Irish Examiner view: Any further rise of Covid cases is down to us

Health Minister Stephen Donnelly with Brigadier General Brendan McGuinness, Commander of the Defence Forces Covid-19 Joint Taskforce, and Oonagh Buckley, Deputy Secretary General, Department of Justice, at a technical briefing on mandatory hotel quarantine. Picture: Colin Keegan, Collins Dublin

At moments of crisis, a solution just beyond reach can have a particular allure.

The “if only we could...” argument gathers an undue significance and can seem more important than it is.