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 very strict guidelines.  The main bit of concern would continue to be younger people and their inability to listen to the advice given to them. That being said, on the 8th of June we will be moving into Phase 2 of the reopening society. With it happening questions need to be asked, do we just all go back to the way we would commute or would we all be better off if more remote working options are made available by employers in the future . And experts are continuing to warn us that even though we all may be a bit restless at the moment after two months at home, we must still tow the line and adhere to the framework put forward by the government.

It was the first bit in a while that people were in St Peter's Square for the first time since the pandemic started.
It was also announced that online attendance to mass services rose since lockdown happened. The. Pope himself has found himself becoming an icon of the coronavirus pandemic. From images of him walking down an empty St Peter's Square at the height of the crisis to being there for people when they needed solace as being always there.

Going back to something that I mentioned before in regards to climate change, there is a general concensus now that there is an urgent need to look at the way towns and cities are used and do we go back to the polluted cities of the past and ignore the evidence in front of eyes. Local autorities must look at this and implement ways to decrease pollution for all of us. 

Of course there were some that fobbed off this article as being just more of a conspiracy of the Church supporting climate change and the whole thing being linked to the church somehow. Whereas the more intelligent people who don't subscribe would be in agreement with church leaders . Because at the end of the day, the climate change issue transcends the issue of whether people are of religion or not and rather it is more of an issue for every human to deal with as citizens of Earth.
We are all in this together.

Anyways
Until again, stay safe everyone.