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A Spanish government minister has called for people to “behave responsibly” as the country ends its state of emergency after people were photographed celebrating in streets across cities, AFP reports.
Images of hundreds of people marking the end of curfews and other restrictions in the streets of Madrid and Barcelona made front pages on Monday morning.
She’s been fully vaccinated for three weeks, but Francesca, a 46-year-old professor, does not plan to abandon the face mask that she’s come to view as a kind of “invisibility cloak” just yet.
“Maybe it’s because I’m a New Yorker or maybe it’s because I always feel like I have to present my best self to the world, but it has been such a relief to feel anonymous,” she said. “It’s like having a force field around me that says ‘don’t see me’.”
Julia Carrie Wong speaks to people who want to stay masked as rules relax:
Related: The people who want to keep masking: ‘It’s like an invisibility cloak’
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