If Ireland ever gets - and lets pray it doesn't - to a situation where hundreds are dying daily, there'll be Irish journalists on here tweeting that in fairness it took us a lot longer to hit those numbers than England did. https://twitter.com/ciarakellydoc/status/1249286192601993216

Ireland's death rate per capita from Covid is 10th worst in the world. We could be second worst in the world, and it still wouldn't matter a jot to some people as long as England was worse off than us.