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Category: coronavirus

My Interview with a woman tested in a Dublin Hospital for Coronavirus this week

Posted on February 29, 2020March 1, 2020 by G

So the week draws to a close with the island of Ireland receiving a visit from the infamous coronavirus. In the circumstances, I guess Storm Jorge provides an appropriate backdrop to unfolding events. Since the Italian outbreak, there’s been a certain creeping inevitability regarding COVID-19 happening upon our shores. In the end, it was a…

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Do Coronavirus skeptics have a point?

Posted on February 28, 2020February 28, 2020 by G

Since the outbreak of the coronavirus it is amazing the number of people that have become statisticians of the common flu. Because the clinical presentation of coronavirus is similiar to Influenza it is tempting to compare them I suppose. The basic point of these people is that the common flu is also contagious and kills…

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UK and Italy lead coronavirus testing but tests are only 70% accurate.

Posted on February 28, 2020February 28, 2020 by G

You’ve probably noticed that coronavirus panic has increased several notches over the past week. The revelation of a cluster of cases in northern Italy last weekend, seems to have triggered a media frenzy across Europe. That is very much the case in Ireland too. This has shone a light on testing for the disease and…

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Ireland has only tested 90 people for the Coronavirus.

Posted on February 26, 2020February 26, 2020 by G

Let’s start this article with a very simple proposition. Acting Minister for Health, Simon Harris, is a dangerous fool. Yes – Harris is a smart fool out of his depth in dealing with a crisis of the magnitude of the coronavirus pandemic. One of Harris’s responses to the coronavirus this week has been to appear…

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My conversation with Irish HSE support regarding Coronavirus is pretty shocking

Posted on February 24, 2020February 24, 2020 by G

I spent the morning chatting with the HSE on-line support and as I suspected Ireland doesn’t really have a plan to deal with an outbreak of the coronavirus. Basically, if you have any of the symptoms stay at home. And most definitely do not rock up to a hospital or GP Surgery. There could be…

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China expels 3 Wall Street Journal reporters from Beijing

Posted on February 19, 2020February 22, 2020 by G

Three Wall Street Journal reporters have been expelled from Beijing by the Chinese Communist Party this morning. Superficially, it follows a number of harsh opinion pieces in the WSJ critical of the Chinese handling of the Coronavirus outbreak. In particular Chinese authorities are aggrieved with one article – an opinion piece entitled   ‘China – The…

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February 18th: Dr Liu Zhiming Dead and 3,019 Wuhan medical workers infected

Posted on February 18, 2020February 22, 2020 by G

Chinese communist party officials are reeling today after announcing the death of Dr Liu Zhiming from the novel coronavirus. Dr Zhiming was head of surgery and director of Wuhan Wuchang Hospital. Zhiming was at the forefront of Chinese organisational efforts to fight the outbreak in the Hubei province. Chinese officials initially refused to certify the…

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February 16th: Check out these W.H.O. daily statistics on Coronavirus. Complete joke.

Posted on February 16, 2020February 22, 2020 by G

I have been taking a browse through the official coronavirus figures on the website of the World Health Organisation. The latest figures for February 16th 2020 have just been published and are broken down below by Chinese province. There are a number of curiosities. Some might say deliberate falsehoods. As you can see from the…

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Corona-virus threatens Mary Lou McDonald and the Irish Pharma Sector

Posted on February 16, 2020February 22, 2020 by G

” This Virus is a demon and we cannot allow this demon to Hide ” President Xi of China I’ve been waiting. Waiting for the Irish media to take a proper run at the corona-virus. As we don’t currently have a government, it’s pointless lashing politicians for the moment, although it would be no harm…

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Dr Francis Boyle ‘Coronavirus is a leak from Wuhan offensive biological weapons laboratory ‘

Posted on February 4, 2020March 17, 2020 by G

There is significant evidence emerging that the coronavirus outbreak in China is the result of a leak from one of it’s leading Biosafety laboratories. Dr. Francis Boyle is a professor of international law at the University of Illinois College of Law. He drafted the U.S. domestic implementing legislation for the Biological Weapons Convention, known as…

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