Plus ca change and all that.
The public deserve accurate data, and to have absolute faith that the data is not being politicised and manipulated to shape public opinion.
The question here is simple: Who is deciding what goes into the model? And why is that data not being widely shared?
We do not see journalists interviewing the Government’s advisors on economic policy to ascertain whether they approve of Government decisions.
According to minutes from a meeting on Thursday leaked to the BBC, UK health advisors are drawing up plans for a new lockdown after Christmas. According to the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) – the British equivalent of NPHET – restrictions are needed “very soon” if the UK is to avoid 3,000 hospitalisations a […]
‘Hospitalisations lowest for 2 months’
To listen to them in 2021, you would believe that disaster is forever around the corner.
The state’s covid response has been a miserable failure in 2021, and nobody – nobody – has been more responsible than that than the person responsible for that strategy, Dr. Holohan.
The Covid response is basically the dictionary definition of mission creep
In a crisis, Government should speak with one voice.
It is a racing certainty, if you look at the comments under this post on facebook, twitter, or other social media platforms, that you will find at least four or five people saying that the new opinion polls in yesterday’s Sunday Papers showing that the Irish public support the latest NPHET restrictions are “fake polls”. […]
Independent TD Mattie McGrath has said that “NPHET lost the support of the public a long time ago,” and has failed in its duties. The remarks were made this week in the Dáil as the government moved to implement new Covid restrictions. “People were spending a little for Christmas,” the Tipperary TD said. “Deposits have […]