Joyce Fegan: Maybe conscious caution is our new normal

How we can go from 20 months of living under restrictions and high alert, where our nervous systems got strung out in a state of hypervigilance, to just being 'back to normal'?

Is drinking at home now more normal than going to the pub?

THIS is where we’ll see how Covid changed our lives. Supposedly, it’s more or less all over. We can now go back to business as usual.

As of Friday, licensing hours in pubs and clubs have gone back to their pre-pandemic normal. There are no longer any capacity limits at weddings and religious services. The same goes for sports stadiums and outdoor events.