The fear-sowing propaganda has worked fiendishly well.
Here’s a question for Dr. Tony, if any of you credentialled, press conference attending journalists happen to be reading: Why ninety per cent? Why not ninety five? Or eighty seven? Or one hundred per cent? What’s so scientifically significant about the number ninety? Let me venture an answer to that: Nothing. There’s nothing scientific about […]
Irish restaurant owner and TV personality Paul Treyvaud says many businesses in his industry are under financial pressure and don’t know it yet because of covid restrictions. #gript
The Government says it wants the Electric Picnic to go ahead, but the matter is up to Laois County Council. The council says it would be open to letting the event go ahead, but the Government must change the law first. The truth is that neither of them probably want the event to go ahead. […]
He’s quite right, too. Partying in the street like common gougers. Properly civilised people have their parties with a glass of wine in one hand, and some tasteful finger-food in the other, in the more refined surroundings of somewhere like, say, the Merrion Hotel: Scenes outside Croke Park last Sunday were unacceptable and lessons need […]
At this stage, it’s hard to know whether Australia is a real country, or an imaginary place invented by NPHET to make the Irish Government seem like a benevolent and kind alternative: Fifteen rescue dogs, including 10 puppies, have been shot dead by a rural Australian council under its interpretation of coronavirus restrictions. Bourke Shire […]
Congratulations to Limerick, who did Cork-haters across the world a great service yesterday in demolishing the rebel county in Croke Park, in front of 40,000 fans. Thousands of people gathered in Dublin for the event. Thousands more gathered in pubs and other venues across both counties, perfectly legally. It was, while not quite a full […]
Reading Pandemic2, there is a sense that the world needs healing on many levels
Collateral damage ‘huge’
Regular readers will remember that earlier in the summer, yours truly regularly pointed to Florida and Texas as examples of places which had abandoned Covid restrictions completely, and were doing just fine. It would be dishonest, then, not to cover the fact that in recent weeks, both states have experienced a mega surge in cases […]
This is one of those figures that sounds shocking, but is actually objectively good news: #LATEST HSE tells @VirginMediaNews that 20% of Ireland’s new confirmed cases are people who are fully vaccinated. “Vaccinated people are reporting very mild illness” – @NiamhOBeirne @VirginMediaNews #Covid19Ireland — Zara King (@ZaraKing) August 9, 2021 According to the most recent […]
David Quinn says that extreme caution is impractical when it comes to covid, and that a reasonable risk assessment is needed.