Says the “status quo” is “not acceptable.”
“Particularly worrying.”
“In particular public radio and television stations.”
These have been long, dark, miserable years. Covid 19 bears much of the blame for that. As a society though, our own share of the blame is much, much, greater than we will ever admit to ourselves.
What can one say? It’s groundhog day all over again. As Ireland’s Covid cases have begun to increase, we are once again experiencing calls for a return of various Covid restrictions – just weeks after lifting them initially. Tell me if you’re starting to get deja vu. The HSE's Emergency Department Taskforce is requesting the […]
President Zelensky, the toast of the western world, is not a perfect Democrat. But we cannot be blinded by contrarianism.
There cannot seriously be an intelligent person left, for example, who seriously believes that a tide of covid infections in Ireland is being held back by indoor mask wearing.
At ‘enormous economic and social costs’
A leading oncologist has warned that societies urgently need to focus on finding cancers that were missed while the world was preoccupied with Covid-19. Professor Karol Sikora, who has been an oncologist for 50 years and was formerly the head of the WHO’s cancer program, made the comments this week on Twitter. “If we catch […]
The provisional conclusion which may be drawn from all of this is that the re-opening was the correct decision,
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.
The evidence would tend to suggest that “schools are safe” was always nonsense. If they were safe, after all, schools would never have been closed when they were, for as long as they were. The phrase was developed solely and only to make people feel safer about re-opening them.