Ireland and Covid meet in the pub

C19: How's it going anyway
Irl: fuckin abysmal, HSE is such a shitshow
C19: how so?
Irl: can you believe it, they asked me to do my own contact tracing
C19: but that's easy, you're isolating
Irl: Yeah well I was supposed to, but I'm feeling

grand so I'm going out tonight
C19: wha-
Irl: I don't have covid like so it's grand
C19: how do you know that?
Irl: I went for a test today
C19: and it's negative?
Irl: Well....
C19: what?
Irl: I haven't got my results yet
C19:
Irl: I'm grand! Stop looking at me funny

C19: Ok. Well at least you haven't been out and about
Irl:
C19:... What?
Irl: Yeah I went to a party in Donegal last night
C19: why?
Irl: Cos of my mental health...
C19: Jesus
Irl:... and I stopped off in Derry on the way for a pub crawl for Halloween
C19: (sigh)

Irl: but yeah can you believe they don't have enough contact tracers
C19: isn't that because people have been out spreading? I don't do this by myself like
Irl: Yeah but it's their fault
C19: just like the nursing homes
Irl: Yeah wtf - the HSE has to rescue them

C19: the private businesses?
Irl: what?
C19: they're not part of the health service so they're not under the HSE
Irl: Well they still are to blame and they need to put staff in there
C19: even though they are companies with their own responsibilities to the patients?

Irl: Yeah of course. The HSE is to blame for everything. Or NPHET. They're dictating to us
C19: they're telling you how to stop me
Irl: I'm not doing it cos it's not my fault it's this bad
C19: you're in a pub talking to me with no mask on
Irl:
C19:
Irl: it's not my fault