Spain Looks To Restrict Christmas And New Year’s Eve Gathering

Giving ideas to politicians with authoritarian leanings around the world

Spain eyes 6-people cap for holiday season parties, El Mundo reports

The Spanish government will propose to regional authorities a six-person limit for Christmas and New Year’s parties when they involve guests, El Mundo newspaper reported on Tuesday, citing a health ministry draft document.

Also, office gatherings and similar celebrations in the run-up to the holiday season would be limited to six people and preferably be held on restaurant terraces, outside or in a place with “no more than two walls”, it said.

The document recommends planning “different” Christmas celebrations without taking out the “soul and spirit” of the most popular holiday in the country.

The health ministry will discuss the document with the regions’ health chiefs, who could still introduce changes.

Spain, which has more than 1.58 million COVID-19 cases – western Europe’s second highest tally after France – and 43,131 dead – imposed a six-month state of emergency in October, giving regions legal backing to impose curfews and other restrictions.

The Olive Press, which is somehow figured out a way to stop copying and pasting, notes that there will be a curfew from 1am to 6am, meaning people would have to be home within an hour after New Year’s. And Spain is one of the nations which used their police to enforce the government dictates early on in the spring. And citizens do not have the Constitutional Rights that we do here. They just have to do what the government says, like it or not. Helps out with The Great Reset, making citizens more compliant, especially when there’s a 6 month state of emergency.

Then there’s this schmuck, unfortunately, one nominally on our side

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan on resistance to mask mandates:

“It’s sort of like saying ‘have a constitutional right to drive drunk’…. There is no constitutional right to walk around without a mask.”
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— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) November 23, 2020

I’d like him to point out in the Constitution of the U.S. and that of Maryland where he and the government have the power to do mask mandates. Driving is a privilege. Will you have a right to decline the vaccine (not sure why you’d want to, but, that’s your decision)?

Another politician unclear on both the difference between a privilege (driving) versus a right, and the existence of the 9th Amendment. (They dip into this well all too often.)

— Foment Liberty (@FomentLiberty) November 23, 2020