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Letters from the Irish Lockdown- Letter Five

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Hello again world from Ireland. Well thing are moving forward in relation to the reopening of businesses and society not just here but around the world. With the gradual reopening come the questions about whether we are being too cautious , whether face masks should be worn or not and in what context should they be worn . Later on in the week also more guidelines were issued on the wearing of masks. . Also the question of what happened to the 1,000 people who were stranded abroad when this all started resurfaced . One of the questions though that I would be asking is, what will be the effects of opening up the country will be. Yes, at the moment, infection rates are low but what if that were to change . That is the fear. We shall see as it was in fact announced on Friday that the government were going to fast track the reopening of the country . Instead of the five stages to reopening the country, that has now being reduced to four.  However there had been a warning from a Briti

Letters from the Irish Lockdown- Letter Four

Hello again world from Ireland. Well the start of the week saw a rather amazing thing happen for the first ime in two months, there was no deaths reported. Again though, as mentioned in my previous post, there have been calls to reduce the 2m rule for social distancing . During the week however I spotted a well known beauty spot populated by revellers and people enjoying the weather with no enforcement of the 2m rule. I would honestly say I would not be surprised if you did see a surge in cases in the area and all over Ireland in the next few days/weeks.   There are also calls to open some hair salons as a lot of people miss the ability to visit them for appointments. Even in the last couple of days coming up to the bank holiday , major beauty spots nearby to me ended up being closed to prevent large gatherings there. This is after a week earlier, the local market had to be closed earlier owing to people not adhering to social distancing guidelines and reopened the next week under