> Probably because, just as in every other country, demography is the confounding variable and poverty/inequality the actual predictor of blue collar crimes?

Is that a good reason to not be allowed to discuss the problem?

> Because, after Belgium, Spain has the highest per capita Covid death rate in the world?

We also had the strictest lock down in Europe. Children were allowed out for the first time with their parents on 5 weeks and were being shamed for standing too close by some reditors standard.

It's gone from "flatten the curve so the hospitals aren't overwhelmed" to some bizarre sort of virtue signalling where the more you complain about the actions of others the more virtuous you are. If you look at this study, outdoors doesn't seem such a problem. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.04.20053058v...

What went wrong? Italy got hit early and failed to control care home deaths, but I've not heard why Spain and Belgium are so bad.

Football matches and Womens March right when the cases were starting to get bad must have been a contributor. Spanish and Italian culture are quite physical compared to the UK, people greet with kisses. Cities are quite dense.

Now that the virus is out there, they are trying to make up for it retroactively with overly strict measures.