Except Claire Byrne Show?
Relative obscurity should be the default setting for the Government’s medical advisors. We need to know that they are there in a crisis, but we also need to have the confidence to know that a crisis will pass.
Yes, the Government could ignore NPHET, on paper. But why would they?
What we have in Ireland is a plainly political lockdown, not a scientific one.
It strains credulity to believe that the hospital situation changed so markedly in just two weeks.
Here’s a funny question for you; what exactly is the HSE? That seems like a silly thing to ask, I know. “The Health Service Executive,” you say. “Ireland’s public healthcare system. Duh.” Of course, if you consult the HSE’s “About Us” tab on their website, they say that “The HSE provides all of Ireland’s public […]
In other words, you can move around freely, but only if it is in a good cause.
NPHET considering mandatory vaccinations? HELL NO | Gript
Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
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?
In these circumstances, the decision to let the virus rip, so to speak, is unambiguously the correct one.
But data can be accurate, and misleading, in a number of ways.