Shocking health figures out last night with record numbers of trolley patients in an Irish hospital and nurses “embarrassed” to go to work and witness the levels of overcrowding.
Taxi for Stephen Donnelly, Minister for doing sod all.
Johnny-ny.
NHS-No Health Servive.
-In 2012, there were 2.5 million cases awaiting specialist treatment in England. By the start of 2020, the backlog had swelled to 4.6 million cases, according to the N.H.S.-
-In England, nearly 6 million procedures are currently delayed, a rise from the backlog of 4.6 million before the pandemic, according to the N.H.S.-
I pay my not inconsiderable taxes here in Ireland Beavis.
I’m entitled to know why the health service is so underfunded here.
So should every Irish person who cares about the society they live in and the sorry state the Government has allowed our hospitals to become.
If you don’t give a toss neither will they.
North Gay George's Treat
Wibble, wibble … sniffle
Mad
Roger Irrelevant
Steph Pinker
I admit I’ve never read The New Statesman, however, the front page and the irony of context based on the title, current events and items published through journalistic whining and writing is questionable and without logic – not to mention the illustration of an individual in the middle of a glass floor where a shadow on the right shouldn’t be, especially if one is going forward.
paddy apathy
“How Mind Works” by Steven Pinker is a good read, as opposed to BS babble by Steph Pinker. Your mind is playing tricks on you tonight. The man in the illustration is clearly walking down a long corridor with the sun shining through windows on his left. His shadow is where it ought to be.
Steph Pinker
Paddy, tabula rasa isn’t the seedy, smelly, sticky dark corner table in your local brothel.
Were I you I’d start – and end – with The Blank Slate.
Providing you can read without pictures.
:)
Dan
The irony of someone who can barely write a sentence complaining about writing. Here’s a tip: break long sentences into two. Maybe read Steven Pinker’s The Sense of Style – it may help with your clarity.
Covid19000
Words and Rules would probably have you both asleep earlier and with something more erudite to dream about.
As predicted, the recent imposing of mandatory masks on primary school children didn’t have a valid medical basis – it was a measure designed to manufacture disruption in children’s lives in order to then pressurise as many parents as possible into getting their kids jabbed when it came time for the roll out.
There’s no medical or ethical case for the mass administration of this drug to healthy children (risk of Covid for healthy kids extremely low; doesn’t stop transmission; designed for a two-year-old strain no longer in circulation; current dominant strain “markedly vaccine resistant”; any potential benefits are known to wane rapidly requiring indefinite boosters; no long term safety data; shoddy clinical trials; many many kids already exposed to Covid and with naturally acquired immunity, etc, etc).
Have to call a spade a spade at this stage: in my opinion the masking of primary school children is a form of state-sanctioned child abuse. So much damage has been done to people’s trust in public health authorities over the past 2 years. It’s not the sign of a healthy society when said authorities routinely impose measures which have the underlying intention to manipulate and coerce public behaviour rather than the supposed public health benefits they’re ostensibly claimed to be for (vax pass is another eg that comes to mind).
Chrisll
+1 State sanctioned child abuse sums it up well. Shocking behaviour that seeks to coerece and terrorise both parent and child.
ManT
It’s hard to argue with any of that. Its even harder to understand NPHETs reasoning. Is it as simple as arrogance
Nigel
It’s terrible and evil when you completely manufacture motivations that can only be discerned via tea-reading and telepathy and wildly overstating the detrimental effects of masks versus their benefits in reducing spread of the virus along with some fearmongering about the vaccine while ignoring how long it took the government to notice how covid was spreading in schools. Narrative indeed.
f_lawless
You’re too far gone Nigel. I don’t think there’s anything I can really say that might prompt you to engage in a reasonable manner, in your current state. Probably best just to leave you be in your bid to “exert control” over the comment sections. Hope you eventually manage to pull through somehow.
Nigel
Guess your counter-narratve is just weak.
Mr.T
“Concerns over knock-on effects of Watt’s payrise”
knock-on effects? How about the main effect – his remuneration is now higher than the US president, most TDs, his UK equivalent, etc.
How is this justified? And how is it acceptable that in his previous job, he set the new salary for his current job?
Insane corruption at work
goldenbrown
fairly insane stuff alright
(adding to the mountain of head-scratching things about Ireland and how certain people are rewarded)
the only thing I can come up with is that I’d imagine he knows where a lot of bodies are buried..
Janet, dreams of an alternate universe
those fake running shots of that hippo are a living peepee take
The Millie Obnoxious™
Actually went looking for a hippo on the front pages until I realised what you meant.
