There are many reasons to be glad of the news which began to trickle out on Friday, and was confirmed by the Irish Times over the weekend. NPHET, it seems, is living on borrowed time: Farewell then to Nphet and Dr Tony’s briefings and letters as the war is coming to an end. Electric Picnic […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
A new report has warned that the Government’s relationship with NPHET “lacks transparency” and that “sweeping statutory powers” were unofficially delegated to NPHET. The report, Public Health Law During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Ireland, was released today by the COVID-19 Law and Human Rights Observatory in Trinity. The report argues that interactions between NPHET and […]
Patience has ran out.
The oft-repeated saw of the past year, “If it saves one life,” is patently a preposterous objective. It’s use, you could argue, is very effective however. The linguistic design is emotional and irrational, with a legitimizing façade of science. Genius propaganda, one could argue. Laying out the “covid suppression” arguments flaws, in sequential reasoning, highlights […]
It is not hard to feel sympathy for the organisers of the Dublin Marathon. Speaking to Kieran Cuddihy on Newstalk’s Hard Shoulder last evening (an item in which yours truly also featured), lead organiser Jim Aughney said that the cancellation was not because the organisers lacked faith in the vaccine programme, or personally believed in […]
Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly has expressed his “disappointment” and “discomfort” with the way in which members of the public have been critical of NPHET online. When they say they’re “all in this together,” they aren’t joking. Speaking in the Dáil last week, Donnelly went to bat for everyone’s favourite unelected body of government advisors. […]
Outspoken CEO of Ryanair, Michael O’Leary, has accused NPHET of putting out a “variant-scariant narrative” which he says “will be shown to have been completely bogus”. Leary made the comments in an open letter to Minister Eamon Ryan and in an interview with Newstalk’s Hard Shoulder. He took aim at what he perceived as the government’s mis-management of […]
Confirmation/First Holy Communion cancelled.
Shots fired.