Covid buys prove there’s no vaccination for rash decisions

A Different View with Dave O’Connell

There are days that those of us who didn’t bake banana bread or learn a musical instrument or write a best-selling book during lockdown have to hang our heads in shame at the awful truth that we allowed everyday life to hold us back from the scale of our ambitions.

Alternatively, you could take the view that those who managed to turn the worst global health crisis since the Black Death into a positive thing to boost their chakra would really make you – if you can excuse the phrase in the face of a pandemic – sick.

Or is that just jealousy when you find that there are people whose natural response to negatives is to try and find the positive? And if it is, fair play to them for managing that in the face of a virus that effectively shut down the planet.

Those of us who just got on with living – learning nothing new, other than the fact that washing your hands all the time makes your skin fall off – might have been alright if it wasn’t for the power and reach of social media.

Because it seemed that everyone who saw their banana bread rise from the baking tray felt obliged to post a picture on Instagram or Facebook – if they got a chance, they’d have put it in the window of a local shop – as though they were the first person to ever pull off this extraordinary feat.

Even going for a walk wasn’t a safe space, because there was an ever-present risk of bumping into someone taking a selfie of themselves to tell the world that they were still able to successfully put one foot in front of the other.

Sales of banana bread globally would suggest that, not alone did people not really bake it in great amounts prior to Covid, but not that many ate it either. And yet suddenly it’s up there as an astonishing, self-proclaimed achievement, second only to those people who managed to make their own toilet paper out of old periodicals at the height of the bog roll crisis.

For more, read this week’s Connacht Tribune.

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