Irish Examiner view: Availability of vaccines is all-defining in our fight against Covid

It's not about being hypochondriacs but we need to avoid situations that endanger wellbeing or health

We all know people who, if not an irredeemable hypochondriac, will if allowed indulge that foible to the very edge of reason. We all know people who imagine that they are but one more sniffle away from that inevitable assignation at the pearly gates. 

Huge energy is wasted fighting imagined ailments. Unlike the farrier Felix Randal, finally laid low by four fatal disorders, they can imagine the caress of a draught as the arrival of something exotic and unknown, but certainly fatal.