Janet, dreams of an alternate universe
oh, I actually felt a bit bad saying hippo after I posted, bit fatist and god knows when I see someone heavy running i think fair play because it’s ten times harder,
been getting a few lessons in humility since I was able to lace up again, waiting for the body to catch up with my memory of running lol,
it’s the shirt, jumper ridiculous shorts combo and jack Russell at full pelt, you know he only got as far as past the camera, it’s so unbelievable.
TenPin Terry
Not fattist.
Just a sign of your inherent inferiority complex that Boris out for his morning run should trigger you so easily.
He’d probably tell you to shut your cakehole.
Cakehole.Geddit ?
Mwahaha.
Janet, dreams of an alternate universe
hahaha
inferior, that’s a good one
mines more of a goddess complex ;)
goldenbrown
that header in The Independent (uk)
“Gray’s report ‘scrubbed’ by lawyers”
tells you in one short sentence all you need to know
TenPin Terry
What does it tell you ?
The Millie Obnoxious™
Directions to nearest Whetherspoons
The Millie Obnoxious™
That’s what it’s called right? I’ve been up since 4 and feel drunk with the tiredness
Janet, dreams of an alternate universe
ouch, hope the wee one is ok
The Millie Obnoxious™
She is, thanks J.
It was le petit monstre who decided 4am was a perfect time to wake up and run around like a maniac. He is, to be nice about it, a Handful.
Janet, dreams of an alternate universe
I feel your pain, get yourself a nice nap ( hopefully)
TenPin Terry
Close enough.
It’s Wetherspoons.
If there’s one near you they do an excellent good-value breakfast with unlimited coffee to help you stay awake.
I particularly like their smoked salmon and cream cheese bagel.
Marvellous tucker.
Only four points behind for a mid-term government is not too shabby.
Unless Boris gets his collar felt by the Old Bill I sense a turning point has been reached.
Starmer suffering from premature expectation.
TenPin Terry
RIP Barry Cryer.
Brilliant jokesmith and one of the nicest people.
” Two men are playing golf on a course next to a road.
Suddenly, a hearse passes by with a coffin in the back, on the way to a funeral. One of the golfers takes off his hat and says to the other one, ‘I hope you don’t mind. Just wanted to show a bit of respect.’
The other golfer says, ‘That’s so thoughtful of you.’
And the first golfer says, ‘well, she was a good wife.’
Shocking health figures out last night with record numbers of trolley patients in an Irish hospital and nurses “embarrassed” to go to work and witness the levels of overcrowding.
https://m.independent.ie/news/patients-sitting-in-chairs-for-days-as-uhl-runs-out-of-trolleys-amid-highest-numbers-in-years-41282121.html
Taxi for Stephen Donnelly, Minister for doing sod all.
NHS-No Health Servive.
-In 2012, there were 2.5 million cases awaiting specialist treatment in England. By the start of 2020, the backlog had swelled to 4.6 million cases, according to the N.H.S.-
-In England, nearly 6 million procedures are currently delayed, a rise from the backlog of 4.6 million before the pandemic, according to the N.H.S.-
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/26/world/europe/coronavirus-uk-nhs-backlog.html?referringSource=articleShare
I pay my not inconsiderable taxes here in Ireland Beavis.
I’m entitled to know why the health service is so underfunded here.
So should every Irish person who cares about the society they live in and the sorry state the Government has allowed our hospitals to become.
If you don’t give a toss neither will they.
Wibble, wibble … sniffle
Roger Irrelevant
I admit I’ve never read The New Statesman, however, the front page and the irony of context based on the title, current events and items published through journalistic whining and writing is questionable and without logic – not to mention the illustration of an individual in the middle of a glass floor where a shadow on the right shouldn’t be, especially if one is going forward.
“How Mind Works” by Steven Pinker is a good read, as opposed to BS babble by Steph Pinker. Your mind is playing tricks on you tonight. The man in the illustration is clearly walking down a long corridor with the sun shining through windows on his left. His shadow is where it ought to be.
Paddy, tabula rasa isn’t the seedy, smelly, sticky dark corner table in your local brothel.
Were I you I’d start – and end – with The Blank Slate.
Providing you can read without pictures.
:)
The irony of someone who can barely write a sentence complaining about writing. Here’s a tip: break long sentences into two. Maybe read Steven Pinker’s The Sense of Style – it may help with your clarity.
Words and Rules would probably have you both asleep earlier and with something more erudite to dream about.
Good point well made.
Whose ‘liberalism’ is in crisis incidentally?
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/politics/covid-passes-and-hospitality-curbs-to-go-as-nphet-clears-the-way-for-easing-of-almost-all-restrictions-in-coming-days-41262429.html
“Nphet has ..advised that measures in schools should remain in place until such time as children who are eligible have had the opportunity to take a full course of the vaccine.”
