Not sure of the implication of your post or what concrete measure you are proposing.
If we proposed mandatory enforced isolation of people who another person merely identified as a close contacts we would no doubt have an 'endless debate' about it too.
I'm not saying it isn't a concern. But tackling is it presents as much issues as e.g. mandatory enforced quarantine or testing of travellers from high risk countries.
Why wouldn't someone identified as a close contact not want to be tested or come forward? It is because they know they will be expected to isolate for 14 days.
I'm not sure what hysteria you are talking about. Who is jumping up and down?
Does a front page on the Irish Times not count as jumping up and down but a front page elsewhere does?
It seems entirely reasonable to question the risks attached to travel and especially travel from higher risk countries to this country, and even more so if there will be an increase in such travel.
Community transmission kicked off initially with international travel, we presume.
When we say community transmission, what we really mean is, ultimately don't really know the source.
We can link a chain but we don't know the starting patient.
So I am a bit dubious about being too certain that community transmission accounting for the majority of cases implies foreign travel is low risk.
It's all connected - social distancing, masks - especially in the context of foreign high-risk visitors and infected people walking about.
So, it's entirely possible to be concerned about multiple issues. It's not one or the other as your post seems to pre-judge.
The person quoted as expressing concerns about the issue is the acting Chief Medical Officer of the state.
Are you only allowing him to be concerned about one thing???
And what do you propose he and the government do about it that is politically feasible?
Bearing in mind the authorities have much more scope re: powers connected to travel in general than they do citizens of this state going about their everyday business.
Where did I say that we can't worry about only one thing? Where did I say it wasn't about multiple issues? Where did I say travel was low risk because communiry transmission was the cause of majority of cases? Where did I say it was unreasonable to question foreign travel?
If you don't know about the hysteria about flights, I suggest you read every newspaper for the past week. Listen to radio shows. Watch prime time or tonight show. Check out social media. Listen to CMO briefings and listen to the questions. Just because there isn't hysteria on AAM doesnt mean it isn't there. Media camping at the airport to question people who have arrived in and grill them on their intentions is hysteria....
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