Information: Non-essential items & the Irish Covid-19 lockdown.
Based on Twitter & clips from RTÉ there’s a few people (& businesses) upset by which items are considered essential & non-essential. Let’s look at the logic of the decision-making.
Based on Twitter & clips from RTÉ there’s a few people (& businesses) upset by which items are considered essential & non-essential. Let’s look at the logic of the decision-making.
One item held up as being unfair as as sold in supermarkets is alcohol. At first glance that makes sense. That is, unless you live with a violent abuser where drinking themselves to sleep is a relief for their partner & kids. I’ve seen this flagged many times by survivors.
Another item held up was clothes. The challenge with clothing is people take their time browsing. Covid exposure is measured not only by length of contact with a carrier but also is measured cumulatively. So the longer you spend in an interior the greater the chance of contagion
You may think that you can nip in & out & ‘sure it’s only a pair of socks’ but as anyone going into even a discount food store will have noticed, people dawdle over nearly anything. If you haven’t noticed, you’re probably the dawdler.
Shops that are not allowed open should consider having a website or phone number that customers can order on & then either collect or deliver locally by bicycle. There are lots of cheap easy websites you can pay $100 dollars a year with built in shop functions to order.
Just because your local suppliers are closed, that doesn’t mean they don’t have people available to take orders over the phone. For more expensive items An Post has registered post which arrives within 2-3 working days & is relatively cheap.
This is the time for businesses to ensure they provide online solutions. Each town, village or suburb should set up a local Twitter or FB account where they can gather up who is selling over the phone or by website. Delivery can be done by bike & left in porches etc.
Christmas is coming & it’s vital all small businesses get online & focus on customers needs. No one is going to do it for you. You have to do it yourself. I know of one business that spent a week setting up a website from scratch & their sales mean they are staying afloat
We need to prevent mixing of people. The numbers testing positive are huge & the likelihood of large numbers of fatalities was v high. If there was no lockdown we might have been looking at a minimum 5,000 extra deaths.
Twitter is full of bright sparks & ideas. If you have a challenge share it here & let’s get people on the case.
We are ALL in this together.
And socks? 👇
We are ALL in this together.
And socks? 👇
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