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Tue 10 Oct 2006Creating laws for a pandemic
Heart Beat/Maurice Neligan:Wisdom excelleth folly as far as light excelleth darkness - Ecclesiastes ch.2, v.13. You can choose a definition of folly. Feeling charitable today, I will settle for "lack of good sense".
The Irish Council for Bioethics has just held a symposium concerning the ethical dilemmas posed by a pandemic. In this forum a worthy lawyer pointed out that the Constitution might have to be altered to allow an appropriate response to such an event. Dear Jesus, I thought; did I really read that?
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