Irish Examiner letters: This country needs martial law to tackle pandemic

Travel restrictions being ignored, vaccination programme too slow, it's time for firm borders, says one of our letter-writers, Dr Florence Craven

Ttravellers walking through Dublin Airport with their luggage during a national Lockdown. Do our highly-paid, but inept, politicians and medical experts really believe that someone would book a sun holiday this week just to stay in a hotel for their entire holiday and further isolate when they return home? Photograph: Leah Farrell / RollingNews.ie

Something akin to martial law will have to be implemented as human nature is basically selfish. All travel in/out of the country should have stopped months ago. There will have to be border checks in the North, even if this upsets trivial political sensibilities.

Do our highly-paid, but inept, politicians and medical experts really believe that someone would book a sun holiday this week just to stay in a hotel for their entire holiday? Can these miscreants be further trusted to further isolate once they return to Ireland? I wouldn’t trust them to be that socially conscious. Such selfishness needs to grasped by the neck, instead of applying the usual impotent and timorous “solutions”. In my experience, most gardaí just don’t care about packed houses during lockdowns.