Irish Examiner View: Spirit of Living With Covid plan as important as the details

At this stage, we all have a good idea of what we must do to limit coronavirus.

Once British judges were precluded from putting on their black caps at the end of a trial so they might impose the ultimate sanction they, in the most dreadful cases, ordered that the guilty person be "detained at Her Majesty's pleasure." 

This was a sentence without a predetermined end, one that could roll on and on and might not end until the convict either died or showed that they were no longer a threat to society. We, it seems, are constrained at the pandemic's pleasure though a positive outcome is far more likely than any offered under those draconian terms.