People need to remember the fear that people had when we knew significantly less about the virus. We were telling doctors and nurses to go to work and deal directly with Covid patients when they were looking at their TVs like the rest of us and seeing scenes like carparks full of patients on ventilators in Italy and doctors there explaining that they were having to decide who got the oxygen as there wasn't enough.
I have massive respect for the people who went in to work and tried to help people under this conditions. I read numerous articles about doctors and nurses were living apart from their families to try to keep them safe.
At the same time the Gardaí, paramedics, fire service and numerous other public services were told they had to go to work, and could not socially distance like the public were being advised to.. no idea who they were coming into contact with and probably scared shitless they would bring the virus home.
Easy now to look back and say that it was grand, but i know how I'd have felt about any of those jobs at a certain point in time
