Jason and Ben consider the reasons behind politics becoming a nastier business, as is claimed by so many in public office
Policy shift.
Calls to rescind
Locals are concerned about the site’s proximity to bodies of water that provide drinking water for an estimated 50% of the Dublin area.
In Australia, by the time they reached the fourth booster round, fewer than half of people were getting it.
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 […]
NPHET’s Advised Against Border Quarantines at the Start of The Outbreak – Part 1 On the 25th of February 2021, the Dáil voted to require all travellers coming to the country from high-risk regions to complete a mandatory 14 days of quarantine. A border quarantine is a standard public health policy in a period of […]
The Covid-19 crisis highlights how the interests of individual patients and those of public health officials can sometimes be at odds. In other words, the general advice that government officials give from a public health perspective – looking at the proverbial bigger picture, the statistical aggregate – might not actually be the best advice for […]