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Ireland to impose 5km travel limit in strict new Covid lockdown:
Ireland is to close much of its economy and society in a second Covid-19 lockdown that imposes some of the severest restrictions in Europe.
Non-essential shops will close and people are asked to stay at home, with a 5km (3 mile) travel limit for exercise, to curb surging infection rates, the government announced on Monday evening.
From midnight on Wednesday the country will move to its highest lockdown tier for six weeks. Visits to private homes or gardens will not be permitted and there are to be no gatherings except for tightly controlled weddings and funerals.
A graduated fine system for those who breach the 5km travel limit – with exceptions for work and other purposes deemed essential – will be announced later this week. People who live alone or are parenting alone can pair with one other household as part of a support bubble. Two households can meet outdoors within the travel limit. Public transport will operate at 25% capacity.
Non-essential retail will close along with barbers' shops, beauty salons, gyms, leisure centres and cultural amenities. Pubs, cafes and restaurants will be allowed to serve takeout meals only, a devastating blow to an already weakened hospitality sector.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday October 25 2020, @01:02PM (9 children)
Dude, why you wanna ruin a perfectly good joke on the stereotype by taking it seriously?
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 5, Touché) by looorg on Sunday October 25 2020, @01:24PM (8 children)
Well according to the mods the joke just was not all that funny. You should have added something about potatoes, gingers or famine. That would really have hit the spot.
(Score: 4, Funny) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday October 25 2020, @03:08PM (1 child)
Scuse me, I meant perfectly functional not perfectly good. I was going for a groan not a belly laugh.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 25 2020, @04:12PM
+1 touche for me, the AC! Yay!!!
(now I'll get downmodded for gloating...).
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 25 2020, @04:24PM (5 children)
Guess which country has the largest population of gingers?
...step forward, the USofA. (ok, yes, that's courtesy of all the descendants of the Irish, Scots and Jewish immigrants..)
Now gingers as a percentages of the population...ISTR there's a dispute as to if it's the Irish or Scots who win that one.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 25 2020, @04:40PM
https://www.memecenter.com/fun/75576/Redhead-vs-Ginger [memecenter.com]
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Monday October 26 2020, @12:20AM (3 children)
WRONG!!! SO WRONG! Per capita, no country on Earth has a greater population of gingers than Gilligan's Island.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 26 2020, @05:45AM (2 children)
+1 Groan?
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Monday October 26 2020, @06:27PM (1 child)
Oh snap! You don't like Ginger? So, you're in the Mary Ann camp, then? On second thought, as it's 2020 you could be in the Mrs. Howell or even Gilligan camp...
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 27 2020, @03:25PM
How about Ginger *and* Mary Ann [motherless.com]? [NSFW]
Or Ginger, Mary Ann *and* Lovey [motherless.com]? [also NSFW]
Now that would have made for some *must see TV* [wikipedia.org]!