Leo to address nation at 9 hopefully with full lockdown like France.We need it .A spokesman on Irish retail said this morning that another 200,000 workers could be laid off before this weekend is out. Business people have no idea when they can open again, workers haven't a clue if they'll have jobs to go back to. Supermarkets are creaming it, selling everything under the sun and a huge amount of it not urgent and shop owners looking on at this with their own places closed down. I was in a major supermarket yesterday to just check up on how much management is being put into social distancing, gels, etc. The answer is not doing a thing worth talking about, the place full of people, up and down aisles, checkouts pretty packet with queues right up to each other, fruit and veg handled by god knows how many people, same with stuff off the shelves, handing over cash, taking change, same with debit cards and putting in your code on keys right after the last person used it, no cleaning at all. Plenty of groups in chat mode as normal, trollies going here, there and everywhere with not a thought of how many hands were on them. As bad and all as the weather is, there's young people in groups all over the place there, the list goes on. The penny certainly hasn't dropped yet as to what's coming down the line, wait until the ultimate starts happening in earnest and those we know have to pay the ultimate price? The trouble is I think it's too late at this stage. I know some are taking care, but it's the very small minority, kids are with grandparents in a big way, everyone's staying shtum about a lot of this but just wait another short while, it's scary really at this stage, another 350 or thereabouts dead today in Italy. Just think about that and they're telling us we might see a levelling off in a week or thereabouts even though the world has no cure for this. Are we to believe it's just going to disappear then, seriously?
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