Contrast, for example, the two governments’ respective approaches this week to addressing the issue of youth unemployment by propping up an obvious target sector, tourism and hospitality. Why have we scaled down our testing and tracing system in recent weeks, after hyperventilating about building it out for months? Organisational flakinessIt is unfortunate that the tourism and travel sector gets treated in this slapdash way by the politicians. How else will we pay wages of those in the public sector, such as academics? In the meantime, the tourism industry is reduced to ashes.

Source: The Irish Times July 10, 2020 04:17 UTC