Takeaway Pint

I am tired and fatigued at being constantly told by pundits that I am tired of lockdown and fatigued by restrictions. Actually, like everyone else, I can’t say I’m exactly enjoying lockdown. However, like most others, I see the necessity of lockdown restrictions and am willing to put up with them.

What I do find very hard to put up with is the Tragic Chorus from Ibec, The Vintners Association, and The Defenders of The Itish Way, I mean various rural TDs, telling me ‘I’m not up to it.’ Actually, though I’m 75 and live on my own, I think I am. On the other hand, I can well understand the serious financial worries of people with family businesses and employees on low incomes.

That said, COVID, as one immunologist put it, ‘goes about looking for loopholes’ and, if we are foolish enough to provide the ‘loopholes’, then we could see hospitals unable to cope and more deaths in nursing homes. So, yes we do need lockdowns and restrictions, at least until a vaccine arrives. However, what we don’t need is lockdowns and restrictions that simply don’t work.