Spain

• 6,740 new cases


• 367 new deaths

There is one particular store downtown here (a discount store) that is openingly defining the lockdown restrictions. They have a lot of support from the public apparently and I might just pop in myself at the weekend. 

Nope. Just that the idea that the President only enquiring rather than instructing will have no impact on people's thinking or behaviour IS naive. Full stop.

6.7k new cases. What’s been their recent run rate?! That seems very high indeed,

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/spain/

Looks like a general upwards trend over the last 10 days or so...

Same 'commit suicide for NHS' event in westminster.

[censored]ers.

There are really only two options.

Everyone here is a cretinous moron with an IQ smaller than their shoesize

or they are deliberately trying to spread the virus.

[censored]all of them.

I'm not going to post anymore of these photos (although I could there are so many) it makes me too angry and depressed. Anyone in any of these images should be fined £1000 and any official workers should be charged double.

Plenty of the antivax/homeschool brigade already do stuff like that. Google "CD protocol" or "MMS". Basically these people drink bleach, or make their autistic children drink bleach. When that destroys their intestines to the extent that bits of mucous membrane come out the other end, they think this is evidence that "parasites" are being expelled. Crazy people that I have had all to much online exposure to.

More of the old "telephoto trickery" to make places look crowded, I see. 

For the fans of the Swedish approach: the govt expects the biggest recession since WWII with GDP falling between 4-10%. The number of infections is also rising in Stockholm.

https://www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-sweden-economy/update-1-swedish-finance-minister-warns-coronavirus-recession-could-to-be-worst-since-wwii-idUSL5N2CC2Y0

People that want to end the lockdown to save the economy are morons.

It will make the economic issues even worse. Imagine the exact same situation we are in now but with 10x as many daily cases and deaths.

I am not defending these morons, but should point out that often these photos are taken with telephoto lenses which have the effect of dramatically compressing the depth of field of the image, making people seem closer to one another than they actually are.

edit: Sorry Rob, hadn’t noticed you posted the same!

Quite. It can't be good for the economy to have a significant proportion of the contributors dead or dying.

I don't envy the powers that be who are in charge of when and how we will inevitably relax restrictions. What worries me is people and places taking matters into their own hands. That is a recipe for disaster.

Even if that is the case it can't be a bad thing to remind the public that there are in fact restrictions in place.

Yep even had ice cream van outside for children dinner time was asked by teachers to move on btw 37 in today 

I quite agree.  All I’m saying is, I could easily pick up my zoom lens now and go to Asda and take pictures that appear to show people hustling and bustling with each other, even though they are the required 2m apart. 

As you know I am inclined to agree on that point. However, to play devil's advocate this is worth a read:

Coronavirus dies out within 70 days no matter how we tackle it, claims professor

Prof Isaac Ben-Israel claims that his analysis shows that the virus is self-limiting and peaks at 40 days before entering a rapid decline

But one Israeli professor claims that all efforts will lead to the same result, because the disease is self-limiting, and largely vanishes after 70 days, with or without any interventions.

Prof Isaac Ben-Israel, head of the Security Studies program at Tel Aviv University and the chairman of the National Council for Research and Development, claims that his analysis proves Covid-19 peaks at 40 days before rapidly declining.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/04/23/coronavirus-dies-within-70-days-no-matter-tackle-claims-professor/

I read that this morning, shaking my head. He's pulled a number out his butt and assumes it'll work across all countries. I think he'll look a bit silly in the summer, but we'll see.

EDIT: Notwithstanding the fact that we're well over 70 days into the epidemic here in the UK... first cases end of Jan, all of Feb, March and 24 days of April = 84 days and counting!

That is huge

By far their biggest daily total.  Hopefully a result of a reporting backlog and not a new trend for Wales.