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

The HorsesMouth wrote: »

I have supported quickening up of lifting restrictions from the start. But I have to wonder...is the opening up of lockdown going to be even more depressing than lockdown itself?
Plastic barriers between people, masks, plastic visors, don't spend longer than an hour in someones house, sit 2 metres away, no physical contact, queuing outside every shop, no browsing, still no health services back, I could go on. It's all so...sterile.

I just don't know...am I being too pessimistic. Everyone is getting excited about this but I feel it's going to fall flat on its face in a few weeks. Not in terms of the virus itself but I think people are going to get very fed up of all these restrictions in daily life very quickly.
I saw a piece on the news there where a shoe shop has a plastic barrier between the shop staff and the child trying on the shoes. She also had a mask, gloves and a plastic visor across her face and I just thought it was so so depressing and over the top.
Again...I want these restrictions lifted, I've always supported it. But until social distancing is lifted..I think we are going be living in a depressing world.

That sounds over the top all right. Surely, keeping a distance and letting the parent fit the shoe would be more sensible. It does worry me that some businesses/organisations are over reacting. Where I work, we can work from home no problem, and management want us to collect equipment from the office to use at home, but local facilities won't allow it. It's ridiculous.

The HorsesMouth wrote: »

I have supported quickening up of lifting restrictions from the start. But I have to wonder...is the opening up of lockdown going to be even more depressing than lockdown itself?
Plastic barriers between people, masks, plastic visors, don't spend longer than an hour in someones house, sit 2 metres away, no physical contact, queuing outside every shop, no browsing, still no health services back, I could go on. It's all so...sterile.

I just don't know...am I being too pessimistic. Everyone is getting excited about this but I feel it's going to fall flat on its face in a few weeks. Not in terms of the virus itself but I think people are going to get very fed up of all these restrictions in daily life very quickly.
I saw a piece on the news there where a shoe shop has a plastic barrier between the shop staff and the child trying on the shoes. She also had a mask, gloves and a plastic visor across her face and I just thought it was so so depressing and over the top.
Again...I want these restrictions lifted, I've always supported it. But until social distancing is lifted..I think we are going be living in a depressing world.

Personally, I think it'll be a bit sh*t and like what you describe for a couple of weeks after the big restart - same with pubs and restaurants etc. Not particularly enjoyable.
But I do believe, quite quickly, all of that will go by the wayside.
Nobody will want to be the first to do it, too early, to start basically ignoring all of the bananas rules and recommendations that'll be in place, but after the initial period when TV reports and social media invigilators have got over reporting any minor discrepancies everything will go back to exactly how it was.
It'll happen even quicker outside of the big cities.

The only reason, imo, that everywhere won't just open back as they were before day 1 is because they don't want the negative publicity from Twitter and Facebook if they did. Had all this happened in the 90's no business would inflict it on themselves.

I'll be avoiding most thinks for the first couple of weeks but I am confident it'll all be what we're used to a lot quicker than people think. August bank holiday (assuming the July 20th date stays) I think will look like any other.

Liam Unimportant Sweeper wrote: »

have a wedding end of september but haven't seen much mentioned anywhere about restrictions around them. Assume its unlikely to go ahead 150+ attending?

You should be grand. We've seen 2 huge gatherings the past 2 weekends with thousands attending each time and the government are hunky dory with them.

Now please remember from tomorrow when phase 2 kicks in and you visit someones house in the 20km zone Mr Conkey says no to a kissin’ an a huggin’ or handshakes ;-)

Micky 32 wrote: »

I’m no ageist or care how old Harris is but i find it quite interesting that one of the posters who put a like on your post displayed ageism towards another poster earlier on in the thread.

Very good. I liked the first part of his post. The second part didn't bother me so much. Nice to see you are checking up on me.

Micky 32 wrote: »

I’m sure you did like the first part of the post but i guess we’ll never know, anyhow what makes you think it was directed at you and why would it have been?

If it wasn't, feel free to tell me.

Micky 32 wrote: »

Good answer to avoid the question as to why you think i was referring to you.

Like I said, if it wasn't aimed at me, feel free to let me know. Otherwise, let it go.

Micky 32 wrote: »

I asked you first as why you think i was referring to you. If you don’t answer i’d suggest you let it go. But i think we know you won’t answer that one.

Nope. You're trying to start. I'm stopping it. Good night.

gral6 wrote: »

Are we there yet? Are the numbers where we want them to be? Are misteers Harris and Holohan happy enough?

Not too sure, cancer screenings still on hold for some bizarre reason, probably because some action required from the public service here as opposed to shops.

NIMAN wrote: »

Watched the piece on the news last night about shops preparations to reopen.

I always hated shopping but if thats what it'll be like, I'll be ordering online.

There was an assistant helping a child try on shoes. She was like a mummy, only her eyes showing. Tight mask and a guard like she was about to strim the garden. And the child was behind a perspex screen as well. You could have let a bomb off on the other side and she would probably have survived.

And then any item of clothes tried on has to be put in a room for 24hrs and steam cleaned.

It's all a bit OCD if you ask me.

I feel for the small retailers. The cost of this will cripple many.

I admire their courage but they cannot turn a profit in the current circumstances

They are flogging a dead horse

So its now time to start complaining that places are opening after complaining about them being closed :pac:

Gotta love this thread.

tigger123 wrote: »

Just read the lead story on the IT website.

What is the logic on insisting that pubs serve a substantial meal? Surely table service should be enough...?

How does serving a substantial meal help to stop the spread of the virus?

Its basically for the first 3 weeks run as a restaurant with food, in July then everywhere can reopen food or not.

But I agree don't see what changes in 3 week's regarding food or no food

faceman wrote: »

A 2 course meal as well. Hilarious.

If that's the case that you have to order a starter and mains just to get served in a pub the a couple of pints could end up costing someone around €35, that will put the majority of people off returning to the pub until all these crazy rules are dropped..
Can pubs afford to stay open for a couple of months paying all their bills when they can't serve or get enough customers to even cover the costs of that?

gmisk wrote: »

My other half was out walking the dog at 7am this morning huge queues at bus stops...and he saw bus whizzing by as obviously only allowed very small numbers.
Delighted to still be working from home...

Used the bus myself this morning, I'm one of the first stops so was fine but if your not in the first few stops forget about it, we were flying past stops with plenty of people at them. Public transport is a mess this morning by all accounts.