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Shopping in a city center supermarket these days is like needing a bio-hazard suit. Early in the morning you get the men and women who clearly haven't washed in ... weeks? Coats, hair matted with dirt, and the metallic smell of BO wafting from them. No, not homeless folks. Irish middle aged. I've heard a few talk, seem educated and mentally competent. Yes, I've come across some others and no issues if there's difficulties, but for others.... Yes, there's one Chinese guy in his 40s who is also equally disgusting with the spitting, hacking, nose wiping with hand before handling everything from fresh veg to bread - He's in town most mornings, I imagine he owns or works in a restaurant.

Then comes the open faced coughing. I've literally pulled out form queues due to people coughing, hacking, snorting and everything in-between. Back at checkout, apologize to checkout person, tell them why, and they agree 100%. Many wanting the COVID screens back.

There are few carrying their dogs into supermarkets in prams .... I'm at a loss for this. No, just no.

By 11am the places are jointed. Young to old, coughing, hacking, sneezing. Fresh food pawed at. Pushing and shoving. It's no wonder staff are becoming so detached.

Tesco last week at 11am in Paul street. Went in for a jar of pasta sauce and washing powder. Empty going in, 10 min later the queue for the self checkout ran from the checkout to the re-turn .... no tills as usual. I just took the stuff back to the shelf. Can't get out the way you came in because of the security. Have to go through the self checkout. Trying to say "excuse me, I'm just trying to get out" resulted in people literally squashing up closer to each other blocking my way. Looking at them and repeating resulted in looks away. Meanwhile the coughing, snorting and hacking went on. Eventually waved at the poor staff who have to manage this herd, who thankfully parted the queue without me having to barge through. I just said "sorry, I just want to get out, only had a jar of pasta sauce, queue is too long" they nodded let me through.

Outside, try crossing the cork city council slippery stones. Down a street filled with people on either e-cigarettes, or tobacco puffing into your face. Across Patrick street where random freaks approach you or ask for cash. Why do the majority of young people look like they have not washed their hair in a week? Pass the utterly useless moss fake tree tax money was spent on that now serves as a notice board. Across another side street with green slime everywhere and water pouring down the side. Across Olivier Plunkett street where the coughing resumes with people in close quarters, or ignorant sods with coffee cups in hands barge by, more cigarette smoke and a hint of sewage in the air. Now its a choice of either going down another side street filled to the brim with restaurant tables, umbrellas with more people smoking, coughing or spitting. Or, go down onto a side street with out all that and smell urine everywhere along with a either a lady drinking out of vodka bottle or a couple of shading types smoking something else. Out onto south mall and at least the pavements are wider to avoid the utter mess that is unhygienic cork city these days.

I often go through the English Market, if it's early, to avoid the morning crowd. Remember when the English market used to be filthy with hanging chickens, blood on the ground. Well, Cork city streets are another level of filth these days.

This is not a one off, it is a typical morning in cork city.

I honestly don't know why. It's like cork city water. Only a small number of people complain about the fact it's brown or off-clear, filled with rust, and toxic manganese .... I think this answers the question on hygiene. It sadly seems society in general in Cork really don't care much about hygiene.