So the croissants have tried to fuck with spain twice now. First try tried restricting flights to spain when the quarantine to flights happened. And stated it was definitely a Political move because "movement between two countries should be as easy in one direction as it is the other", which... first of, no. That's never actually been that way, specially not during quarantines. And second, that's not how quarantine works. Reason we restricted flights is because we're currently buffing hotel and airport security alongside our hospital infrastructure and we need to fucking avoid having an outbreak before ir happens. Singling spain out and calling us out accusing us of political maneuvering is just baguettes being baguettes, which is to say assholes.
The second is when they called our measures inconsistend and proclaimed they recomended no one vacations in spain. And now, I'm the first one to laugh at spanish inconsistencies in lawmaking you know that well. But first of. Why did they claim we were inconsistent? Because our government is restricting travel (while in quarantine) yet opening our doors (the 1st if july. After quarantine ends), parenthesis added by me. I think you can see where this is going.
So the minister in charge of tourism in spain has had to make a fucking communicate explaining, really, really, fucking, slowly, and I swear she was channeling her inner disappointed mom, her tone was "professor that's having to repeat for the 20th time that 1+1=2 during a master's degree." That as the gov has repeated over and over again, the restrictions only last while we prepare logistically during lockdown, that said lockdown will lift during june, and that this is the precise reason why the 1st of july was chosen to reopen, as it is the earliest day qe can guarantee a smooth entrance. Restriction will as such have lifted BEFORE we reopen, and therefore, there is no contradiction, at least to anyone who actually thinks about it and has an IQ in the positive numbers. So apparently no one in the french government.
Jokes aside. It's obvious why Macron and Co are doing this. Tourism is an industry in France. And as with everything else, Spain is their biggest and most reliable competitor. So France wishes to throw dirt on us as they promote national tourism. And spain is also promoting national tourism so we sure as shit won't attack them for it. Issue is France isn't admitting that's what they wish to do, as they try to hide their economic pain. And as you can see us spaniards are quite opposed to such dishonest tactics, so we definitely look down on french gov for that, though we wouldn't actually be going after them necessarily because really, of course everyone knows the french are slimy, cowardly and dishonest. But throwing dirt on us? Now that's asking for a paddling. I believe so far the minister's public dressdown will be enough unless Maccaroni's team keeps pressing. If they do we'll see how that goes. But it sure will be fun!