Irish Examiner View: Is your journey worth spreading the plague?

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As the pandemic ebbs and flows it would be unwise to pick one set of figures to shape a response. There are too many cultural variations involved to make comparisons as watertight as they must be to underpin a successful, agreed course of action. 

Yet some comparisons are so stark they cannot be ignored. The huge contrast in Covid-19 deaths between
Ireland and Norway, pretty comparable countries if not societies, is one such case.