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    Honestly I have never seen a black or Asian or even foreign policeman or woman here in Dublin. Loads of doctors and nurses. They might exist and I just might not have seen them. Even on TV. You see the police a lot. They are all white. Maybe in a few years we will get a variation in Ireland. Might be something I will have to look in to.
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    Interesting one making the news today. We were all told to avoid going to the North of Ireland yesterday. They have the highest numbers going. Today we hear of group tours were people from the North want to come down here to shop. Would be talking bus loads of them. Did comment on this on a radio show FB page. Our health experts are telling us not to head North. But they are allowing people from the North to come down here? How bloody dumb is that? Makes no sense at all. All shops are closed in the North. That is how bad it is up there. They were doing great when the rest of us were doing bad. Much like Scotland had been doing great in the UK when this all began. Now it seems to be catching up with them.
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    The lockdown ends next Tuesday. Restrictions still in place though. That is, assuming those restrictions pass in parliment. Boris's party is not happy with him, quite a few are supposedly going to vote against him. Enough for him to be worried. Not sure what happens if it doesn't pass. Theres no restrictions I guess? Who knows.

    Government is being sued for awarding multimillion PPE contracts to a pest control company, a sweet wholesaler, an investment fund located in one of the UKs many offshore tax havens, and a Spanish Businessman who plays Golf with a politician. Shockingly, they failed to deliver. Wonder what will come of that.

    We developed one of the vaccines here and for some reason, the government wanted to know if the UKs flag could be put on the vial, seemingly, because it would stop the rise of support for Scottish independence, and NI reunification. Like, WTF? Really?! That's the solution to it all? Madness.
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    Wet pubs are not allowed to open here. Other pubs, that serve food must have a chef in the pub. Such pubs had been doing things in a different way. Not needing a chef. So that about screws that one up too. Other places will slowly open over the next few weeks. But I can safely say we will be locked down again before we know it. Do they expect something different to happen this time around? Even on level 5 lockdown the numbers were high. People are still dying. Think it is just a Christmas opening. Then back to as you were. As the numbers will rise again.
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    So I'm in Tier 2 - High risk area. I think that means pubs can open if they serve food? And you can only drink alchohol if you're eating food? Seen someone say somewhere you're expected to leave once you've finished your food. You don't sit around with an empty plate. Not many Tier 1s, the medium risk, but they can serve without food, but they have to shut by a certain time.

    Law at the moment is that you can open to serve takeaway. Cafes are open here like that, just selling takeaway coffee and stuff. Just not to sit in. Doesn't feel so much like a lockdown here than just stuff shutting.
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    You can ask your Irish boyfriend about the Late, Late toy show every Christmas. Big here in Ireland. This year? They had kids telling people to take the vaccine when it comes out. Is causing a bit of a stir. Kids are meant to talk about toys. Not bloody vaccines. You could tell it was well planned / staged.

    May as well write other virus news. We have the government and the health experts saying different things. I think the government accepts we will see more cases, but they are allowing Christmas to be as close to normal as possible. The health experts still want to keep us in a higher level of lockdown. I can see why simply by looking at the numbers. When they locked us down a few months back the numbers were the same as they are now. In their eyes nothing has changed. They will lay the blame on the government. Numbers will rise. No doubt about that.

    Another thing on the rise here is fights. People attacking others. With hammers and hatchets. Over the past few months we have had more of these attacks than over the past few years. Are people getting bored? Is like the wild west.
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    Lockdown ended at 12 last night and the queues began to form at 4am for the shops. How crazy are people? Was only certain shops. Give it about 2 weeks and the numbers will be right back up high again. Bad as they are now. Wait till around Christmas and it will be worse. Lifting of the lockdown was to allow for Christmas. I think they are 2 weeks too early. In other words in 3 weeks we will start to see the results of the lifting of lockdown. How many people will be sick by Christmas? Have all my Christmas shopping done and I didn't have to leave the house to do it.
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    Primark/Penneys? TK Maxx? Those the ones with queues? Had same here. They've said here that shops could open 24hours. Don't know many people that would go Christmas shopping at 3am though.

    Restrictions lifted here today - a bit. But I'm expecting another lockdown January after Christmas.
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    last night was the first night of 24 hour shopping and the queues were miles long. That was Primark ( as it is called in the UK ) Only so much these people can buy. Another lockdown will happen. We will see the first results of this one been lifted by Christmas. Which is why I think they lifted it too soon. I did say in an earlier post they were split on the lifting of the lockdown. Still a good few deaths every day here. Lot of new cases. If they think lifting will help bring those numbers down they are delluding themselves. More just to let people have a Christmas. That might even fail for a lot of them.

