According to an old English poem,New Year’s Day is but an inch wideBut Twelfth Night boasts a cock’s stride;So the days will lengthen. But days from Christmas, this new light that comes after the solstice bears a weight of expectation like never before. As if we could all go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different. Chief medical officer Dr Tony Holohan said: “Our current disease trends are gravely concerning. Tougher measures are inevitable somewhere between St Stephen’s Day and the New Year.

Source: Irish Independent December 22, 2020 02:26 UTC