Letter to the Editor: We need to suppress, not live with, coronavirus

Social distancing signage at Holycross GAA Club, Ballycahill, Co. Tipperary. Photo: INPHO/James Crombie

Like many other people, I had never heard of Dr Michael Ryan until March of this year, during the outbreak of Covid-19. This executive director of the World Health Organisation hit our TV screens in dramatic fashion, as he explained how we needed to ‘take the fight to the virus’.

In a stark warning to governments, he stated that ‘speed trumps perfection”. He further went on to explain that ‘the virus will always get you, if you don’t move quickly’.