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Top Doctors Accuse Governments of Coordinated Failures in Covid Response

Old Mate | June 19, 2025

Top Doctors Accuse Governments of Coordinated Failures in Covid Response

Two respected Irish scientists have delivered a blistering critique of how Covid-19 was managed both in Ireland and globally, accusing public health authorities of ignoring science, silencing dissent, and enforcing policies that caused more harm than good.

In a powerful interview with broadcaster Niall Boylan, molecular biologist Dr. Gerry Quinn and environmental researcher Dr. Ronan Connolly claimed that governments followed a script that defied logic, suppressed alternative viewpoints, and led to a wave of unnecessary suffering.

The interview comes on the heels of a major scientific paper co-authored by the two doctors and 35 others, titled What Lessons Can Be Learned from the Management of the COVID-19 Pandemic. The paper, published in a peer-reviewed journal, challenges nearly every pillar of pandemic-era public health policy, from lockdowns and PCR testing to vaccine rollout and the role of the media.


“The Measures Made No Sense”

Dr. Quinn described how early Covid measures lacked any solid scientific basis. “I worked in HIV labs. I understand infection control. What they were proposing made no immunological sense. It was all theatre,” he said.

Supermarket screens, arbitrary mask rules, and contradictory guidelines were not only ineffective, he argued, but created a false sense of safety. “If this had been a truly deadly airborne virus, the way we handled public spaces would have guaranteed mass infection,” Quinn added.

Dr. Connolly, who contracted Covid himself in early 2020, agreed. He described the panic-driven modeling used by governments as “garbage in, garbage out.” “These models were based on outdated equations from the 1920s, with no biology, no sociology, no realism. They predicted chaos because they were built to do exactly that.”


Data Distortion and Censorship

The doctors claim that fatality rates were wildly inflated through misleading reporting standards. In both Ireland and the UK, deaths “with Covid” were routinely reported as deaths “from Covid.” As Boylan pointed out during the show, even Leo Varadkar admitted that some deaths labeled as Covid-related had nothing to do with the virus.

Dr. Quinn noted that anyone who questioned the official line risked professional ruin. “I know doctors who told my producer they couldn’t answer certain questions truthfully or they’d lose their job. That’s the level of control we were dealing with.”

Dr. Connolly added that scientific dissent was systematically stifled. “Our paper took years to get published. Meanwhile, studies supporting lockdowns were being rushed through peer review in days. That’s not science. That’s narrative control.”


Vaccine Policy Under Fire

One of the most controversial parts of the interview focused on the rapid deployment of mRNA vaccines. Dr. Quinn was clear: “I don’t believe they should have been released. There were too many unknowns. This was gene technology, experimental, and rolled out under emergency legislation.”

Dr. Connolly revealed that other WHO-approved vaccines using traditional methods were blocked or ignored in Ireland and other Western nations. “The Chinese and Russian vaccines used inactivated viruses. They were passed by the WHO. But here, only the mRNA and DNA vaccines were accepted. That was never about health. That was about politics.”

Boylan noted that most people who got vaccinated did so out of pressure, not personal health concern. “Only a small percentage of people I polled said they took the vaccine for health reasons. The rest did it to travel or keep their jobs.”

Dr. Quinn said he personally refused the vaccine after reviewing the sequence and safety data. “It was not a vaccine in the traditional sense. It was a reprogramming tool. I wasn’t going to inject that into myself.”


Institutional Silence and the WHO Treaty

The doctors warn that the same mistakes could happen again. Despite public outrage, no Irish government inquiry has materialized. “They keep promising an investigation, but nobody wants accountability,” said Boylan.

Dr. Connolly worries that the WHO’s new pandemic treaty could make things worse. “Most countries have signed on. If we don’t learn the lesson now, next time will be even more controlled, more top-down, and even less open to scrutiny.”

At the heart of their argument is the belief that censorship, not Covid, did the most lasting damage. “Science thrives on disagreement,” Connolly said. “We were not allowed to disagree. And if we cannot ask questions, we are no longer doing science. We are following orders.”


A Warning for the Future

The conversation concluded with a stark warning. “We wrote this paper so the record cannot be rewritten,” said Dr. Quinn. “People died, lives were shattered, careers were destroyed, and if we let this go unexamined, it will all happen again.”

Listen to the full episode Here

Full Paper can be found Here



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    What Lessons Can Be Learned from the Management of the Covid-19 Pandemic? With Dr. Gerry Quinn & Dr. Ronan Connolly
    Niall Boylan

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