    This picture was from last night. The queue is going straight. But up the top it turns to the right. Then goes back out onto the street. That puts you more or less at the back of the shop. So from there the queue goes around the side of the shop. Then you reach the front line of the building. i think I would rather sleep.

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    Holy ****!! Why don’t they just order things online??

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    What you see in that picture is an underground car park. That was not even the end of the line. Is crazy. I would not waste my time.
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    The UK are heading into vaccine mode soon. I am wondering is it too early? As in would they know enough about the vaccine at this early stage? Might be the best of two evils. Save lives and take a risk. Boris wanting to be the first person in the world to allow a vaccine. Again is it another one of his dumb moves? We are holding off for now. It has to be approved for use. Over here they want to know more about it. So we might simply watch what happens in the UK for a month or two. They are using a two part vaccine. Get the jabs 3 weeks apart. I am sure the world will be watching on. Waiting to see the results. Boris is putting the people of the UK first. I am not saying first as in thinking about them. I mean first in the world to try out this new vaccine. Was only a week or so ago the makers said it was not fully ready. They thought they could improve on it. Make it better. Be curious to see how many come forward to take it. Not even sure if Ireland has put in for use of the same vaccine. I know it made by the Viagra makers, They have a factor here in Ireland too. We are hearing about a vaccine. But from who. Let us all wait and see what happens in the UK.
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    I am in the midst of a three week curfew. 10pm to 5am nightly. All pubs and restaurants are to close, with only drive through available. Grocery stores and gas stations (limiting number of people in the store) can remain open. Grocery stores still close only at 11pm.....during the height, it was 9pm!

    I was talking about this with my Romanian colleagues. They called this a "partial lockdown".

    Well, the Governor of Ohio may be impeached over this just like the Governor of Michigan to my north. The Governor of Califormia may have to worst of it - a RECALL where the people petition to put a vote out to replace the Governor in the middle of notime!

    I am totally irate, livid, and aghast that for the second time this year, I am afraid I will get fined for trying to get my fitness on at 10pm. In March, the fear caused me to stop running for five weeks - I still have not recovered! I run my streets at night normally -> 12am to 1am when the roads are desolate and only the police stalk me. They know who I am so it's all good. I ran right in front of the police station at 10:20pm and they didn't do anything to me. I don't want The Corona; I just want to get back in shape!

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    Yeah, the speed of approving it worries me. They have rushed it I think. They're desperate to get the economy going again, we've had the biggest economic hit in the G7. Fairly sure that me in my 20s with no other health conditions will somewhere near the bottom of the list anyway.

    Someone came up with a vaccine passport idea the other day, where if you can have the vaccine you can go back to your normal life. Thankfully shot down by Gov quite fast. Such bad optics if they did that. All the older people who are higher priority because they're higher risk and who we're staying and putting our lives on hold for - because let's be honest here, whilst I'm not so fussed doing this, the younger and healthier ones are hugely low risk and generally just feel a bit crappy when they get it, rather than having to be ventilated - get to go out and have fun in restaurants and theatres whilst the rest of us remain stuck indoors for the next few months it takes to get the vaccines out.

    Edit - Yup, been told being vaccinated wont exempt you from self-isolating, or the other restrictions. Whether thatd because we dont know if it works, or done in the interest of fairness, who knows.
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    Another point is Boris sort of flaunting the idea that they are now out of the EU. A vaccine within the EU would have to be approved by some sort of standards board made up of top EU experts. None of whom have approved this vaccine as of yet. Once approved by them, it has to be approved by experts in each country. The fact the UK are going ahead with it without the normal approval from the EU seems like a real Boris stunt. I think the NHS are top of the list. I am not saying they don't deserve it. But that is like saying we know there will be loads more cases, so give them the vaccine to be able to look after the sick people when they catch the virus. It is certainly not cutting out the virus and the spread of it. Next in line are the elderly. If there is any left after that it will be those with high health risks. From there you move down the age groups. 70's and then 60's. This is were herd immunity will finally be allowed come into play. By protecting so many, you hope the rest are fine based on their immune systems. Herd immunity works best along side a vaccine. It is been debated on the radio as I write this post. What should Ireland do is the debate. They are all saying to wait. We can see what happens in the UK. Or another vaccine that is better might come along. There are 3 at the moment been tested. Looks like 1 of those will be tested on a large scale in the UK. That is the key point here. It was only still been tested. From testing with some results that they said they could approve on, to be put in use in a matter of weeks. Boris wanting to win a race?
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