Person of the week, boos and cheers

Three Cheers...

For the new normal of celebrity-watching, although this could equally qualify for a big boo; it depends on your assessment of celebrities. But given that Majorca and the Balearics can’t survive without a regular diet of celebs, the cheers were sounding for former footballers and their spouses. Carles Pujol and his model wife Vanesa Lorenzo were out and about, and the local media finally got wind of Bastian Schweinsteiger and Ana Ivanovic, a good week or more after The Mail had highlighted her “tanned physique and floral bikini”. Then there was someone called Angy, who was in Spain’s X Factor and was Instagramming herself in Cala Tuent. Oh well ...

A big boo...

For outbreaks and the concern that can arise by describing them as outbreaks. A month ago, in reference to coronavirus cases involving a family in Palma’s Son Gotleu, the spokesperson for the Balearics committee for the management of coronavirus, Dr. Javier Arranz, explained that there was a difference between an outbreak and contagion. Essentially, the former has “sustained transmission” in different places and will involve higher numbers than the eleven who tested positive positive in Son Gotleu. Therefore, three people in Inca and five in Palma weren’t outbreaks, but they were a reminder that this virus most certainly hasn’t gone away.