Irish Examiner View: No easy answers post-Covid-19, so patience is essential

Tourism in Ireland has been decimated by Covid-19. Only 28,000 people arrived into the country in May. Picture: Getty Images

A defining characteristic of crisis is uncertainty. Crisis can mean not knowing what might or could happen next and this, naturally, intensifies frustration and generates stress, occasionally panic. Heightened tension at a time of war, natural disaster, famine, economic implosion, or like today, during a pandemic is inevitable.