Joyce Fegan: We need a Covid exit roadmap instead of personal agendas

It feels at times that there is no one in charge, it also feels like you’re just behaving really, really well, waiting for someone in charge to give you the green light to live like normal again, writes Joyce Fegan

 Dr Tony Holohan, Chief Medical Officer, Department of Health. The thing about medics having the authority to make big national decisions is they have no skin in the game, in that they have no agenda like popularity, the seeking of ministerial status or re-election.

Do you remember being in school and the clock would read 8.59am, and there'd be no sign of the teacher, then 9am, and still no sign of the múinteoir, and then 9.05am, and there was still no sign? As a child it felt exciting — this feeling that there was no adult coming, that you were authority-free.

It kind of feels like that now. Except we're a year into a global pandemic.