Mondays get bad press but are they really a mini-pandemic?

A Different View with Dave O’Connell

In one way, you can blame Bob Geldof – although he’d pass that ball to Brenda Ann Spencer – because, while Monday might never have enjoyed Friday’s high profile as the happiest day of the week, there was a time when we didn’t actually hate them.

But then Brenda Ann went and killed nine people in the playground of the Grover Cleveland Elementary School in San Diego, California, on 29 January 1979 – and explained her actions in a sentence.

“I don’t like Mondays,” she said. “This livens up the day.”

Geldof, in turn, picked up a telex report of the story as he sat in a radio station waiting to be interviewed (it sounds so old to even refer to a form of communication that was then cutting edge) and he turned it into a hit song that went straight to the top of the UK charts.

He wasn’t the only one to target the first day of the week for chart success; the Carpenters admitted that rainy days and Mondays always got them down too.

But since Geldof (and as it transpired, Johnny Fingers, who sued for a writing credit and won his case 40 years later) wrote about it, Mondays have had all the bad press – Black Monday, Blue Monday…and now a scientific comparison which concluded in a sentence that the Covid pandemic was ‘four times more miserable than a Monday’.

Which is a terrible indictment of Mondays, because Covid was/is a deadly virus that left families grieving and isolated – Monday is just the day before Tuesday, which is in fairess isn’t much to write home about either.

For more, read this week’s Connacht Tribune.

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