God bless you Hessian-drenched confession castrels. Welcome to the Blaine by

Podcast. How are you? Are you having a charming day? A charming morning? If you're a

brand-new listener, maybe go back to one of the earlier podcasts. There's lots,

lots of earlier podcasts. And Spotify, I have a playlist of my favorite

Blaine by Podcasts. Get a listen to those to acquaint yourself with the the

flavor of this environment. To the regular listeners, what's the crack? We are

still in the midst of a global pandemic. I don't think it's gone anymore for a

long time. It's great. I'm dealing with it. I'm dealing with it. I it's what is

it now? It's only six months. Six months now of dealing with a global pandemic. So it's the

goblin of strange and uncertain times. But I think we're no longer in the

strange and uncertain times. It's now feeling normal. I'm seeing more and more

people wearing masks in the shops from August 10th. I believe in Ireland

masks and shops are now mandatory. And we're just getting used to it. We're

getting used to it. And the phrase they use is the new normal. It's become a

normal. I can't really I can't really remember what it was like before. Coronavirus.

I did a podcast a few weeks back where I analyzed the our coronavirus

response within the stages of grief. Because it is grief. Grief is when you

when you lose something and it's unexpected unexpected. And I do think we're in

the stage of acceptance now. I think we're accepting the big one to accept is

that it looks like coronavirus is probably a couple of years. Probably a couple

of years of it being a thing. Even if vaccinations were to happen next month,

it still takes like a year for that to be effective on a huge population. But

...