Good news this morning about loosening of several restrictions in Argentina, the most exciting of which is that masks are no longer mandatory outside – yayy! Well, we still have to wear them where there are large crowds of people and on the buses, but just walking along the street breathing the air without a mask will be wonderful! I wasn’t going to go out today, but I will now just to see how it feels!

Milongas are all free to open now (those that haven’t gone out of business of course), but with protocols. Lesser capacity and still with masks — and proof of vaccination, which cuts me out until I can get the elusive second dose!

But it’s all very promising — maybe there is an end to this plague after all.