Every week it's something new for people to direct their anger at. Politicians, foreigners, tourists, meat plants, teenagers.

One thing that rarely gets any blame at all is Covid19.

There's 19.4 million confirmed cases globally and that wouldn't happen if any of this was easy.

There's a creeping God-complex to it all, the idea that humanity should be able to easily defeat a highly transmissible virus.

The examples used to bolster that incredibly weak argument tend to be either authoritarian countries (China) or located in the middle of nowhere (NZ).

The obvious counterpoint is we are approaching 20 million cases.

147 countries have more than 1,000 cases.
100 countries have more than 5,000 cases.

Influenza, Norovirus, Coronavius kill so many people because these viruses are strong, resilient, resourceful and relentless.

There's only been 19 cases of community transmission in 5 days, which means the bulk of the current numbers are localized outbreaks.

It also means wider society are still playing their part, because if this was March again, there would be thousands of cases spilling out of them.

It also highlights test/trace/isolate in Ireland is working.

We're finding these outbreaks and containing them before they spill over into the community.

That's a reassuring thing - to know that the process is functional and doing what it's supposed to do to keep us safe.

That DP should be abolished and meat workers paid more money is obvious.

But it's the temperature and air ventilation in these facilities that allows Covid to thrive there across the world - and will remain the case even if wages and living conditions improved overnight.

The German epidemiologist Prof. Timo Ulrichs was asked by the BBC has anything good come from the pandemic and he replied:

"It's enabled society to detect the bad conditions under which people have to work for us having our cheap meat"

Nobody cared that almost 1,000 people died of Flu in nursing homes in 2018.

Nobody cared when there were Flu outbreaks in meat plants in Europe, leading to loss of life.

People care now - and what we choose to do about it will matter, if society is to be reshaped by a pandemic.

Things are not as bad as they feel.

There's hardly anybody in hospital and we're down to 5 in ICU.

The ICU survival rate for the pandemic in Ireland is 80%+, thanks to amazing people working in our hospitals, so touch wood we get all 5 out of there alive.

Outside of the outbreaks, we've got a very low level of infection in Ireland - and we've got talented people such as Dr. Glynn on top of those situations, so that they don't escalate further.

On top of that, we have a sound society doing their part.

Things are going well.

Today is Day 160 of Pandemic in Ireland.

You would think reading social media we are in the pits of despair.

2,500+ people died in Mexico alone - this week.

There are so many countries suffering horrendously and I'm thankful we are not one of them.