{"id":52856,"date":"2020-04-29T15:52:26","date_gmt":"2020-04-29T20:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=52856"},"modified":"2020-04-29T15:52:31","modified_gmt":"2020-04-29T20:52:31","slug":"life-under-draconian-lockdown-i-can-barely-see-the-light-at-the-end-of-this-long-dark-tunnel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=52856","title":{"rendered":"Life Under Draconian Lockdown: I Can Barely See the Light at the End of this Long, Dark Tunnel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wolfstreet.com\/2020\/04\/29\/life-under-draconian-lockdown-i-can-barely-see-the-light-at-the-end-of-this-long-dark-tunnel\/\">Life Under Draconian Lockdown: I Can Barely See the Light at the End of this Long, Dark Tunnel<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The process of reopening Spain has been dubbed, rather ominously, \u201cOperation New Normality.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIs there any light at the end of this long dark tunnel?\u201d That\u2019s a question many people are asking themselves in Spain, whose government has implemented one of the most draconian anti-Covid lockdown regimes in the world and is now beginning to loosen some of the restrictions. Sunday was the first time in 43 days that children were allowed to venture out, albeit only for a maximum of one hour. And only if they were accompanied by one adult. And under the age of 14.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was hardly a return to normality, but after six long weeks of being cooped up at home, most of the children and their parents were happy to take up the invitation of a little fresh air, a few rays of sunshine and some open space. For the first time in a month and a half, the streets and squares of villages, towns and cities across Spain were alive with the sound of people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This being Spain, not everyone obeyed the government\u2019s slightly loosened rules. From the vantage point of our balcony, in the\u00a0<em>Exiample Dreta<\/em>\u00a0district of Barcelona, my wife and I could see many children being shepherded by both of their parents. We could also spot groups of families together as well as opportunistic childless couples who were hoping to blend in with the crowds unnoticed. Some got away with it. Others were stopped by the police and given a stern warning or fined.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since the lockdown began in Spain some 740,000 people \u2014 the equivalent of 18,000 per day \u2014 have been fined for breaking the government\u2019s Covid-19 rules,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/elpais.com\/espana\/2020-04-25\/tantas-multas-propuestas-en-el-confinamiento-como-impuestas-en-cuatro-anos-de-ley-mordaza.html\">according to<\/a>\u00a0<em>El Pa\u00eds<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life Under Draconian Lockdown: I Can Barely See the Light at the End of this Long, Dark Tunnel The process of reopening Spain has been dubbed, rather ominously, \u201cOperation New Normality.\u201d \u201cIs there any light at the end of this long dark tunnel?\u201d That\u2019s a question many people are asking themselves in Spain, whose government [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2144,27230,743,855,6118],"class_list":["post-52856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-lockdown","tag-nick-corbishley","tag-spain","tag-viral-pandemic","tag-wolf-street"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52856"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52857,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52856\/revisions\/52857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}