A 40-year-old man has been arrested this week by police in Mallorca and accused of “voluntarily” infecting 22 people with coronavirus, in a delusional “operation”.
The man, a resident of Manacor, is accused of “intentionally” infecting at least 22 people with covid-19, eight of them directly and 14 indirectly, both at his workplace and at the gym where he trained.
The reason for the arrest, according to the note released by the National Police, is that despite having symptoms and having undergone a PCR test, he continued with his normal life “without waiting for the result” or maintain “any kind of quarantine”, coming to work with a fever of more than 40 degrees, according to several of his colleagues.
Although the Government Delegation in the Balearic Islands has informed that he is accused of a crime of “injuries”, the truth is that operations like this one destroy any guarantee of the people in front of the State.
That sick people go to work is something common in Spain, because of the risk of losing their job -in fact it would be an infraction of the employer, not of the worker-, or that a person refuses to assume a certain medical treatment.
But the coronavirus allows the responsibility to be reversed: either you assume the risk of losing your job, or you will be accused of…
The note says that “at work he “coughed loudly” all over the place” [sic], pulled down his mask, while saying “I’m going to infect you all”.
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