[rumanator]

> There were enough cues to stop the rally

This is blatantly and shamelessly false. On the day of the rally there were zero reported deaths by covid19 in the entire country, let alone Madrid. By then the total number of confirmed cases in the entire country barely reached 1k.

There isn't a single nation or government in the history of humanity that decided to lock down an entire country just because there was 1k cases of what was described by then as a mere atypical form of viral pneumonia.

[mdemare]

By March 8th, they had been 3k deaths in Wuhan. It was blatantly obvious by that time that Covid-19 was dangerous, and also that the testing situation was such that no one knew how widespread the virus was. Since the strict Spanish lockdown started just 6 days later, it seems clear that not halting the march was a big mistake, although it seems unclear how many were actually infected there.

[narag]

On the day of the rally there were zero reported deaths by covid19 in the entire country

But the situation in Italy, our neighbours, was clear enough, no need to be Nostradamus.

There isn't a single nation or government in the history of humanity that decided to lock down an entire country...

You're very good attacking a strawman. Between encouraging massive rallies of hundred of thousands of persons packed in the streets and locking down an entire country, you know, there's a whole lot of intermediate points.

...just because there was 1k cases of what was described by then as a mere atypical form of viral pneumonia.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/coronavirus-update-107758-...