have Kept Society Open.
Denmark will lift all its remaining COVID-19 restrictions, including vaccine passports, on 10th September
Last month, Clapton came out in defiance of some restrictions