The Hard Conversation

What’s the point in vaccinating the majority of the population if they still have little or no freedom of movement? What’s the point in having achieved herd immunity between those vaccinated and those who have already had the virus if we’re all still locked down or quarantined, made to wear masks and not allowed to go out to dinner or go to the theatre or go to a football match etc. etc. It’s crazy and nobody is being allowed to speak up. Some political leader in Europe needs to step forward and show leadership and quickly. This continuous diet of “ we might open up “ we will open up “ “ we may not be able to open up “ “ we’ll have to lock down again if you don’t behave yourselves “ has become really tiresome.   From the outset, they kept saying “ we must follow the science “. Well, they ceased following the science themselves long ago. It has become pure political wrangling and scaremongering by the various mouthpieces that have been nominated by their individual governments. ...

Politicians lie in the same way that birds sing. It’s an uncontrollable urge that becomes second nature to them once they have participated in the democratic process of being elected. Human beings have enormous potential as individuals and yet collectively we can be incredibly stupid and naive.   Governments have become shameless in their lies and manipulation of the masses. Dr Fauci has contradicted himself so many times at this stage that I’m sure he’ll meet himself coming around the next corner. His decision to fund the lab in Wuhan and then his attempts to deflect attention away from them have now been fully exposed, yet he is still secure in his government-appointed position. Why? I would suggest that had this happened even 25 years ago the outcry would have been such that his resignation would have been inevitable. Not so in today’s world of keeping your mouth shut and don’t step out of line or you’ll get a high tech modern version of a knock on the door. His email communicat...

I always knew that Michael Martin was limited. I just never realised to what degree. His comment that COVID had exposed income inequality and then to suggest that some employers had actually been quite good is to imply that many have not. If his key takeaway from the COVID crisis is that employers have not been acting in a manner that meets with his approval is very tough to take. SME businesses across Ireland have been and are fighting for their survival. Many won’t make it. They have been crushed under the weight of these lockdowns and now our Taoiseach is going to turn the screw even further by addressing what he perceives as a key priority coming out of the pandemic. After all it’s good vote getting rhetoric. It’s no secret that in the corridors of power nobody cares about the business people or ordinary SME’s. Despite being the sector which creates the largest number of jobs and generates the largest slice of the tax take that funds government they are seen as almost a nuisance va...