Spain is bringing back face masks in hospitals and healthcare centres across the country from today, the Health Ministry said. The Mail has the story.
The new Leftist minority coalition Government is imposing the measure despite opposition from most of Spain’s 17 autonomous regions.
“We are talking about putting on a mask when you enter a health centre and taking it off when you leave,” Health Minister Monica Garcia told Cadena Ser radio.
“I don’t think it is any drama. It is a basic and simple measure of the first order,” she added.
Spain’s hospitals have come under immense pressure in recent weeks following a spike in cases of flu, COVID-19 and other respiratory illnesses.
Ms. Garcia’s ministry decided to impose the measure after failing to reach an agreement with regional health authorities, many of whom argued that mask use should be recommended but not obligatory.
Regional governments are in charge of healthcare although the central Government can intervene if it deems it necessary.
Six regions have already introduced the measure and masks have been commonly used on streets and public transport and in health centres in recent months.
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new Leftist minority coalition Government is imposing the measure
That’s all which needs to be known about this. These people are still there and they’re still perfectly ready to catapult as back into 2020 because of the same, tired old common cold virus because the UN, it it’s guise as WHO, still really wants that.
Too many people are stupid and retarded and will follow said ‘guidance’ which is anti-health, anti-science. If most people just say no they can do nothing.
The definition of madness. Doing the Same Thing Over and Over Again and Expecting Different Results
They’re expecting (or rather, hoping for) the same results: Back to the glory days of the pandemic, when every political hobbyhorse project of some notorious, left-leaning busybody could be implemented overnight if it could somehow be tied to “COVID” and when the nominal souvereign of a so-called democracy, the electorate, consisted of isolated, incarcerated and panic-stricken people who were even prohibited to talk to each other unless the experts had consented to that first.
You can only consider the use of facemasks to be a failure if you take their intended purpose to be the reduction of covid incidence. If you take, as is more likely the case, the intended purpose of masks to be a psychological trick that uses the symbolism of ubiquitous infection and disease as well as concurrently the symbolism of ovine obedience and self-censorship of free speech to keep us subconsciously tethered to the latest proclamation of the almighty state, worshipping the NHS and cowering in fear along with the loyal legions of disciples of the Mask Cult, then the mandating of the face mask was a resounding success!
I think it’s a mistake to try to see sense where none is. Imagine you have a product that’s not really good for anything¹. On top of that, it’s cumbersome and unhealthy to wear. How do you sell lots its nevertheless? Get the state to mandate it as sort-of a public health heatpump, ie essentially, a magical charm supposed to help against an imaginary danger.
There is/ was some billionaire-funded international lobbying group named masks4all which not only claimed that universal public masking would slay the pandemic single-handedly but would solve all other health problems caused by aerial pathogens as well. Stuff like this costs real money, hence, whoever set it up expected to make real money from it. This was marketed partially by gullible and pretty stupid mysophobes (Trisha Greenalgh, Susan Mitchie) and partially certainly by simply paying so-called renowned experts and politicians for that.
¹ When the UK mask mandate was first announced, I bought a pair of cloth masks of the type most commonly worn in the UK. The text on box said (in the usual Chinese English)
Fashion mask. Not a medical mask. Use for dust protection, sun protection, fashion.
And that’s exactly what got originally mandated for urgent public health reasons. As this telling inscription became widely known, the people who were originally marketing these fashions masks evolved their ‘arguments’ accordingly: So, these kinds of masks are completely useless? Well, but here’s a different kind of mask and that’s now really the real magical charm!
Great news for their economy, anothe country determined to destroy its people, well done.
This heading is lying by omission. If it read “In Health centres and Hospitals, Spanish Government Reimposes Mask Rules,” then all well and good, and more importantly, true. Instead, in screaming the current truncated headline the fear factor, whilst heightened, is based on an untruth for the sake of impact.
I write as someone who 1. Lives in the Valencia region. 2. Has been a Spanish resident for my 23 years here. 3. Is an unjabbed 75yr old, who thinks for himself and abhors authoritarianism.
A bit of proportion wouldn’t go amiss. Lying for effect isn’t big and it’s not clever. Will Jones should be ashamed at such a cheap shot.
True. Agreed.
But it’s a very small step to imposing it all, everywhere, again…
We’re in French Catalonia, twenty miles in a straight line from Spain which we visit often both for flights and for pleasure, everyone is done with the charade, everywhere. France too. The odd numpty in a face nappy, sure. Let’s see how it develops, if at all…
PS unjabbed and never stopped travelling throughout, and didn’t allow anyone to stick sticks up our noses.
The headline is accurate: The government did impose mask rules accross the country. Specifically, that mask must be worn in health care settings because of the usual winter-spike of respiratory diseases, something which never saw mask mandates imposed on anyone prior to 2020. And the minority government refers to this as a basic and simple measure of the first order just as if forcing people to wear facemasks in winter because of diseases is something we had all been doing for centuries.
That’s classic Corona-lying of the first order by the usual reality refuseniks who already got the whole shit show on the road because of nothing but their refusal to accept reality four years ago.
Does this foreshadow the potential types of policies enacted by a labour-led government in Britain? Be afraid – Be very afraid….. Of The STARMER!
So the moral of the story is…. perhaps read a little further into a news story than a headline?
In this case, as far as the very first sentence:
“Spain is bringing back face masks in hospitals and healthcare centres across the country from today, the Health Ministry said.”
Methinks 10navigator doth protest too much.
4 years back it was a thing ( so they say ) I say F – Off
The zealots just won’t quit, it seems.
So if you don’t wear this mask in Spanish Hospitals will they be not allowing you to attend your appointment? ——-If one person is allowed to attend their appointment without a mask everyone must be allowed. ——–I honestly think that if this mask thing happens again that a large amount of people will just say “Sorry I am not wearing a mask”. And if they try it for all indoor spaces they can forget it. You will have Supermarkets with maybe 60% wearing the mask and the other 40% not wearing them, and so the 60% will soon say “what is the point”? and will decide to get rid of them as well.
Last time when Boris the Bovine did this, 5% of people wearing masks (estimate) got switched to maybe 1% not wearing them overnight. Not the least because so-called security guards – ubiquitous in our time – where forcing them onto everyone who didn’t resist outright.
Yes in hospitals this may be the case but people know more now than back then. But in non public budlings people will a lot of the time refuse
This is why it is important not to forget. These practices need to be outed for what they are…useless, performative and controlling.
“I don’t think it is any drama. It is a basic and simple measure of the first order,”. Yes, the first order of stupidity!