‘We could have done more to change stuff after Covid and we haven’t’ – Five years on, experts assess the impact of the pandemic on health, work, property and hospitality

‘We could have done more to change stuff after Covid and we haven’t’ – Five years on, experts assess the impact of the pandemic on health, work, property and hospitality

The fifth anniversary of Ireland’s Covid-19 response passed by unremarkably at the start of this month — perhaps because the pandemic is a time many wish to forget.

The Covid-19 pandemic represented a turning point on a global scale. Lockdowns and travel bans, social distancing and the use of masks to try to stop the virus led to a situation unimaginable a few weeks earlier. At the same time, while everything was coming to a standstill, daily reports of deaths and new infections occupied the centrality of the news, when they were not the only news at times. On February 9, 2020, exactly five years ago, the f…