so what data justifies applying this to the Canary Islands.
I'm not really closing that as a region. it's 1000 miles from spain!
I saw a very obvious bit of "data" that made a mockery of the whole thing in terms of distances, land mass and cases etc.
Will have to find it but it went along the lines of;
Barcelona to Tenerife 1400 miles
Barcelona to Luton 750 miles
Number of people in Tenerife 900k
Number of people in Luton 240k
Size of Tenerife 780sq mi
Size of Luton 17sq mi
Persons psq mi Tenerife 1,150
Persons psq mi Luton 11,760
Number of cases in Tenerife 1500 (or c2 psq mi)
Number of cases in Luton 1536 (or 90 psq mi)
Number of deaths Tenerife 110 (or 0.14 psq mi)
Number of deaths Luton 280 ( or 16 psq mi)
So the point being, you can gladly travel to Luton (incidentally one of the UK's supposed Covid-19 hotspots) and do some shopping, go to a pub, check your eyesight, etc. That risk is deemed less so by our government than doing the same if you travelled to Tenerife? The distances are also important, purely on that Tenerife is further from one of Spain's highest Covid-19 cities than Luton (and pretty much anywhere in the UK another 600 miles North) is.
I understand them closing off the "air bridges" for main cities in Spain but the Canaries it is nonsensical. The same applies to both the Azores and Madeira (who are both virtually covid free), yet because the FCO has removed Portugal from the "air bridge" list, these islands are also included. Yet it's ok to also travel to France and Germany without restriction.
I could also understand if it was Spain or Portugal closing the air bridge, to us. Totally but it isn't it is, yet again our Government showing how everything and I mean pretty much everything, is being planned on the back of a very unethical foie gras terrine (which also isn't great for writing clear guidelines on either).