A picture of children wearing a kind of hoop around their waist is spread and people get excited about it - without even knowing the background.
Always surprising to us: people who describe themselves as particularly critical and free-thinking (often also “lateral thinking”) share images uncritically and without even thinking, the origin or meaning of which they do not know at all, just to feed their own narrative currently the picture with children carrying some kind of tire.
The image first appeared in Spain and is now spreading here too:
“Without words” is a protective claim in this case, because the disseminators probably don’t even know the context in which the picture was taken and are therefore without words for a good reason.
Why do the children wear tires?
Of course, they're not wearing real tires in the picture, but rather inflatable swimming rings, like the ones you on Amazon , so they're not particularly heavy.
As already mentioned above, the photo first spread in Spain, because that's where it comes from: A Coruña in Spain. Parents there are also worried that their children could become infected with SARS-CoV-2 at school.
That's why it was claimed for the first time in Spain that children will now have to wear such tires to school in order to maintain the necessary safety distance. In fact, it's also about safety distances when it comes to swimming rings, but the rest of the claim is false.
The photo was taken in September 2020 in Arzúa, a town in A Coruña, where an educational project by an architectural firm called “A vila do amanhã” (“The Village of Tomorrow”) is underway ( their homepage HERE ).
There is also a photo of those children on the project's Instagram profile:
Check out this post on Instagram
The aim of the project: Through play, children should develop an awareness of all common standards: architecture, cultural heritage, urbanism and landscape. And in the game in the photo the game was: How many are one and a half meters?
To do this, Sandra González, creator and leader of the project, took some children out on the streets so that they would have a clearer idea of the distance they should keep and the difficulties that may exist in maintaining a safe distance in some areas .
For the architect responsible for the “Village for Tomorrow”, the children's play was also enlightening, as it made it visually visible not only to the children but also to him how difficult it is to maintain a safe distance in Spain's narrow streets.
Summary
No, the children don't have to go to school with tires around their waists. The picture was created as part of an initiative by an architectural firm, in which the game made it clear to children in a playful way how large a safe distance should be from others.
In our opinion, it's a great idea to show this to children... and it's certainly a lot of fun for the little ones to play “bumper cars”.
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Additional source: Observador.pt
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