Lockdown heroes were the bravest of the brave

SO this week is the start of us all getting our lives back.

- JOHN KIERANS

We can see the light at the end of the tunnel but we just don’t know how long exactly before we are free from this dreaded Covid-19 virus.

It is refreshing and inspirational to speak to various elderly people I know after they got their vaccines.

The smiles, the excitement, the relief, the feeling of rebirth.

A year cocooning at home, hiding from this pandemic, trying to stay alive has been a monumental struggle for many of them.

The pain of not being able to see your family or hugging your grandkids was torturous.

It was even harder still for those living alone. How they didn’t go mad talking to themselves all day from the isolation and the loneliness, we will never know.

They are the bravest of the brave, and each and every one of them a hero.