🔴 #Level5 – From midnight Wednesday 21st October until December 1st 2020 🔴

🏡 Stay within a 5km limit of their home

💶 Pandemic Unemployment Payment of €350 a week for people with prior earnings of €400 or above

👶 Creches to stay open

🚸 Schools to stay open

💍 Weddings – Guests to remain at 25

🏗 Construction to continue

🚶‍♀️ Exercise within 5km of home

🏠 Meet with one other household – outside only if you are required as part of an extended social bubble

👜 Non essential retail to close

🍺 Pubs takeaway only

🥡 Restaurants takeaway only

💅 Salons to close

💇‍♂️ Hairdressers to close

🏋️ Gyms to close

🏊‍♀️ Swimming pools and other leisure facilities to close

👩‍💻 Third level to stay open (mostly online)

🧒 Playgrounds to remain open

🛒 Essential retail outlets, such as supermarkets, fuel forecourts and pharmacies, will remain open

🚷 No gatherings

🚌 Avoid public transport, which will be operating at 25% capacity. [School transport unaffected]

🏨 Hotels, guesthouses and B&Bs are only open to existing guests and for essential non-social and non-tourist purposes

💒 Religious services are online only. Places of worship remain open for private prayer.

🤼‍♀️ No matches or events should take place other than limited exceptions behind closed doors

⚽️ Non-contact outdoor training can take place in pods of 15 or less for school children only

You can only travel over 5km:

👩‍⚕️To / from work if you’re providing an essential service

🏨 To attend medical appointments

👵 To care for someone

🐑 For farming purposes

⛪ To visit a grave

⛪ To attend a wedding or funeral

🛒 If your nearest grocery shop is more than 5k away and you are getting supplies

👵 Extended Social Bubble

An extended household (or support bubble) for defined categories of individuals to support those at risk of social isolation and/or mental ill-health, these include older people living alone and those parenting alone. They make extend their social bubble to one other household.

Fuel prices dropped a record amount (now €1.12/litre)

Self-distancing measures on a rise.

Tape on the floors at food stores and others to help distance shoppers 2m (6ft) from each other.

Limited number of people inside stores, therefore lineups outside the store doors.

Non-essential stores and businesses mandated closed.

Parks, trails, entire cities locked up.

Entire sports seasons cancelled.

Concerts, tours, festivals, entertainment events – cancelled.

Weddings, family celebrations, holiday gatherings – cancelled.

Funerals limited to children/parents/spouses of deceased.

No other family or friends.

No masses, churches are closed.

Schools are all closed.

No gatherings permitted.

Don’t socialize with anyone outside of your home.

We are to distance from each other.

Shortage of masks, gowns, gloves for our front-line workers.

Shortage of respirators for the critically ill.

Panic buying sets in and we have no toilet paper, no disinfecting supplies, no paper towel no laundry soap, no hand sanitizer.

Shelves are bare.

Manufacturers, distilleries and other businesses switch their lines to help make visors, masks, hand sanitizer and PPE.

Government closes the border to all non essential travel and makes it mandatory to self isolate for 14 days when returning.

Fines are established for breaking the rules.

Fines for those price-gauging others.

Stadiums and recreation facilities open up for the overflow of Covid-19 patients.

Press conferences daily from the Government .

Barely anyone in the street or on the roads.

People wearing masks and gloves outside.

Essential service workers are terrified to go to work.

Medical workers are afraid to go home to their families.

Many people placed on furlough and unable to work with the government paying 80% of their wage.

They say it started in Wuhan, China at a seafood market. Hundreds of thousands affected, dead, dying, critically ill.

Many recovered.

This is the Novel Coronavirus (Covid-19) Pandemic, declared March 11th, 2020.

Why, you ask, do I write this status?

One day it will show up in my memory feed, and it will be a yearly reminder that life is precious. To not take the things we dearly love for granted.

We have so much!

Be thankful. Be grateful.

Be kind to each other – love one another – support everyone. ❤️

Okay so you broke up with your bf/gf. You will feel hurt and your heart will be sore. You will cry. Let out the cry so not hold it in. We are only human at the end of the day. As the time goes on you will find inner strength.

◦ Your self worth

Ask yourself were you been treated right by your ex ? If the answer is yes then you deserve someone a lot better. You deserve someone who will love you for you flaws and all. No body is perfect.

◦ Its now time for you

Use this time to help you. Do a hobby you have always wanted to do. Hang out with friends. Go out enjoy yourself. Be selfish find your inner happiness. Its in there trust me.

I know you might think this is the worst feeling ever.You feel like your heart is breaking. But us humans are adjustable human beans. You will re adjust to been single.

No matter how much time you put into that person. I know its time you will never get back but so be it. Live for the now and don’t think about tomorrow and don’t think about the past.

Chalk this down as experience. You came and you saw. And now you know what you are looking for.

Say this every time you get those feelings of been alone :

◦ I am worth it

◦ I deserve better

◦ I will get stronger

◦ It hurts now but time is a healer

◦ I will take time for me for a while

So we have heard news of a virus called coronavirus hitting china. We heard it hit the end of January. The government lied to everyone and it really hit the 1st of December. Its a SARS like virus. It effects the breathing and has flu like symptoms. They are saying it came from a wet market in china where they kill wild animals. What we have heard is it came in on bats and transferred to other animals. Then people ate the animals and some how it got into human transmission.

China has had some deaths but the whole area of wuhan is in lock down.

Then it hit a cruise ship. And then we got cases here in Ireland. This is due to schools traveling.

It has hit Pretty badly as the whole country has gone into lockdown as of today.

Italy had so many deaths there as well. They are saying on the news this is how it came to ireland with schools going skiing there. They then brought it back to ireland and infected people here. The first 6 cases confirmed were in inagh and ennistymon. They had been to Italy and came back.

Now numbers are rising in ireland. It came in as a cluster in one family in ennistymon and has spread like wildfire. People are stockpiling there food ( which i have done) and other accessories. As if the country goes into lockdown there will be no shops open. People have been told to self isolate if they show any symptoms as its highly contagious. We are at the point of a pandemic. It has now spread across Europe and is slowly making its way to America. There is currently no cure for the virus. Scientist are putting vaccinations to human trials at the moment It could take 9 months for it to be developed. How many will be dead by then?

Thanks for joining me!

Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter. — Izaak Walton