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Covid-19 in Ireland: Elusive Facts

October 25, 2020September 20, 2020 Frank Armstrong

No facts without Judgment Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts: nothing else will ever be of any service to them. Mr Gradgrind from Charles Dickens’s Hard Times (1854). These are facts the heart can feel; yet … Read more

Covid-19: Young Lives Count Too

June 25, 2020June 23, 2020 Laurent Muzellec

Doctors save lives today. It’s part of their oath and ethics. Unsurprisingly, most doctors faced with the Covid-19 pandemic recommended the drastic measure of mandatory confinement orders, or lockdowns. The main objective was to ‘flatten the curve’ of new infections so that it did not lead to overcrowding in hospitals. Ireland had an extremely limited … Read more