Irish Examiner view: Long-lasting legacy of our response

The way we behave now may help determine when and how we emerge from the Covid-19 pandemic

Among the measures being marshalled to tackle the fouth wave are a vaccine booster programme, antigen testing, and mandatory mask-wearing in crowded areas both indoors and outside. File picture

There have been times during the Covid-19 pandemic that we have felt that victory was within our grasp.

Numbers were low, restrictions easing, and a sense that normality, whatever that is, was returning. Yet every time we dare to dream that we are released from the Covid stranglehold, we are soon disabused of our hopes.