Posted: Sat Mar 28, 2020 10:00am
Covid-19 Ireland - From midnight last night (Friday) and for the next two weeks:-
Almost whole population asked to stay at home.
Public Transport confined to essential service workers e.g. healthcare etc
If necessary, exercise within 2 Kms of home.
Maintain 2 metre distance between people.
Those over 70 are be "cocooned."
People can shop for essentials.
The Taoiseach called for above to happen voluntarily, but if necessary the police may enforce measures. He refrained from using the word "Lockdown" as it has different meaning in different countries. He stressed the need to wash your hands on leaving the household and re washing of hands on entry to supermarkets and wash again on leaving the shop and wash once more on re-entering your house.
The virus is much more contagious than originally thought. A "take it for the team" mentality is being favoured. Most of the population had already been using the measures. The good news is figures for hospitalisation are much less than those predicted.
The situation will be reviewed and he didn't discount longer action. Somebody earlier informed me that some of my posts are "parochial" - I prefer to use worlds like "sense of community."
We live in times that are soon to be more difficult. If we lose our sense of community we might as well throw in the towel now.