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Flattened the Curve my foot

The Government and the HSE’s misleading graphs Since around last week the HSE and the Government started claiming that the lock-down measures were working. Today Minister for Health, Simon Harris tweeted some science with which we can contend with (albeit not much). It’s a graph from the HSE’s modelling group which he upholds as evidence…

April 18, 2020
Rent Freeze

Sinn Fein’s Rent Freeze Bill will reduce the quantity and quality of housing further The playwright, George Bernard Shaw, once said: “If all economists were laid end to end, they could not reach a conclusion.” Economists often disagree with each-other but there is a topic that is both well understood and garners a consensus of…

January 4, 2020

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Flattened the Curve my foot