Let us cast our minds back for a moment to March 2021. This was pretty much the height of the Covid Panic in Ireland. The vaccination programme was ramping up and those of us who did not take the jab were pretty much social pariahs as the modern-day reincarnation of Typhoid Mary.
You couldn’t get to see a match even if you had a cert and although there was a gradual re-opening of schools – less than 0.2% (18) of the deaths were of under 24s so the closures were unnecessary in the first place – restrictions on most other things were draconian.
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