David McWilliams: The business trip is dead. Dublin goes into mourning

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Surprising amount of urban economy depends on maligned business traveller

Right now business travel is down 96 per cent since the start of 2020. Photograph: iStock

Now that we are looking at the beginning of the end of the pandemic, it is time to assess the likely long-term impact of this experience on the economy. Calling the end of a pandemic is obviously fraught with danger, but at some stage we have to believe in science. The various successful vaccines that have recently been announced will allow us to re-enter the 21st century in terms of the tools we deploy to fight this disease. For nearly a year, we’ve been using medieval technology; the quarantine has its origins in the 6th century when the emperor Justinian sought to stop a plague by isolating certain groups arriving in Constantinople.

 

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