If there is an area in which expertise might be expected, it would surely be in the area of producing the statistical models on which national policy in a time of crisis is based.
One of the big problems with writing about the Covid Pandemic, 20 months into it, is that by this stage, almost everything that there is to say has been said. And little of it has made any difference. But there is one point that must be made over, and over, again: And that point is […]
It should be obvious to anybody with a basic grasp of numbers that Ireland has now been making policy, for some time, based on figures which are worse than imaginary.
Masks “impossible” for some
Parents say children terrified by prospect
The man is not the nation’s leader. He is a civil servant who has gotten – on a historic scale – far, far, too big for his boots.
In light of the media’s focus on people spreading false information about Covid-19, here are the top 7 worst predictions and least accurate statements made by NPHET and other experts throughout the pandemic. 1. LUKE O’NEILL: THE VACCINES ARE “ALL 100% EFFECTIVE IN PREVENTING HOSPITALISATIONS AND DEATH” Earlier this year, Trinity College immunologist Luke O’Neill […]
When policy is based on bad information, you usually get bad results. That has happened consistently in Ireland, with NPHET. It is long past time to disband that body.
The truth is that every single effort to stop covid has failed.
With Ireland’s planned October 22nd “Freedom Day” set to be cancelled by the government, the Taoiseach has followed NPHET’s advice and will be keeping Covid restrictions until at least – wait for it – February of 2022. The hardest part about “two weeks to stop the spread” is the first two years. An Garda Síochána […]
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.
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 […]