Bank holiday will test whether we can  suppress the virus ourselves

A passenger wearing a face mask on a Bus Éireann bus in Cork city.Picture: Denis Minihane

The greatest lesson from the inflated statistics for confirmed cases of coronavirus here in the past two days is that all of our worrying over the rights and wrongs of the Green List have distracted from a far greater problem — that we’ve started to take our eye off the ball in the community.

When it comes to Covid-19, things can get very bad very quickly. This is something Ireland as a population has experienced very recently, so we can’t say we weren’t warned.