Today is March 30th
The clocks went forward yesterday, summer time and long evenings are here. I had to look that up, I wasn’t sure you see if it was backwards or forwards, the description that is, I knew 7pm became 8pm but was that change backward for forward? Could be either to my mind. But forwards it is. Ireland went into deeper lockdown on Friday, March 27th with further closings on non-essential businesses, a strengthened proscription of unnecessary travel, and a distance limit of 2km from home for exercise and other non-essential movement. This is due to end April 12 but that’s unlikely. The first significant local step was the closing of schools on March 14th. We have a ways to go. The Dow Jone index sits at 21,636 before the opening bell on March 30th. It peaked in February at 29,500, a drop of close to 27%. This is after a week in which it climbed off lows by over 10% to ‘have its best week since the 30ties’. Global cases continue their exponential increase, they are now at 734,994. Global darts are at 34,781. The US continues to set the pace with 142,746 cases while Italy leads the macabre death chart, with 10,779. Ireland’s numbers continue to creep up with 2,615 cases of infection and 46 deaths.
I expected with the new restrictions on travel that the river side walk would get busier. You know, get out of the house, get some exercise…that kind of thing. Not so. It was as empty and devoid of people as the streets. People are heeding the government and staying indoors. This shit’s better than a Netflix story of small town supernatural weirdness. Do we have any Covid-19 cults yet? Any doomsayers to tell us that this is part of the plan, and that we will regret not heeding the warnings? As with the scammers just give it time.