Relaxation of Restrictions, Part XII *Read OP For Mod Warnings*

Well,Holy God Miley,would you look at the cut of this !

NPHET is dead....long live NPHET...?

I think it was Gene Kerrigan who coined the phrase "Round up the usual suspects" during the troubles,so it's good to see the principle still lives.

As before,it's all about following the money.....😳

Small talent pool in this country for a group pf that size and the top table is a given, the rest are likely to be at or near the top of their fields.

Interesting developments here,all the same...

Dr Holohan not at all pleased that his,rather unusual path into Academe,was questioned by a section of the political divide,but I found this quote to be particularly stinging.....

The mailed fist directed at the ungrateful unbelievers ?

It seems as if the Taoiseach's very public doubts were sufficient to pull the handbrake.

All that remains is to see whereabouts he goes in the "outside the Public Service" world,as this will most likely be a template for the other well-placed "names"

I suggest it will be a very short list of potential clients ?

'Outside the public service' so what about the 'Covid advisory group' then?

Am i missing something apart from the Trinity position issue?

Phew,thank God that it's all above board and transparent.

And here's people thinkin....."Shenanigains" 🤠

Tony Holohan won’t be taking up the position in Trinity because he didn’t have the full support of the Taoiseach. The neck of the Taoiseach to investigate a controversial and unusual appointment that appeared to benefit just one university at no expense to that university but paid out of public purse. That’s just disrespectful, obviously Tony Holohan is above such things as applying for a position that is normally awarded after open competition.

And why do the keep calling it an ‘open-ended’ secondment - he’s made it crystal clear he won’t be returning to CMO job.

There may well be a place for him in academia and had the DoH created a role for him as pandemic/public health expert to the benefit of multiple universities and colleges that would be an entirely different setup.

I think politician's ( and some of the wider public including most of the media) perception on TH can be summed up as: appearing steadfast and forceful in times of uncertainty, a handy deflector in terms of government policy, a person to trust in times of fear and anxiety.

Never mind real data, mistakes and overblown assertions about the reliability of the Covid science.

People dont look too closely anyway. They dont dig in and perceptions are mostly based on faith in what is being presented to them by the media who set the parameters.

It is no surprise.

Our Tony steered the ship through rocky waters. Now the irish people should be grateful and offer him a steady career in public service.

I actually think it would be a good thing to have him move to the private sector, a rather common revolving door mechanism so we dont have to continue paying him the amount of ridiculous money we currently are.

Just dont ever let him back in. Im afraid he might re enter.

Or he could go to the WHO. Lots of likeminded people there shouting from the rooftops except not when it is needed like stopping flights from China and the spread of the pandemic.

TH should feel right at home..

I noticed he was getting much more conservative in his talking lately, specifically questioning why people weren't wearing masks at Paddys Day parades. It's sad as he had a lot of criticism for NPHET on PK in the early days, peak criticism when it came to antigen testing.

Better to have him on the inside talking out might be the thinking here for NPHET 2.0

Yes I'll stand by my post about china being more free than us for most of 2020 and 2021, unless you can prove otherwise?

Ya this new "lethal" strain gives one a runny nose in addition to a cough. Frightening stuff. Stay safe.

When they don't give sh1te about human rights, why wouldn't they go into complete lockdown?

There's a reason why pestilence is often called one of the four horsemen. Plagues have toppled many great empires. You can't ignore a pandemic and pretend it's not happening. If they opened up fully, the levels of sickness and death would escalate quickly (their vaccination levels are not good), and you can't hide that from the population; because they're the ones experiencing it.

Then you have a catch-22. If you bring covid patients into hospitals, you quickly run out of resources in bed spaces and doctors and people start seeing their relatives dying from treatable illness because the country couldn't provide for them. If you don't, then people see their relatives dying at home because their country refused to provide for them.

Either way, confidence in the state and the government is eroded, and that's poison for a dictatorship.

They'll have to fake their way out of this somehow. It'll probably some variant on field hospitals for really sick covid patients. Open up, and anyone over 50 who arrives really ill, goes to one of these hospitals. They can claim they're staffed by doctors with the best of equipment when really they're just palliative care tents. Nobody will know because relatives won't be allowed in. People will die of covid alone, be sent for cremation and the family told that their country did everything it could. Anyone who dissents or speaks up about the truth, quickly silenced.

But but bur the hospitals might still be overrun and we can't take that risk etc etc (it was a joke lads calm down)

Yep media move the **** on