The Irish Examiner View: Other crises will follow this one

When the lockdown was imposed to halt the community spread of Covid-19 there was fear in some quarters that the cure could turn out to be worse than the disease because it meant that we now had to deal with not one, but three crises: health, economic and social. The first was caused by an outside force but the second and third were self-imposed.

Now, as we begin to emerge from some restrictions, thoughts go to recovery plans. Amid discussions between Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil on what form they should take, the fear again is that the cure could be worse than the disease.