Author Archives: slushisushi

Earlier in the Covid catastrophe, way back in April, May, I kept a blog on the Covid thing, sharing the numbers and the headline news, watching keenly as the scale mushroomed exponentially – from thousands to tens of thousands, from … Continue reading →

Earlier in the Covid catastrophe, way back in April, May, I kept a blog on the Covid thing, sharing the numbers and the headline news, watching keenly as the scale mushroomed exponentially – from thousands to tens of thousands, from … Continue reading →

Cases: 13,372,011; Deaths: 587,782 Ireland Cases: 25,683; Deaths: 1,748 Here in Ireland the first wave of Covid infections has been subdued. The talk now is of reopening, economic costs and attendant risks. Just yesterday, the planned reopening of pubs set … Continue reading →

Global Cases: 7,325,839; Deaths: 413,761 Locally, the number of new cases has slowed to a trickle – yesterday there was 9 – and people have moved on from obsessing about the disease to obsessing about ‘opening up’ as businesses and … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

Global cases: 4,716,983; Deaths; 312,385 Since I wrote last the cases have near doubled and the deaths have kept pace. The numbers have become numbers, inevitably, as humans do as we do. Our attention span has evolved for daily challenges, … Continue reading →

Global Cases: 2,646,247; Deaths: 184,352; The sun’s been shining the last couple of days and along the river the number of joggers, cyclists, dog walkers, and strollers has increased. “the swallows are back too, you see them flying around’, a … Continue reading →

Global Cases: 2,069,279; Deaths: 133,362 April 15 That is what my partner said to me as she sweated over a post she was composing for instagram. Too covidy, y’know acting too solicitous online, trawling for public hugs as you flaunt … Continue reading →