{"id":423,"date":"2021-01-06T14:00:08","date_gmt":"2021-01-06T19:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wanderofwanders.com\/?p=423"},"modified":"2025-08-26T18:10:47","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T22:10:47","slug":"ireland-is-on-coronavirus-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wanderofwanders.com\/index.php\/2021\/01\/06\/ireland-is-on-coronavirus-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland is on coronavirus fire"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1472\" height=\"1104\" src=\"https:\/\/wanderofwanders.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_0279.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wanderofwanders.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_0279.jpeg 1472w, https:\/\/wanderofwanders.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_0279-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/wanderofwanders.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_0279-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/wanderofwanders.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_0279-768x576.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1472px) 100vw, 1472px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Well, readers, I have managed thusfar to avoid writing \u201cThe\nCOVID Blog.\u201d But I\u2019m afraid that time has come to an end. Ireland is certainly\nall of its beauty and antiquities, its music and its lilting laughter. However,\nit is today also a country in trouble, with a strained health care system,\nweary people, and spiraling cases. COVID is not only the only conversation around\n(Brexit coming in a very pale second), it\u2019s a damned depressing one. And while\nI\u2019ve kept it at bay in my writing these last six months, the time has come to\nshare some thoughts. Not because Ireland has it any worse than anyplace else,\nalthough per capita it might, but because COVID-19 has I think overcome the\ncountry\u2019s gentle heart. Not because I do not believe we are all in this\ntogether, I do, but because I would by lying if I said this situation has not\nmessed with this stranger in a land if not strange then at least unfamiliar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A little background is important to put this in perspective.\nIn early December, Ireland phased out of a six-week, Level 5 lockdown. Less-onerous\nLevel 3 strictures were put in place and were expected to last until a\nreevaluation on Jan. 6. At the time, Ireland had one of the lowest COVID-19\nrates in Europe in no small part because this tired country dug deep and found\nthe resolve to stay home throughout the late fall as its government asked. Prime\nMinister Micheal Martin was mindful that in this most social of places, where\nfamily means everything, it would be important to have at least some limited\nsemblance of the holidays even if only a few family members could gather. The\ncountry\u2019s Chief Medical Officer Tony Holohan was less certain this was a good\nidea, but said he felt if people obeyed the restrictions that the country could\nmanage. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And then all hell broke loose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not long before Christmas, cases started multiplying\nseemingly out of control, alarming and horrifying the country\u2019s health care and\npolitical leaders. Just for instance, I chose two relatively recent days: On\nDec. 15, 329 positive cases were reported, and the 14-day incident rate per\n100,000 population was 94.2. On Jan. 6, as I write this, 7,836 positive cases\nhave been reported; and the 14-day incident rate is 819. The positivity rate of\nthose tested is a frightening 21.8 percent. And I\u2019d better publish this today. The\nnumber of daily cases climbed by more than 2,000 since yesterday. Clearly,\nChristmas strictures did not go to government plan. And gee whiz, I get it.\nAsked to stay home for six weeks, people were ready to go shopping, meet\nfriends and family. But as they say, COVID is the life of the party. And as if\nthat weren\u2019t bad enough, into this mix came Christmas coal in the stocking from\nthe United Kingdom: a novel strain was discovered that spread the disease very\nquickly and easily, and of course with that porous UK\/Ireland relationship, it\nwasn\u2019t long before the strain started showing up here. Today, 25 percent of all\ncases can be traced to this novel strain. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The result of all this? This a country on coronavirus fire\nright now. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So it was surprising to no one when Martin announced that\nthat Jan. 6 deadline was a pipe dream, and strictures as severe as or more\nsevere than any imposed thusfar were to begin. In a recent speech, easily the dozenth\nto which I\u2019ve listened, he was somber in a way that the others were not. \u201cWe\nare all weary from the bottom of our hearts of this disease and the impact it\u2019s\nhad on our lives. The next month as we face into these strictest controls in\nthe depth of winter is going to be tough on everyone.\u201d Today in new remarks, his\nlanguage was nearly cataclysmic: \u201cThe personal decisions we make will directly\naffect how many more people get sick and how many die.