Almost two years after the pandemic started, we’re back to where we started — and may be worse off than ever.
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Almost two years after the pandemic started, we’re back to where we started — and may be worse off than ever.
Continue readingBy William J. Furney It’s the most difficult challenge of our time, and there’s one question every country on the planet wants an answer to — except one, unless it
Continue readingBy William J. Furney So far it’s mostly been a typical washout of a summer in England, which should surprise no one living there, but still it does. A few
Continue readingBy William J. Furney The pandemic we’re still embroiled in, more than a year on, is this century’s “Chernobyl moment”, says a report into the global health catastrophe published this
Continue readingBy William J. Furney Almost everyone agrees it’s a case of when, not if, another catastrophic pandemic will erupt, killing millions more and bringing the world to a shuddering halt
Continue readingBy William J. Furney I wasn’t so much invited into her apartment as ushered in without much of a choice, or a mask. “Kein problem,” she said, but it could
Continue readingBy William J. Furney What has China done with a citizen journalist reporting on the early days of the coronavirus pandemic from the epicentre in Wuhan? Praised her efforts at
Continue readingBy William J. Furney If there’s one thing many of us have learned this year, it’s a big lesson in humility. For all our freedoms and liberties, and desires to
Continue readingBy William J. Furney If you’re giving out awards to “people of the year”, in this of all years, it probably shouldn’t take you long to realise who is most
Continue readingBy William J. Furney Families are having to pay many hundreds of euros for negative coronavirus tests to get into places like Spain, placing an additional burden on them in
Continue readingBy William J. Furney Garda (Irish police) checkpoints, traffic jammed and snaking back further than the eye can see, everything except places of business selling “essential services” shuttered for over
Continue readingBy William J. Furney Donald Trump, approaching his 80s, gets coronavirus and is out in public and attending an election rally days later. The queen of Britain, getting on to
Continue readingBy William J. Furney World leaders were not jetting to New York this week for the annual spectacle that is the United Nations General Assembly, but instead, thanks to coronavirus,
Continue readingBy William J. Furney The man who destroyed the World Health Organisation, as though it was struck down by a lethal virus, doesn’t know when to stop. Tedros is at
Continue readingBy William J. Furney Cases of coronavirus are breaking out all over Europe, but hospital emergency rooms are not overflowing and hardly anyone is now dying from the pathogen that
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