As officials across Spain wrestle with a surge in the number of coronavirus cases, a chorus of voices is warning that another lockdown could have dire consequences for a country that just months ago emerged from one of Europe’s strictest confinements.

While cases of the virus have climbed across Europe, Spain has led the pack in recent days. More than 78,000 cases have been detected in the past two weeks, pushing the 14-day infection rate to 166 per 100,000, compared with 67 in France and 22 in the UK.

The steady rise has raised the spectre of fresh lockdowns in the coming weeks, particularly in Madrid where unions have warned that the primary care system is “on the edge of collapse”, due to a lack of staff and testing resources.

“If things continue as they are going, we’ll probably have to return to some sort of confinement, at least partially,” José Felix Hoyo Jiménez of the Spanish non-profit Médicos del Mundo told the broadcaster TeleMadrid on Monday. While the recent rise had been steady, it was likely to be less pronounced than what the country experienced in March and April, he added.

“The data is not good, the data is worrying,” he said. The rise in cases, however, was “far from the situation seen in mid-March” and not homogenous across the country, he added.

“We all – and it seems natural to me – think that the response we have to give in this second phase needs to be similar to that of the first phase. And it’s not like that,” he said, arguing that officials are now more prepared and have a better understanding of the virus.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...virus-lockdown

going to be a NO from me dawg

2 more weeks

I think the US has another lockdown between Thanksgiving and Christmas, or at some point during the winter. Once this winter is over, then I think everyone will kind of forget the virus.

yeah no way in hell you are going to have get used to the new normal.

yea because all these dumbfukks will be clogging the hospital up when little Johnny has the sniffles from school thinking its covid, and all the panicels thinking the flu is covid etc.... will be a ****show

This supposed to imitate the Kobe gif?

I mean yeah, things will be a little different, but masks will largely be gone, everything will be open, and a lot of people won't really care. Of course everyone's going to have those moments where they don't want to go somewhere, run when someone sneezes, or always be wearing a mask, but this won't last forever.Pretty much this. I always get a runny nose in cold weather, it's just what happens. But what you will see are the panicels crying out that COVID is spreading when it could just be the flu or the common cold. Definitely worth keeping an eye out for it though.

spain is fuked

hate to see it from a once alpha country