Fintan O’Toole: Five years after Covid, we scorn health workers, ignore vaccines and work in offices

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Fintan O’Toole: Five years after Covid, we scorn health workers, ignore vaccines and work in offices
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What happened to the need to end commuting and presenteeism? Or to our gratitude for healthcare workers or our resolution to change how we care for older people?

Whatever happened to the need to end commuting and presenteeism? Or to our gratitude for healthcare workers or our resolution to change how we care for older people?

It was a simulation, a visual metaphor, but it made this abstract threat into a spiky mine floating towards us on an unstoppable tide.It’s a national indignity that the new government will rely on Michael Lowry‘My grandad is dead. I am going to tennis today’: Christmas letters to my son, 1997 You glimpse at the back of the medicine cabinet an out-of-date Covid test and feel again the violation of a cotton-tipped stick penetrating the secret and tender cavities of your nose.

We have still not had a proper accounting for this disaster, but one truth is obvious: out of sight is out of mind. Segregating older people from their homes, families and communities makes them less visible and therefore more vulnerable. What have we done about this? Really nothing – there is no strategy to keep as many people in their own homes as possible.

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