State’s response to pandemic under fresh scrutiny as Government prepares terms for its review
Last week, a paper by Prof Martin Cormican emerged in which he argued that Ireland “excessively limited basic freedoms” and “depended too much on fear to influence behaviour”.
Testing, contact tracing and mask use “generated a mass of anxiety and a mass of waste and made some people very wealthy”, he wrote. In Britain, former health secretary Matt Hancock is under pressure after a trove of more than 100,000 WhatsApp messages he sent during the pandemic was leaked to the Daily Telegraph newspaper.
While it would be “absolutely fine” to learn lessons, one official said it would be “nanoseconds” before becoming a blame game.found “significant concerns” with the initial response and management of the spike in cases in the Health Service Executive facility.
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