Cianan Brennan: We may be changing our behaviour - but the virus isn't

Members of the public wearing face masks on Grafton Street in Dublin's City Centre.

As with all natural phenomena, the trends that have come with the coronavirus pandemic vary from the apparently simple to the more complex.

On the face of it, Covid-19 is a highly infectious disease which spiked alarmingly when introduced to the community in Ireland, only to be suppressed reasonably effectively when a full national lockdown was applied for two months.