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David W. Higgins
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David W. Higgins
@higginsdavidw
Independent Economist | #MilestoneRecession and many other topics
📻 RTÉ / Newstalk
✍️ Irish Independent / Verecon (Substack)
📊 Former COVID data guy
- This week we mark 1 year since Dr. Li Wenliang sounded the alarm over a large number of SARS-like patients at his Wuhan hospital. Li was silenced by the police and kept working with his patients. In early January he caught the new disease and died from it in February aged 33.
- A European source appalled by the staging of Chinese aid: "When we sent aid to them, they asked us to be discreet, they did not want to lose face." Reminder: the EU has delivered 56 tonnes of medical equipment to China.
- People with A energy rated houses in 28 degree heat
- I've posted this chart before but I've never felt so strongly that the whole country needs to see it. This wave is not the same as the first. Hospital and ICU numbers are a fraction of where they were in April. Deaths are only at 2.7% of peak. Level 5 would be excessive.
- It's wonderful to see @Glinner slowly coming back from years on the sidelines. One of Ireland's greatest exports. I'm just sorry I didn't tweet anything in support of him sooner. I've felt it for too long.Chris O'Dowd says Graham Linehan is 'the best comedy writer I've worked with' as he becomes latest star to back 'cancelled' IT Crowd and Father Ted creator dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…
- Cork had Ireland's first case of community transmission. When county data was first published, Cork had 18% of total cases. As of Thursday, it only had 10%. The rate of growth in Cork is now only 8% daily. Looks like they're taking it seriously down there. Well done Cork!
- Irish fanboys of the Iranian clerical regime in mourning today
- Going viral on TikTok - This interaction between Minister @EmerHigginsTD and columnist @DavQuinn #aras25 #aras2025
00:00 - Outdoor gatherings = 0.1% of cases International travel = 0.37% of cases Two molehills turned into mountains this past year
- YES, c'mon Italy! 🇮🇹 We now have ONE WEEK of case growth below 10%. 5.6% is the lowest daily increase so far. #FlattenTheCurve is happening. Forza!
Growth of 6.9%, the lowest since Italy's outbreak began. Day 6 of single-digit growth. Encouraging. Lockdown is working, but the burden on the healthcare isn't yet easing.
