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by rumanator 2218 days ago
> The same day the Spanish government let hundred of thousands take part in the 8th of March International Women's Day rallies all over Spain: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-womens-day-spain-idUSKBN2....

On March 8th Spain barely registered 1k cases, and counted zero deaths due to covid19.

The first confirmed death in Spain due to covid19 was registered on March 9th.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_Spain

It makes no sense to criticize a democratic government to impose emergency measures a kin of totalitarian and oppressive regimes just because there were barely 1k cases of an atypical pneumonia which even the World Health Organization claimed that wouldn not spread between humans.