\u201d A clearly startled\nHolohan has practically begged everyone to stay home. Period. End of thought.\nEnd of discussion. Yes, the vaccine has arrived; yes, help is on the way; yes,\nthere\u2019s light at the end of the tunnel. Pick your trite metaphor. But in the\nmeantime, hunker down and prepare for a siege. And in case the message needs\nrepeating, this\u2026means\u2026you!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And so I join my fellow countrymen in staying put. This\nmeans we must not venture beyond 3 miles from home, means working hard to find someone\nto get your groceries if you\u2019re over 70, means schools are closed until at\nleast the end of the month, the pubs that have been closed since last March\n(with one brief respite) remain closed and restaurants are only offering\ntakeout, that construction work has been halted, \u201cclick (online) and collect\n(in person)\u201d from retailers is suspended, funerals limited to 10 mourners and\nweddings to six people. No hairdresser, cinemas, galleries or museums. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These strictures mark the contours of my life, just as they\ndid through November and early December. Summer was less contained at Level 3\nbut still, no pubs, no festivals, very limited and only outdoor music &amp;et. Here\nin Corofin, the community center offers weekly social dances and bingo, monthly\nmarkets, classes and who knows what else, but all have been suspended since\nbefore my arrival. I joined a local land trust, but all of its activities from\nmonthly tea talks to volunteer opportunities have been put on hold. I am not a\nshy person by any stretch, but nor am I the kind who is altogether comfortable\nmaking small talk, so my opportunities for interaction have been quite limited.\nIt is certainly fair to say that life here for me has been lived to one side.\nDon\u2019t get me wrong. I\u2019m delighted I\u2019ve made one really solid friendship since\narriving, and made another that is evolving but getting stronger. I have read\nposts on Americans Living in Ireland or Americans in Ireland (yes, two separate\nFacebook groups) from those who have lived here for years yet have real\ndifficulty making meaningful friendships with Irish people. I walk out my door\nand into some of the most amazing countryside in the world, getting lost in the\nrolling hills, the thickets, the craggy boundary walls, the flowering plants\nthat take root in the green verge even now, the bird song (!) in January. My\nfellow walkers are starting to recognize me and sometimes we stop for a brief (socially\ndistanced, of course) chat. The folks in the local convenience store and the An\nPost postal worker know me by sight. So I am blessed in many ways. And, to top\nit all off, this old broad is going to be among the first to get the vaccine.\nSoon, I will be writing from those far-flung European hamlets and cities I\nintend to visit, I will be visiting my daughter in Rwanda, I will travel to all\nthose places here in Ireland that have been shut down since my arrival. Ennis\nhas, I understand, a world-renowned music festival, as does my tiny town here\nin Corofin (though likely not world-renowned).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In other words, all will be well. Eventually. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you have a spare moment for prayer or meditation, the\nIrish people could sure use the boost, I think. This is a long way from over, the\nnumbers are so alarming, the grit and determination to stay put is getting way\nold, the economy is suffering and under the double whammy of Brexit. This is a\nsmall country with few people, and I think they\u2019re feeling the strain. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thanks for listening. I needed this!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, readers, I have managed thusfar to avoid writing \u201cThe COVID Blog.\u201d But I\u2019m afraid that time has come to an end. Ireland is certainly all of its beauty and antiquities, its music and its lilting laughter. However, it is today also a country in trouble, with a strained health care system, weary people, and spiraling cases. COVID is not only the only conversation around (Brexit coming in a very pale second), it\u2019s a damned depressing one. And while I\u2019ve kept it at bay in my writing these last six months, the time has come to share some thoughts. Not because Ireland has it any &#8230; <a title=\"Ireland is on coronavirus fire\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/wanderofwanders.com\/index.php\/2021\/01\/06\/ireland-is-on-coronavirus-fire\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Ireland is on coronavirus fire\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1413,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ireland is on coronavirus fire - Not all who wander are lost<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/wanderofwanders.com\/index.php\/2021\/01\/06\/ireland-is-on-coronavirus-fire\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ireland is on coronavirus fire - Not all who wander are lost\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Well, readers, I have managed thusfar to avoid writing \u201cThe COVID Blog.\u201d But I\u2019m afraid that time has come to an end. 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