The following video reports that Spain has decided to relax its COVID-19 regulations. It’s not because the Spanish have decided that they value freedom, however — it’s because more 90% of the population has now been double-jabbed.
Many thanks to HeHa for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes and RAIR Foundation for the subtitling:
Video transcript:
| 00:00 | Spain has proposed a change in the method of dealing with the pandemic, | |
| 00:04 | with the goal of returning to normality. | |
| 00:07 | The Spanish Minister of Health affirms that the thorough controls | |
| 00:11 | done with Covid tests could be removed at the end of the month, | |
| 00:14 | in order to start treating Covid as endemic, like the flu. | |
| 00:18 | Dr. Jeffrey Lazarus doesn’t think this is a new approach. | |
| 00:22 | I think it deals more with politics, rather than with public health. | |
| 00:25 | Every time there is a new Covid wave, they propose something new. | |
| 00:28 | At first they just spoke of the use of masks, outdoors. | |
| 00:31 | Now they even want to stop counting the cases, and to stop testing. | |
| 00:34 | The WHO says to be cautious. | |
| 00:37 | Despite the global momentum for vaccination, with almost ten billion doses | |
| 00:41 | administered already, there are still shortcomings. | |
| 00:44 | The governments in charge are supposed to think of how to face the next elections. | |
| 00:49 | But they also need to implement a real public health approach. | |
| 00:53 | Restrictions can be reduced when the cases decrease. | |
| 00:56 | This doesn’t mean that they cannot be reintroduced if the cases — | |
| 01:00 | and hospitalizations particularly — increase. | |
| 01:03 | If there is a new variant. Or if we find out that we need an extra booster shot. | |
| 01:08 | It is likely that the decision of downgrading Covid | |
| 01:12 | to the status of flu will be opposed by both Germany and France, | |
| 01:16 | where the acceptance of vaccination continues to be low, compared to Spain, | |
| 01:19 | where more than the 90% of the adult population has already had the two doses of vaccine. |