Our View: Outcry over public shelters will soon be forgotten

There was outrage when the government announced, shortly after the drone strike on Akrotiri base that civil defence shelters were enough for about 45 per cent of the population. The conclusion of the angry media commentators was that the state had failed the citizens yet again, leaving half of them to perish in the event of a mass aerial bombardment of Cyprus, which is not an imminent threat facing the country.

Yet people have become so accustomed to complaining about the alleged inadequacies of the state services...