The Dundalk and County Louth library is sending out books to elderly and vulnerable people quarantining at home and in nursing homes and for care services,, and the Defense Forces and Customs & Excise are helping to deliver them.
A wonderful video essay on quarantine, loneliness and the sea by Scout Tafoya.
‘When you read diaries of people who lived through the revolution in Russia, you find them looking on in disbelief as the vast, centuries-old empire of the Romanovs melted into nothing in a matter of months. Few then accepted that the world they knew had gone forever. Even so, they were haunted by the suspicion that it would not return. Many had a similar experience in continental Europe when the Great War destroyed what Stefan Zweig, in his elegiac memoir The World of Yesterday (1941), called “the world of security”.’
John Gray in Unherd, May 13, 2020
