Even Dalkey Damon won’t tempt me to Covid in city

WHAT is the greater sign of Covid induced boredom – a Hollywood star like Matt Damon reduced to calling a local radio station for amusement or Dublin City

Library’s request for donations to a new archive, imaginatively entitled Covid-19 Lockdown Collection? It appears the library wants to create a resource for posterity so that future generations can get an idea of what their antecedents endured in 2020.

That’s fine by me so long as it’s aimed squarely at those who come after us for I have absolutely zero interest in revisiting this tedious experience either in art, drama or in a library ever again.

Once this is over, I never want to see a face mask or a bottle of hand sanitiser as long as I live.

And while I take no pleasure in it, I predict that the breakout stars of Normal People who seem as famous now as Brangelina, may be in danger of being tainted forever by association with Covid-19.

For the steamy TV series has become as entwined with quarantine as home hair dye kits, tracksuit bottoms, box sets and bottles of plonk, all of which I shall happily donate to Dublin City Library when the time comes.

And I’ll throw Hilary Mantel’s latest opus, birdsong, supermoons and zoom sessions into the mix as well. And perspex glass, socially distant queues and yellow warning signs that suggest you’d stumbled into a nuclear reactor plant rather than the local post office.

Let future generations marvel at how these things defined our year of living monotonously. Let us get on with the business of living.