Relaxation of Restrictions, Part IV - **Read OP for Mod Warnings**

MOR316

Who was that minister??

****ing hell, her voice!!!

Like the brown noise, making me **** myself

Ferris_Bueller

Jaysus that is the most positive news in ages, delighted to hear all of that. It will actually feel strange being able to do some of these things again! Hopefully all goes well and cases stay low.

ibarelycare

"All retail units may open"...does this include hairdressers etc??

_Kaiser_

ibarelycare wrote: »

"All retail units may open"...does this include hairdressers etc??

Nope. He just said phase 4 for that

FrStone

The barbers are still not reopening until 20th of July...

cian68

My hot lockdown take is public libraries are essential and should have remained open the whole time

TheDoctor

Personal service shops like hairdressers still in phase 4 (20 July).

jojofizzio

TheDoctor wrote: »

29th of June is basically the end of the lockdown.

Cant wait.

Hairdressers still not til July 20th:eek::rolleyes:

leahyl

cian68 wrote: »

My hot lockdown take is public libraries are essential and should have remained open the whole time

Yeah you'd imagine that libraries would be pretty low risk....they could have had just no in-library reading or whatever, just open for taking out books etc.

Blaze420

cian68 wrote: »

My hot lockdown take is public libraries are essential and should have remained open the whole time

Absolutely not - a load of books being thumbed with dirty hands and passed back to the library then on to others?

touts

FrStone wrote: »

The barbers are still not reopening until 20th of July...

Leo's logic for that is because you spend over 30 minutes almost face to face with another person. Clearly he doesn't use my barber. 10min max and 5 min if there is a big queue.

_Kaiser_

cian68 wrote: »

My hot lockdown take is public libraries are essential and should have remained open the whole time

That would encourage people to congregate. Same reason they want shopping centres to remove things like seating areas, food courts etc

road_high

FrStone wrote: »

The barbers are still not reopening until 20th of July...

Good thing there’s a roaring blackmarket going now so!

Lundstram

Lundstram wrote: »

Indeed, he suffers from Crohn's disease which is accelerated by stress. Very easy for people to take personal pot shots at him from behind a keyboard. Cowards.

Apologies, wasn't aware I couldn't dislike Harris because he has Crohn's.

iamwhoiam

I feel like a child in a toy shop today
Well done to us all , the community made this possible and thank you to all frontline staff and retail staff .

hmmm

cian68 wrote: »

My hot lockdown take is public libraries are essential and should have remained open the whole time

That was never an option. Anything indoors is a problem, it's where the virus mostly spreads. People talking indoors is a particular problem, and while libraries don't/shouldn't see that as a big problem, staff have to be protected also.

There was also the question about whether the virus spreads on surfaces, so exchanging books might not be a great idea (again would staff need to wear PPE?). We know more every day.

zzfh

I assume gyms will be July 20th?

is_that_so

hmmm wrote: »

That was never an option. Anything indoors is a problem, it's where the virus mostly spreads. People talking indoors is a particular problem, and while libraries don't/shouldn't see that as a big problem, staff have to be protected also.

There was also the question about whether the virus spreads on surfaces, so exchanging books might not be a great idea (again would staff need to wear PPE?). We know more every day.

People can spend a lot of time sitting in libraries as well.

Patser

Ginger n Lemon wrote: »

Lol lockdown merchants must be very upset.

Country is mostly opened 29 June, TOURISM WELCOME.

Lets welcome the tourists in all seriousness, they ll have more money than locals.

Unable to watch this, but anything mentioned about what this means regards 14 day quarantine coming in to country?

setanta1984

TheDoctor wrote: »

Personal service shops like hairdressers still in phase 4 (20 July).

I guess there had to be a disappointment included somewhere.

The positives from what the government have displayed today though is that there is now legitimate hope that they may move on that in the next few weeks.
It's pretty much nonsense when you see Europe have been able to have these for months by then, some decent lobbying from the industry should bring it forward.

is_that_so

Patser wrote: »

Unable to watch this, but anything mentioned about what this means regards 14 day quarantine coming in to country?

No, but that's up for review on June 18 anyway.

FrStone

touts wrote: »

Leo's logic for that is because you spend over 30 minutes almost face to face with another person. Clearly he doesn't use my barber. 10min max and 5 min if there is a big queue.

Same as myself in and out in less than 15 minutes - I usually have enough on than to be wasting any more time necessary on the job of getting the haircut.

_Kaiser_

Simon's attitude annoys me. His whole thing seems to be that they're giving us something we should be appreciative of, rather than the reality that they are simply removing restrictions to freedoms we already had.

Mitch Connor

setanta1984 wrote: »

I guess there had to be a disappointment included somewhere.

The positives from what the government have displayed today though is that there is now legitimate hope that they may move on that in the next few weeks.
It's pretty much nonsense when you see Europe have been able to have these for months by now, some decent lobbying from the industry should bring it forward.

For months? apart from Sweden where was open to that degree in March?

cian68

Blaze420 wrote: »

Absolutely not - a load of books being thumbed with dirty hands and passed back to the library then on to others?

I guess what I'm looking for is free access to the internet. I've been in there before while people are looking online for jobs and housing and it's their only option

gmisk

touts wrote: »

Leo's logic for that is because you spend over 30 minutes almost face to face with another person. Clearly he doesn't use my barber. 10min max and 5 min if there is a big queue.

Are you going to a barber or a sheep shearer?

TheDoctor

zzfh wrote: »

I assume gyms will be July 20th?

Yeah guess that would be personal services.

Well done to all who brought us to today. It hasn't been an easy 3 months for many of us, but today is a great day.

is_that_so

Info on hospitality regs to be published next week.

is_that_so

gmisk wrote: »

Are you going to a barber or a sheep shearer?

On July 20 you won't be able to find one or the other!