26/10/2020 16:53
It just makes you wonder where all this is going to an end. Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez wants a six month curfew for Spain in the government´s latest move to combat the coronavirus. The curfew will have enormous repercussions for the bar and restaurant trade and could effectively dent any revival in the tourist industry in the near future. Patience is starting to run thin with the Spanish government,who like their counterparts across the globe, seem incapable of finding a solution to the pandemic. Sanchez rightly took us into lock down in March but wrongly brought us out in May.
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I do not know what the best solution is, but here in S'Arraco the bar last weekend was open full of patrons not wearing masks or maintaining social distancing inside or out. Now Andratx infection figure are 27, the highest since the beginning of this pandemic. No wonder. People are their own worst enemy.
Jason, I do not know in what universe you live, but the lock down brought Spain and even more Mallorca, down to it's economic knees. Only EU money keeps Spain standing up financially.....for now. This is a war, as our politicians love to call it. And in wars, people die, however sad it is. But, the balance has gone and governments only focus on protecting the weak and old, rather than the whole society, with a multitude of victims on the long term. Ofcourse, I am concerned about that too, still having my parents aged 90 and 92. But even they get it that the survival of the whole society is more important than saving a few. But, what politician has the cohones (or brains) to make such a decision.
Pablo Simons quote in another MDB piece sums it up nicely: “The measures in Spain are reactive, dragging our feet, with the feeling that there's no evaluation of whether they work and that something is done only because others took those steps," Spot on. Especially here on the island. They’ve done too little, too late. And here we are. Becoming ever more trapped in ever more senseless restrictions.