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Yes it is the same Simon. However recent is a relative term. That was 22 April. He had been working flat out for 2 months at that time. He corrected it within hours . And laughted at himself. As letter writers at the time noted, there were plenty of people who were disappointed in having...

As I write this, I am listening to the plan to reopen Ireland , starting from Monday next. I would have wished that the UK would have been blessed with the same level of public service from their ministers. The speech from our Minister for Health was masterful. Everyone on the same page, and...

At this stage, there isn't a tablecloth safe in the house, my shirts are in tatters without tails etc. Damask makes the masks !. But silk is very good also.

.. ah yes but he did give very strong unambiguous advice .. there were 10 rules

The situation from March is significantly different to now. People know this can kill, they have the evidence..that photo from Vauxhall Railway is very telling. This information modifies behaviour. And of course the bans on football matches and pubs. The exceptionally fine weather is a huge...

..not the only thing you don't understand..however this time I suspect you are being coy.

Yes Barry, I agree. A full and fair trial.

Woosh.. what did I warn you about?. There you go feeding a troll again!.

No not mental, but stir crazy they are craving the old certainties. . I can just about understand it for KFC or a big Mac.. but the idea of taking anything with a bit of salad on it , freaks me out. I can accept the sterility of deep fried chicken and chips or a toasted bap and cindered beef...

I attempted to read this article. The essence of which is they looked at lots of infections in a hospital setting and the usual distances of Carers to patient . More infections at shorter separations. In otherwords no physics, no modelling , ..simply a meta analysis of multiple other...

He and they might welcome it. Its a Win Win . The actual hard decision gets deferred,it stays on the agenda, and their threadbare position doesn't get exposed for a while ..and they score brownie points for being a caring cabinet ,concerned with the regions.

you need to go behind the headlines in this one. The Organisers were genuinely surprised by the turnout... Me maybe not so much as there was very little else to do on our Bank holiday weekend . They did try and hold it with Social Distancing guidelines ..a point the Gardai reiterated, so I...

Tell me now how many of the Permanent Secretaries of Government Departments can you name?. Or their advisors, the Undersecretaries?. ..I rest my case. They are the people entrusted by you to actually offer advice. These Special advisors are political appointees, to be seen and not heard...They...

And you miss the point yet again, whenever an advisor becomes the story , they need replacing.

Excellent!!!.

Look, Cummings is not in a high profile public job, his actual role is to slide around in the undergrowth making his boss look good. He is neither elected nor selected by the public services commission, he is an advisor to someone who was.

The concept of alternative modelling strategies is very sound, but the " dark matter " hypothesis strikes me as a fudge. I read it, and reflected and am not at all convinced. There were a few obvious factors this person has omitted. 1. The Germans are more compliant.. The risks were explained...

I think there is still an amount of magical thinking going on. Very few pathogens can survive above 50 degrees ,so 60 degrees with or without detergent will kill almost anything. There are a robust few which need autoclave .. pressure cooker temperatures of 120 c. , but thats to be sure, to be...

I fully agree Tommie. It's still not to late to do something about the Dublin Dodge or the equivalent Belfast one. RoIs failure was not realising that those nurses in the HSE Acute wards, had hubbies working as care assistants in the nursing homes. Unfortunately I think we have to wait until we...

At the moment ,the UK has the second highest official deaths in the known world, and since not everthng is recorded promptly, probably the highest per capita in Europe. Since the current leader is the USA ,and it has 5 times the population and as yet only three times the official numbers ,it...