The Bidens, lockdowns and life hacks: IrishExaminer.com's most-read stories of 2021

(Left to right) Jill Biden, Joe Biden and nurse practitioner Tabe Mase giving the then President-elect his Covid-19 vaccination back in February. A piece about the Bidens from our Lifestyle section was our most read article online this year. File photo: Joshua Roberts/Getty Images

It’s the end of the year and we’re hearing about a new variant that’s more transmissible than the one before it and will necessitate much harsher restrictions than what we’d been expecting.

This sentence could be equally true for both 2020 and 2021.