Last week, two of the three principal arms of the State the Dáil and the judiciary morphed into drama queens. They completely misinterpreted expert advice on the management of the coronavirus crisis. The State had hitherto been good at projecting a sense of calm and at delivering clear and consistent messages to the public. Now, there was panic, not among ordinary citizens, but within the political and legal elites.
A garbled, alarmist version of this very specific advice then spread through the top layers of the State apparatus like fake news on social media
This story started with a very sensible piece of advice from the National Public Health Emergency Team. Fans of Star Trek will have understood it immediately: never put all your ranking officers on the same space shuttle. If you have a leadership team in close physical contact with each other, and one of them tests positive for Covid-19, they will all have to be tested and to self-isolate for 14 days. This could knock out the top management all at once. The advice, therefore, is: dont have all your core management group in the same room for more than two hours at a time.
More Stories
“Nobody is the reason for my death. My family is having to bear a lot of expenses because of me. I am a burden to them, my education is a burden to them….” A day after she wrote this note, Aishwarya Reddy, a student at Lady Shri Ram College for Women in Delhi…
Tom Brady’s arrival had the Buccaneers dreaming of an NFC South title, but the Saints showed the QB and his team they’re a far from being a contender.
Barnaby Joyce claims he told Malcolm Turnbull ‘others’ were having affairs