Posted on 06/19/2021 8:48:51 AM PDT by Oshkalaboomboom
Prime Minister Sánchez announces the relaxation of the anti-pandemic law a week in advance
Weeks of speculation regarding a possible lifting of the legal requirement to wear facemasks in public throughout Spain was ended on Friday morning by Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, who announced that the obligatory anti-pandemic measure will at last be relaxed on Saturday 26th June.
Despite opposition from various regional health authorities, notably those of Andalucía and the Basque Country, an extraordinary meeting of Cabinet will be held on Thursday 24th June to approve the move, Sr Sánchez stated.
The announcement is almost certain to draw strong criticism from some quarters, and surveys suggest that at least a third of all Spaniards will continue to wear masks in certain situations.
Full details of exactly where masks will still be required have not been given; the PM made his surprise announcement at the closure of a meeting of an economic group in Barcelona.
The only details available at the moment are that masks will no longer be obligatory in open-air spaces in which a 1.5 metre social distance can be maintained.
Although some of the regional authorities have been calling for a relaxation of the measures, others are insisting that masks will continue to be required on the terraces of bars and restaurants and at open-air concerts.
After almost a year and a half monitoring the most intensely studied virus in history, an increasing number of studies point to the risk of transmission in the open-air as being very low, as long as social distancing is observed.
A study in late 2020 looked at 1,245 cases in China and found only one in which transmission took place outdoors. The body in charge of monitoring infectious diseases in Ireland, the Health Protection Surveillance Center, pointed out in early April that of the 232,164 cases detected in the country so far, the number of infections believed to have been initiated by outside activity was 262, around 0.1%.
Another study carried out in the city of Milan in Italy, where 10% of the 1.5 million inhabitants were infected, researchers used mathematical models and concluded that it would be necessary to spend 31 consecutive days in public roads, with continuous exposure and mouth and nose uncovered, in order to contract the pathogen in open-air spaces.
The final details will not be confirmed until the cabinet meeting next Thursday and by then it will be clear if any of the regional authorities will decide to maintain the wearing of masks in their respective regions.
For some reason they are able to predict the exact date and time at which COVID will become inert and harmless.
No, but they do know the exact date summer tourist season starts and they are desperate to not miss it, especially for something so mundane. Last summer our town of 27,000 people had one covid death the entire season, less than the number of people who drowned.
God save us! People are plum STUPID, WORLDWIDE! Wearing masks OUTSIDE? What a bunch of simpering hypochondriac COWARDS!
My next door neighbor has been given both vaccine shots but he doesn’t leave the house without his mask on. I see him with his mask on walking his dogs even though the road is deserted and he would have plenty of time to cross the road if he saw anyone else coming near him. I wouldn’t be surprised if he kept his mask on after restrictions are lifted.
Yeah, there’s many Covidian cultists still wearing the mask, even outside, even alone, even after they get their ‘vaccine’ (gene therapies). It’s sad to see insanity laid bare. I pity them.
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