Madrid province president is now loudly asking to end the state of emergency, they are afraid of 1 million unemployed creating social troubles in Madrid. Outside the civil parasites, for sure a lot of people are gonna end jobless. The right and some independantists are also now opposed to the state of emergency, I don t follow count but the vote may depend on whether the main right party will vote against or abstain, plus what the centrist party will do, those have started negociating with the government so it doesn t look good, but every 2 weeks we get a new prorogation vote and some hope. Prime minister tries to paint a very dark picture , saying if state of emergency is not voted the next day everybody has to get back to work. Looks awesome to me...
Loads like LOADS of police around today in town, 4 cop cars same area, first few weeks of this saw 1 car the same 1 a few times. Went out to a small town for a walk with the kids ( all had it, as she lived at mine at the time ), they had signs up, nobody from outside the town is allowed, amazing I didn't get police saying hi. Lowest deaths in 6weeks today, pretty much over although some areas might flare up and look like a 2nd wave, with or without lockdown. Just find it odd, they've stopped everything else, except for 5G installs. 25% of the UK's wages are being paid by the government released today, no idea of unemployment numbers but bet it's 10mil min. Thursday there giving us the ease plan then Sunday wobble head is mumbling on about something. Numbers dropping nicely in Spain, hopefully enough infected and immune that it'll be hard for a 2nd wave, then hopefully like the UK they'll realise this and get back to normality quicker. I'll say though, it seems to be to please the most feared and although that group here is shrinking it's still wayyyy bigger than the it's nothing group, lets move on. Worked and walked along the river, they'd put up red tape and even metal fences to stop people walking along the river, crazy, obviously tape vanished and metal fences fell over!
There is a chance of normality and sense going, this is nothing, back to normal, forget all and get on with it then UK for school exams, they are estimating what grade, so if your bright but slacked at school doing C work would of get an A then your screwed, and vice versa, stupid.
Unfortunately not sure so many people immunized in Spain, I just read the first part of the article below (already read a similar article), authorities estimate 10% of Catalunya has been infected, they checked all the staff at a Barcelona hospital and only 11% had been infected, less than expected In Spanish : https://www.larazon.es/coronavirus/20200504/grbfaxwk6bfqpk5tg6bu4npjiq.html
You did read the Antibody tests where basically useless right ?? Many False Negatives. New test being rolled out UK and USA 99.8% accuracy, not made in China ( I think ) Somebody tested there hospital staff expecting nearly 100% and got 7% some professor.
Actually Spain ahs had the toughest restrictions in Europe and now all the Northern part of Europe looks way better off. Most countries are reopenings schools (Italy UK And Spain being the exceptions it seems in europe). Just across the border in Portugal schools are either reopened or about to and the feedback I got from a mma gym there is they are again working as usual. Never completely closed either, doing very small group classes during the lockdown. I have 2 kids who are fighting and there is no plan to reopen contact sports in Spain, they would also like to go back to school, but now September doesn´t even look safe. Borders largely closed so hard to move overseas, which sucks anyway as we moved here last summer and spent quite a bit of time doing administrative work and settling in. Weather in Madrid is harsher than on the coast btw, mornings colder in the suburbs than downtown, got 6 weeks poor weather, twice snow the last week of March (mornings only, snow in afternoon is very rare ), but the mercury went up 10 degrees in a couple of days. Still windy but much more summer like.
Dunno, living in a Madrid suburb, in Madrid the city did´t wat to open the parks afaik but not sure about Barcelona. People were surfing and doing other water sports last sunday in Barcelona btw, on the first day going outside alone was allowed. In Madrid Parkour guys and joggers can also have fun, tougher for other sports fans.
Yes, read about the false negatives although suspect it won´t change the overall results significantly. But obviously more than happy to be wrong on that one.