Global Cases: 5,281,704; Deaths: 338,726
The numbers tumble on ever upwards. A month ago, it was 2.6m cases. Now it’s twice that.
The Irish as is their wont call it ‘the covid’. They anoint it with the definite article as they do other mainstays of daily life that deserve a proper noun, such as the weather or the the hurling or the football or the soccer or the horse racing or the main man himself, the pint.
There is a flatness to daily life, as the lockdown continues to drain the rhythms of daily life into the gutter, leaving behind a catatonic state of drabness I call catonia. Things are opening up but it will be a while before things will change for me.