Denial, panic, resilience.

Welcome to the crisis of January 2021, and the decisions and actions that got us here. https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/una-mullally-we-are-good-at-denial-and-now-must-pay-the-price-1.4449168

Related to today's column: In September, I wrote that Christmas was "a perfect Petri dish for transmission... an absolute disaster for everything Covid-related. It is an almost complete confluence of everything we’ve been told to avoid." https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/una-mullally-how-will-we-handle-christmas-our-biggest-covid-19-challenge-yet-1.4353801

And in November I wrote that the way restrictions were being lifted "creates a context for public health advice and guidelines being breached," and that "adherence to public health guidelines will once again start to fall apart." https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/una-mullally-restriction-lifting-opens-menu-of-activities-from-which-to-choose-1.4422790

I'm tweeting these pieces again because a political narrative is forming around "hindsight", as if all of what is now unfolding wasn't foreseen.

Yes, the situation in Ireland is worse now than we could have predicted, but the warnings were there from Nphet and plenty of others.