The state of alarm ends in Spain tomorrow at midnight. The "new normal" starts on Sunday. We're starting to get instructions to go back to work on a more or less regular schedule (less working from home). Offers for summer camps for kids are published. Airports are opening and foreign and national tourists are expected to start arriving on July 1st.
But we keep hearing about new outbreaks. In China. In Germany. In several points here in Spain. It seems like some people are all "viva la vida" and blanking on the coronavirus and what we've lived through, desperate to get back to "life as usual", while the others seem to be living in a state of anxious paranoia worried that we're opening up too soon, the virus is still here we're told. What if there are outbreaks that can't be traced? In the news yesterday they said about two thirds of Spaniards aren't planning on going anywhere on vacation, and this in a country where it's almost an obligatory tradition to head out for a month to a beach or village or mountain holiday... And those of us who live in holiday destinations are actually worried about people coming here from other parts of the country (Madrid we're looking at you!) and other countries (UK...) and increasing the risk of our being exposed to the virus in our own city...
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