Six months into this crisis, we’re no longer talking about the better world waiting on the other side. The goalposts for our exit plan have shifted from six months, to a year or more, to the length of a piece of string. In fact, nobody is using the words “exit plan” anymore. We’re slamming into the second wave, and this time around, no one is bulk-buying flour. Neighbours have stopped dropping cheery notes into one another’s letterboxes, and instead are suspiciously counting the cars parked in their driveways.

Source: The Irish Times September 19, 2020 00:00 UTC