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26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
Before ‘The Science’ flipped in the spring of 2020, the consensus among Western epidemiologists was that community masking doesn’t work. A new Spanish study strongly supports the pre-Covid conventional wisdom.
A Daily Sceptic reader has just returned from a trip to Spain and Italy and has sent us a guest post. He found the attitude of the locals to mask mandates, even on beaches, depressingly supine.
Ibizan officials are looking to put together a band of snitches to attend and report on parties that break lockdown rules. Party organisers are blamed for an increase in Covid cases and face fines of up to €600,000.
A raging battle has erupted in the Cabinet over plans for a danger list of countries – an 'Amber watch list' – that could see destinations like Spain and Italy suddenly move to red.
The Government is believed to be considering moving both Spain and Greece onto the "Amber Plus" List alongside France, a decision that could ruin the holiday plans of millions of Brits.
The Government says that Brits travelling to Spain cannot use negative results from relatively cheap and speedy antigen tests to gain entry – but the Spanish health authorities say that they can. So why the confusion?
The Government has added a handful of countries to its "Green List". All but one of these countries have also been added to the "Green Watchlist", meaning they are "at risk" of being pushed back onto the "Amber List".
Spain is set to trail cutting its working week to four days in an attempt to prevent increases in Covid infections – a further indication that work after the pandemic is likely to be very different from that before.
Travellers into Spain will need to show vaccine passports from May. That rules out unvaccinated Brits. But what about those with the vaccine? May could still be too early, warns Grant Shapps: "you can't say for certain".
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