Sometimes, the need for comforting national stories outweighs the need to face the possibility that the story is wrong. We were all in it together.
U-turn from Government
‘Not to blame’ for infections?
Admits “we made mistakes”
Avoid ‘deepening rifts’
Already, those who grudgingly accepted the vaccine passport as a temporary measure are willing to – less grudgingly – accept it as a permanent compromise. Was there ever, in human history, a better example of the slippery slope in action?
There is nobody rational, on the whole planet, who seriously believes that tennis player Novak Djokovic poses any kind of health threat to the people of Australia.
2021 was the year of the great Irish vaccine culture war. And, in a sane world, 2021 is where that great vaccine culture war would stay. We now know the facts about the Covid 19 vaccines, and what they do, and do not, do. We know, for example, that the vaccines confer some important benefits. […]
Significant protests in recent months
“Human rights being violated”
Now, of course, just because something becomes Government policy, that does not mean it becomes easy to implement overnight.
In Ireland, we demand total conformity with whatever the pieties of the day might be, and then re-define those pieties as tolerance and compassion.