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1) Every time I read someone quote 'personal responsibility' for rising Covid rates, I despair at how individualistic society has become for some of us. Not everyone has the same resources & abilities to exert the same level of 'personal responsibility. '
2) Renters, people living in care, or homeless settings, family members living with problem drinkers, families with conflicting views on safe activities, workers working with those who socialised, people in hospitality roles, just some with varying ability to make safe choices.
3) We live & die in systems. People who live alone or with functioning family & work units are exceptionally privileged to be able to make safe personal choices. That is not the experience of every individual, or indeed the experience of many in Irish society.
4) Knowing many individuals would make unsafe choices, Govt policy supported activities & sectors linked with the spread of disease, ignoring expert advice, resulting in an exacerbation of the social issues they claimed to have taken into account.
5) As result, we now have intensified levels of domestic violence, child & adult protection concerns, nursing home residents are cut off from families, increased deaths & non Covid healthcare will grind to a halt. Responsible & informed govt policy would have prevented this.
