Prudence marks the first day without masks in Malaga

It was a Saturday in Malaga as taken from the brochure of a vacation agency: the terraces of the center began to fill from early in the morning.Waiters transported trays with churros and were heard again commands in English.It is difficult to know what was more intoxicating: if the smell of fresh coffee or the luminosity of a sky as counting cities in Europe can offer.For more fortune, at night, the Eurocup returned with the first qualifiers to end several days without filming the ball.There was an element in this recovery of collective joy that continued to be part of the image of this city.At least, for now: the mask.The most visible symbol of the drama lived because of the Coronavirus resisted abandon.It is the main teaching that left this June 26, the first day without mandatory to take the uphift outdoors, since its use was imposed thirteen months ago to stop the progress of the infections."Fear" and "prudence".They were the most used words by the Malaga people who presented their reasons to continue with their mouths covered instead of returning to what was before the Coronavirus.

It is not that there was no one without a mask through the center and by the neighborhoods.Some smiles were seen again without the need to intuit them behind a piece of cloth.Only, according to what has been seen, they will continue to be a minority for the next few days or weeks.Citizens have lived very hard months and those memories continue in the heads.Reason, among others, for which it was not so easy to find testimonies of people who had chosen to breathe air that was not leaked.

One was offered by Mari Carmen Valdivia, a neighbor of El Perchel who was walking in the direction of the Cervantes Theater.«I feel a little as if I had forgotten something.Or as if he were doing something wrong.I think, psychologically, we still have much to recover, ”summed up his feelings.The feeling of a certain disbelief, so it usually happens, accompanies the end of any nightmare.

On May 20, 2020.That was the day in which the decree that ruled the mandatory use of the mask in Spain was published in the Official State Gazette in Spain.A time that has become long and eternal for many, in which it has also resulted in moods of all kinds.Raise questions to which it was not known very well if you wanted to know the answer.Is life with masks a life forever?Yesterday he showed that it will not be, but that the mask will resist falling.José Antonio García and María José Luque, a marriage of Arroyo de la Honey, explained that they are not afraid because both have the complete pattern of the vaccine, but that, in any case, it would be preferable to maintain prudence.«I think it is better to take the mask at the moment.Above all, in the places where there are many people, ”argued José Antonio."If we've been so long with the covered face, it doesn't matter to endure a little more," said his wife.

Everything that happened around the mask synthesizes many aspects of this pandemic.The initial chaos in the acquisition of the tapping.Converted into speculation objects, portrayed the hesitant and insecurity attitude that the central government showed in the initial management of the pandemic.The fight against the pathogen has had its direct effect on the way in which the tapping has been carried (or not): double or triple layer, FPP2, as an accessory on the wrist or below the chin.The mask has polarized from minute one.

To fear and prudence the contradictory messages launched from the political sphere joined this Saturday.The president of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, in the announcement of the end of the outdoor mask, offered the fall of this restriction as a new milestone on the road to normal to dry.

The president of the Junta de Andalucía, Juanma Moreno, since he knew about the decision, does not stop regretting that there is a risk of generating a "feeling of false security" and appeals to "prudence".The Minister of Presidency of the Board, Elías Bendodo, predicted this Friday that Sánchez will have to "rectify" in a short.The example that the mask also serves to make a frontal opposition was put by citizens (CS).While the number two of the party, Edmundo Bal, presumed in Malaga that his party had been the first to ask for the withdrawal of outdoor masks, the vice president of the Board, Juan Marín (CS), he calls him as “capital error".Everything, on a day in which the province registered 350 new contagios.Of course, with a decrease in the number of hospitalized that invited a certain optimism.

Although most people will opt for Saturday to continue with the masks, non -mandatory offers new challenges for daily release.One is to calibrate if the safety distance of a meter and a half can be maintained or not.Another is to identify the situations in which the use of the mask remains mandatory.The work was complicated for the security guards who watch at the entrance of the well -known clothing stores of the large franchises.In the street you can go without capptch.Inside, its use is mandatory.Now they must scrutinize each person who enters.The sanctions for skipping the rules are maintained.An infraction for not carrying the mask where it is necessary, at least 100 euros amounts to 100.

Alfonso Rosique was one of those who chose to hang it as a bracelet.He arrived at Malaga Tourist Visit, from Barcelona.After visiting the cathedral, he was going on the way to Granada Street.«I was looking forward to this moment.The mask has been a great annoyance for me, ”he said.By his age, he said, is already vaccinated with the complete pattern."You have to remain prudent, but I hope the mask does not return anymore," he said.Alfonso was an exception this Saturday, as José Enrique Carpena, a coupons seller also confirmed to this newspaper.From his post on Larios Street, he had privileged views of events: «80 percent of Spaniards continue with the mask.Those who do not carry are almost all foreigners, ”diagnosis.

In what happened this June 26 there was an objective reality.Malaga resembles any other European capital again.Spain has long been the country in which the use of the mask has been imposed with greater severity.This different assumption of the tapping was evidenced in foreign tourists who enjoy Malaga again.Practically, they all dispensed with the mask."I don't think there is a risk of infection," said Camila, British tourist, while photographed the Roman theater.

When the sun puts on, young people have several options to enjoy the afternoon: one of the favorites is Pedregalejo.The use of the mask was relativized by this promenade.Among the numerous corrillos, one that moves in the fork of the 27 to 34 years."I feel a great relief when I am without a mask, the truth," said Juan Manuel Niel, a El Palo shopkeeper.On the eve of the second day without a mask, it was clear that his disappearance will be gradually.Some will need more time than others.