No Second Wave in Spain
Tue 5:32 pm +01:00, 28 Jul 2020
Yesterday’s Blower cartoon in the Telegraph
Will Jones, a contributor to Lockdown Sceptics, has written a good piece for Conservative Woman about the needless panic over Spain’s “second wave”.
While there has in the past month been a surge in cases, mainly in Catalonia, there has been no corresponding surge in deaths nor in serious cases, which remain notably flat, indicating a surge so far either among the low risk or in the number of tests only.
Further considerations are that half the new cases in Spain are asymptomatic and we have no reason to believe that the asymptomatic are infectious. In addition, with the number of people being tested so high, and the percentage of cases so low, it’s likely that some of the uptick is due to false positives. The antigen test is notoriously unreliable, as this episode illustrates, when six out of seven staff members at a Scottish football club who’d tested positive turned out to be negative when retested.
In other words, the newly-imposed quarantine for travellers returning from Spain (and the Spanish islands) is completely pointless.
Who would have guessed?
As Alexandra Phillips points out in the Telegraph, the Government’s U-turn on quarantine travel restrictions is straight out of The Thick of It.
Worth reading Will Jones’s piece in full.
https://lockdownsceptics.org/
