Hi, the situation here in Ireland is as bad as anywhere else in Europe. Our incidence has been above 600 per 7 days for almost two months now, our wave started way before the current wave in Germany. Hospitals are struggling (mostly because Ireland's healthcare system is chronically underfunded and was nearly saved to death in 2011 after the global economic meltdown (on the insistence of Germany who at the time told Ireland to damn well save money if they wanted help from the EU - same as with Greece and Portugal and the likes...) and paying the price for people not giving a shit anymore. This new wave is homemade in Ireland. We have a vaccination rate of 94% of people above the age of 12 being fully vaccinated which is the highest in Europe, still our incidence has been one of the worst in the whole EU for weeks because people don't wear masks anymore, don't keep their distance, have big birthday parties, etc. They just don't care about Covid anymore and if you say something, all you get back is: I am fully vaccinated, so I will be fine... It's madness :/ 

Even my boss had a birthday party with 20 children for his 5-year old twins four weeks ago when our incidence was already above 600... When I told him I thought that was just crazy, he got all pissed and was like: We need to get used to living with the virus, we can't just have lockdown after lockdown. And law and behold: His kids and him got really sick afterwards, bad flu like symptoms for two weeks, but the antigen tests were negative, so he never went for a PCR test and insists it wasn't Covid... There you go :/ 

Me and three friends went to Belfast last week to visit the local Christmas market there (it's the closest to a German Christmas market you can get here in Ireland and we go every year) and up in the UK they don't have any regulations anymore at all (after all they had their Freedom Day in the summer and Covid is over according to Boris!!!) and it was really scary to be on a train or bus with fifty other people not wearing masks, same as going to shops and nobody wearing a mask except for some smart people who wore them anyway even if it's not mandated by law. I really got anxiety up there and my friends and I were so glad when we arrived back in Dublin lol.

Yes, I watched the fourth season already. Over here you could just watch it online on the web player of the TV channel that aired it here (like Mediathek at ARD/ZDF). Even though it was quite different to previous seasons (as June is now in Canada), I liked it and I liked the way they showed her struggle getting used to life as a free woman again. That's all I am going to say without spoiling too much ;)

I just wanted to give Jenny a chance to experience some "normal" every day family life, something she never got to experience before. 

I promise something big will happen in the next chapter. I have a feeling a lot of people will be happy when it drops ;)

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Stay safe!

But no worries, we'll hear from Melanie very soon!

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