Joyce Fegan: The curveball of Delta that we just didn't need

After enduring 16 months of restrictions, hardship, loss, and grief, we’d been turning a corner and looking forward — and then the door was abruptly closed

Chief Medical Officer, Dr Tony Holohan during at a public health briefing earlier this week. Picture: Gareth Chaney/Collins

I could distract myself by listening to the new BBC Sounds documentary about freeing Britney Spears. I could feel outrage that a grown woman has no control over her life — financial, reproductive, or otherwise — a life that was pilloried for our entertainment. 

I say “distract”, because in listening to the story of the singer’s conservatorship, there is nothing that I can do to change her situation.