Spain’s Morenoite Izquierda Diario calls for “safe nightlife” as COVID-19 surges
Amid a massive resurgence of coronavirus cases in Spain, the Morenoite Workers’ Revolutionary Current (CRT), and its online publication Izquierda Diario, has launched a politically-criminal campaign encouraging youth to throw caution to the wind and pour back into nightclubs and bars.
People wearing face masks to protect against the spread of coronavirus walk along a commercial street in downtown Madrid, Spain, Saturday, June 5, 2021. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)
Infection rates have surged in Spain, with daily cases more than quadrupling in two weeks. As of yesterday, the seven-day rolling average of cases was 24,049, compared to 3,574 a month ago, and more than at any point since mid-February. On July 15, Spain recorded 32,680 new cases of COVID-19, the most reported on any single day since the beginning of the pandemic in February 2020.
Madrid embraces “Wuhan lab” conspiracy, ends mask mandate
Numerous editorials have appeared in the Spanish media in recent weeks giving credence to the lie that the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes COVID-19, escaped from a laboratory in Wuhan, China. This comes after US President Joe Biden publicly legitimised the conspiracy at the end of May and gave the US security services 90 days to investigate it.
On 28 May,
El País, which is aligned with the ruling Socialist Party (PSOE), published an editorial entitled “Clarifying the origin of the coronavirus.” Referring to the US investigation, they stated: “What had from time to time surfaced as a mere conspiracy theory … is now expressed, for the first time, as a possible explanation, from the knowledge that three scientists at [the Wuhan] laboratory could have contracted Covid in autumn 2019, before the disease was announced.