Letters to the editor: Protecting rights of the wealthy during pandemic

A passenger is escorted to a coach for quarantine by a member of the defence forces after arriving at Dublin Airport last week.

It’s laughable that the Attorney General is now concerned about human rights and treaty rights over mandatory hotel quarantine — ‘Attorney General writes to Minister with concerns over extending hotel quarantine list’ (Irish Examiner, online, April 1).

If you’re going to pick and choose rights to protect, it’s telling that you choose to protect the right of wealthy countries to travel internationally. Perhaps take a look around you. None of us can travel further than 5km. We’ve had to do that, because of a failure to control importation of new Covid-19 variants.