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    OBSOLETE COVID THREAD Galicia compulsory use of masks in all public areas

    I agree with the message of this thread. To personalize it, as I have said previously small villages have a lot of old people, including me, we have not been vaccinated yet. Pilgrims see me outside my home tending to my pot plants, and when I ask them to put on a mask, they challenge me, why not...
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    Toilet Paper Alternatives for Camino. . maybe?

    I live on the Camino after Sarria, so unfortunately, the first day for many new pilgrims. So, many are caught short, and toilet paper litters beside the path wherever there is a little side track. The summers are dry so it takes a long time for the paper to degrade. I wish for brown paper, so it...
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    OBSOLETE COVID THREAD COVID-19: Corona virus discussion (ROUND 8)

    More on what it's like living on the Camino. After spending 6 years offering a donativo table and a place to rest for pilgrims, I am afraid I have lost my compassion and have developed a serious anger problem, such that I don't like myself very much these days. And the cause you may well ask...
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    OBSOLETE COVID THREAD COVID-19: Corona virus discussion (ROUND 8)

    Quarantine is not only for positive cases of Covid, but also for people with symptoms awaiting tests and results, and also for contacts of positive cases.
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    OBSOLETE COVID THREAD COVID-19: Corona virus discussion (ROUND 8)

    All I can tell you is my knowledge of the Galician health service protocol, from a friend who is a doctor in an after hours health service. As explained to me, a suspected case of Covid is only transported to hospital if seriously ill (not just a fever, as was the case in Baamonde). Otherwise...
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    OBSOLETE COVID THREAD COVID-19: Corona virus discussion (ROUND 8)

    The health service and local councils only take responsibility for the transportation of people for a test who have some form of disability which means they are not independent. The European health card does not qualify a person from another European country to anything more than a Galician...
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    OBSOLETE COVID THREAD COVID-19: Corona virus discussion (ROUND 8)

    A Recent case of a pilgrim in Baamonde on the Primitivo, with a fever, highlights the problems to be faced if a pilgrim develops symptoms, and is walking completely independently with no support. In Galicia if you are unwell the protocol is to call 061 and they arrange a test. In this case the...
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    OBSOLETE COVID THREAD Galicia compulsory use of masks in all public areas

    Unfortunately, my list of grievances continues. My downstairs area is roped off, as I am shielding. The other afternoon I was laying on my bed reading, when I heard voices downstairs. I looked down to see about 10 pilgrims in my private area under my house, many without masks. I challenged them...
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    OBSOLETE COVID THREAD Galicia compulsory use of masks in all public areas

    It is a part of my frustration, the local police, Guardia Civil, are sitting safe in their offices, and ignoring the problem of non mask wearers in Portomarin, let alone venturing out to Vilacha. In other years, they can be seen on the streets, and come up the Camino several times a day. Now I...
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    OBSOLETE COVID THREAD Covid positive pilgrims arriving in SDC. (if any)

    The contact tracing service of Spain is under staffed and under resourced. I certainly know that the family who brought the Virus to the small village of Fonfria, finished the Camino in Santiago and returned to Madrid before they developed symptoms. So "how many are there arriving in Santiago...
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    OBSOLETE COVID THREAD Galicia compulsory use of masks in all public areas

    The problem is that the pilgrim who brought the virus to the little village of Fonfria has long gone. It took 2 weeks for the locals to start becoming ill. How many others has that person infected along the way. I hope who ever it is is asymptomatic, and so is unknowingly passing the virus on...
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    OBSOLETE COVID THREAD Galicia compulsory use of masks in all public areas

    IMPORTANT NEWS: There are 6 cases of the Corona virus on the Camino in a very small village, Fonfria, in the Pedrafita area. If you have passed through there in the last few days you may either be a contact, or a symptom free spreader. Here in Vilachå, 2-3 days walking away, I am having problems...
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    OBSOLETE COVID THREAD Galicia compulsory use of masks in all public areas

    Yes I am sorry to say on my observations that it is not only English speaking pilgrims ignoring the law about the compulsory use of masks, it is Spaniards as well
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    OBSOLETE COVID THREAD Galicia compulsory use of masks in all public areas

    Yes please. Thank you for your help in spreading the message
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    OBSOLETE COVID THREAD Galicia compulsory use of masks in all public areas

    You have my permission to circulate the message as widely as possible. Thank you
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