As predicted, the recent imposing of mandatory masks on primary school children didn’t have a valid medical basis – it was a measure designed to manufacture disruption in children’s lives in order to then pressurise as many parents as possible into getting their kids jabbed when it came time for the roll out.
There’s no medical or ethical case for the mass administration of this drug to healthy children (risk of Covid for healthy kids extremely low; doesn’t stop transmission; designed for a two-year-old strain no longer in circulation; current dominant strain “markedly vaccine resistant”; any potential benefits are known to wane rapidly requiring indefinite boosters; no long term safety data; shoddy clinical trials; many many kids already exposed to Covid and with naturally acquired immunity, etc, etc).
Have to call a spade a spade at this stage: in my opinion the masking of primary school children is a form of state-sanctioned child abuse. So much damage has been done to people’s trust in public health authorities over the past 2 years. It’s not the sign of a healthy society when said authorities routinely impose measures which have the underlying intention to manipulate and coerce public behaviour rather than the supposed public health benefits they’re ostensibly claimed to be for (vax pass is another eg that comes to mind).
+1 State sanctioned child abuse sums it up well. Shocking behaviour that seeks to coerece and terrorise both parent and child.
It’s hard to argue with any of that. Its even harder to understand NPHETs reasoning. Is it as simple as arrogance
It’s terrible and evil when you completely manufacture motivations that can only be discerned via tea-reading and telepathy and wildly overstating the detrimental effects of masks versus their benefits in reducing spread of the virus along with some fearmongering about the vaccine while ignoring how long it took the government to notice how covid was spreading in schools. Narrative indeed.
You’re too far gone Nigel. I don’t think there’s anything I can really say that might prompt you to engage in a reasonable manner, in your current state. Probably best just to leave you be in your bid to “exert control” over the comment sections. Hope you eventually manage to pull through somehow.
Guess your counter-narratve is just weak.
“Concerns over knock-on effects of Watt’s payrise”
knock-on effects? How about the main effect – his remuneration is now higher than the US president, most TDs, his UK equivalent, etc.
How is this justified? And how is it acceptable that in his previous job, he set the new salary for his current job?
Insane corruption at work
fairly insane stuff alright
(adding to the mountain of head-scratching things about Ireland and how certain people are rewarded)
the only thing I can come up with is that I’d imagine he knows where a lot of bodies are buried..
those fake running shots of that hippo are a living peepee take
Actually went looking for a hippo on the front pages until I realised what you meant.
oh, I actually felt a bit bad saying hippo after I posted, bit fatist and god knows when I see someone heavy running i think fair play because it’s ten times harder,
been getting a few lessons in humility since I was able to lace up again, waiting for the body to catch up with my memory of running lol,
it’s the shirt, jumper ridiculous shorts combo and jack Russell at full pelt, you know he only got as far as past the camera, it’s so unbelievable.
Not fattist.
Just a sign of your inherent inferiority complex that Boris out for his morning run should trigger you so easily.
He’d probably tell you to shut your cakehole.
Cakehole.Geddit ?
Mwahaha.
hahaha
inferior, that’s a good one
mines more of a goddess complex ;)
that header in The Independent (uk)
“Gray’s report ‘scrubbed’ by lawyers”
tells you in one short sentence all you need to know
What does it tell you ?
Directions to nearest Whetherspoons
That’s what it’s called right? I’ve been up since 4 and feel drunk with the tiredness
ouch, hope the wee one is ok
She is, thanks J.
It was le petit monstre who decided 4am was a perfect time to wake up and run around like a maniac. He is, to be nice about it, a Handful.
I feel your pain, get yourself a nice nap ( hopefully)
Close enough.
It’s Wetherspoons.
If there’s one near you they do an excellent good-value breakfast with unlimited coffee to help you stay awake.
I particularly like their smoked salmon and cream cheese bagel.
Marvellous tucker.
More on the Boris is finished narrative.
https://mobile.twitter.com/BritainElects/status/1486642075470864384?cxt=HHwWgIC5ierFzqEpAAAA
Only four points behind for a mid-term government is not too shabby.
Unless Boris gets his collar felt by the Old Bill I sense a turning point has been reached.
Starmer suffering from premature expectation.
RIP Barry Cryer.
Brilliant jokesmith and one of the nicest people.
” Two men are playing golf on a course next to a road.
Suddenly, a hearse passes by with a coffin in the back, on the way to a funeral. One of the golfers takes off his hat and says to the other one, ‘I hope you don’t mind. Just wanted to show a bit of respect.’
The other golfer says, ‘That’s so thoughtful of you.’
And the first golfer says, ‘well, she was a good wife.’