I know of a clothes shop thatās open because it sells school uniforms so is deemed essential.
I bet the Healy Raeās shops are all open because they are essential and if they werenāt they are now. 
Kids shoes shop are allowed open so kids feet can be measured. But kids clothes shops canāt stay open 
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Is there any reason or exemptions that a gym can stay open under the current restrictions?
If they started selling household cleaning products or animal feed
This isnāt the easiest post to write but there are two side effects of these lockdowns that have been on my mind the most. So I reached out to a couple of people to get some info in the areas of suicide and cancer because I believe mental health and late Cancer diagnoses will be two of the biggest side effects of these lockdowns.
The raw unpublished numbers Iāve seen around suicides in Ireland in 2020 is trending towards 550. The published figure for 2019 was 421.
[For some reason unknown to me the raw unpublished figures are significantly higher than the published ones for both 2019 and 2018. Curious]
So a current rise in suicide numbers isnāt fully evident to me, however, Iām sad to say I do think the real danger could be yet to come.
Covid lockdown in spring coming into summer and Covid lockdown in late autumn coming into winter are two entirely different things. Days getting longer in March/April wasnāt a terrible spot for a lockdown to land. Compare that to the situation after the clocks change this weekend and days are dark far more than not.
My biggest concern in the area of mental health with regard to this lockdown is the guy who lost his livelihood. Facing into winter, canāt afford Christmas. Feels like a failure, has a disastrous Christmas, hits January, SAD kicks in and he sees nothing positive to come. And thereās going to be tens of thousands of them in variations of that position scattered across towns and villages throughout the country on a scale that dwarfs previous years. Iād really stress to any of ye that if ye have people important to you who are trending like Iām describing above, you have to be overactive in the next 3 months to make sure they can hold it all together.
Iām fortunate to not have had this impact my livelihood but itās still had an impact on my mental health to some extent. I donāt hugely enjoy working from home 5 days a week but there are obviously worse outcomes. Iāve seen similar impacts on friends and family. Itās not easy right now, but the people who are hurting most will desperately need support in the coming months.
And similarly with anyone who has the slightest hint of something untoward in the area of cancer. You just canāt wait. Drag them, kicking and screaming, to a doctor. Itās too early to know what the impact will be but from the person I talked to in the area of cancer services in Ireland theyāre deeply concerned with people arriving later than usual to be diagnosed. The raw numbers around cancer diagnoses would possibly suggest that numbers are marginally down but the late diagnoses are the real disaster theyāre seeing. Waiting just a few weeks can turn a treatable illness into a terminal illness and diagnoses are later than normal this year so far.
If thereās 2 things to take from this.
- Check in on those who are having it rough. If you are the one in the rough spot reach out for help.
- The rules of cancer detection have not changed. Earlier the better. Do not wait. Do not allow anyone to wait.
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Fantastic post
TomƔs Ryan saying today is one of the greatest days in Irelands History
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Just switched over from Celtic to see this absolute freak advocating a 10-12 week lockdown.
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John Lee is the truth.
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This English lad is calling out him and all epidemiologists as spoofers in fairness
Token response to everything ābut Australiaā ābut Zew Zealandā. Utter spoofer
āBut South Koreaā now too
We need a moderator like Miriam on here.
4 dead babies because the headcases want to keep internal borders shut.
They are going around with drones in Melbourne to see if people are having back garden parties for AFL Grand Final day. Thereās a handful of cases a day. It isnāt looking for cases, it is looking for rule breakers. Parts of the world and some people have gone insane.
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John Lee knows the score
Just to be fair, he said it was one of the most hopeful days in months
Whether or not you agree (and I wouldnāt) itās very very different from what you said
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Tomas Ryan is the creepiest looking person Iāve ever seen. Heād make your skin crawl
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Iād imagine the raw figures become downgraded based on coroner Court verdicts where they are slow to record suicide.
Appears to have been one major schermozzle, the scummy fascists came out the worst of it by all accounts
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