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Treating patients in tents in Italy. People on the floor dying in Spanish hospitals. Mass graves being dug in NY.42 days into this in Ireland, we've averaged 7 dead a

I've made plenty of criticisms.-Student nurses pay-Insufficient protections for renters vs mortgage holders-Argued for base-rate increase in social welfare-Improved ringfencing of nursing homes needed in future pandemicsNo response is perfect,

I've seen a number of unfair narratives used to try diminish the Irish response to coronavirus. I'm going to address a particularly disingenuous one here:That Ireland should be doing 'better'

You keep incorrectly asserting Ireland has done fuck-all testing by completing 42,484 tests.Overall % of the population tested:Germany: 1.1%Ireland: 0.86%Czech 0.85%USA: 0.64%Finland: 0.63%Spain: 0.61%Portugal: 0.58%Sweden 0.53%Holland 0.43%France 0.

Maggie Haberman:Where are people getting the impression she is an access journalist and Trump shill?Baffling?Let's take a closer look. The year is 2011. In February, Maggie Haberman pens an article

There's a very unhelpful - and hurtful - conversation ongoing as to whether people are dying with coronavirus or from coronavirus. People involved in those conversations should step back and

No conspiracy theories. Ok. Deal. I'll go for it.A lot of right wing propaganda in the US suggests the virus didn't make it to Beijing or Shanghai. That's false.Beijing -

I understand where you're coming at this on the mental health issues, but comparisons to Sweden need a little bit more context. More generally, the premise that "prevention isn't better

It's approaching the pinnacle of human conceit to dismiss "rotten luck" as a factor between ending up in Italy-scale devastation and avoiding it. You need to go all the way

Cheltenham Festival truthers on here have some interesting talking points. "It should have been canceled" is the one I'll agree with but there's some morally obtuse arguments being made on

A very serious British Academic said this about the UK death toll:"Many people who die of Covid would have died anyway within a short period"Talk about fundamentally missing the point.

By all means keep going.1. South Korea had tested 140,000 people after 1 month of their outbreak.Ireland had tested 30,213 after 1 month of our outbreak.Control that by their population