For no reason at all I was down. And that's ok.
I did all the right things, I was awake before my alarm and we got out for a walk in the park with the dog. I ooohed and aaahed at wildlife and made light conversation. But I felt down.
The weight of the pandemic got to me.
I got straight in to working when I got home but still felt bad at lunchtime.
We didn't really have time for a walk as we were both busy with work but we said we would go for a quick one. It cheered me up - the weather was nice, the traffic was quiet and we had a nice chat as we walked and Bones mosied along beside us.
Later I saw the numbers of new cases here in Ireland, announced by the CMO Dr Tony Holohan.
16 deaths (RIP) and 51 additional cases
We are doing well, the numbers are reducing.
We are testing and tracing.
Presumably there will be 51 phone calls made by the tracing team to the 51 people who tested Covid positive. They will give details of everyone they were in contact with (hopefully less than 5 in each case) and then the team will continue on and make a further 250 odd phone calls to all who were in contact with the patient and will ask them to self isolate. In addition those in contact with the covid positive person will be tested twice.
This is how Covid 19 will be beaten in Ireland.
And even though today was a bad day for me, I am hopeful.
