Suzanne Harrington: By 2024, we will all be post-viral flappers, doing the 21st century of the Charleston

It won’t be long before random words like banana bread, cocooning, and 5km trigger flashbacks and PTSD

Yay! Three more days and 2020 will formally be history. Goodbye then to a year the world got punched in the throat by a particle one 10,000th of a millimetre in diameter, a particle that showed our inability to do exponential growth maths — how one tiny thing can double and double and double — and how the utter incompetence of so many so-called leaders led to so many things being so much worse than was necessary.

Not Ireland. Ireland went ninja on the particle so that while relatively few people died compared with those countries led by donkeys, many cracked up from the prevention processes. Mental health suffered to safeguard physical health.