Mick Clifford: Christmas is cancelled? Have some perspective 

The fraying of social solidarity, the partial loss of perspective is having a negative impact on tackling the virus, writes Michael Clifford

Philip Nolan and his Nphet colleagues are all but begging people to abide by the new norms of distancing, isolation, and hygiene — and it is all for our own benefit. Picture: Damien Storan

Christmas may not be coming. 

So went one line of this week’s pandemic narrative. Would the decorations survive an extra twelve months in storage?