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Sunday, March 29, 2020

Thoughts from Pontevedra, Galicia, Spain: 29.3.20

Spanish life is not always likeable but it is compellingly loveable.   
  - Christopher Howse: A Pilgrim in Spain*

Note: This post is later than usual because, when one doesn't have deadlines - e. g. getting to a café in town for coffee and churros by 11 or 11.30 - time just eats itself and you find, for example, that by 12 new time/11 old time, you haven't even read a newspaper yet. Or even Lenox's Business Over Tapas of last Thursday morning! This makes for a shorter post, of course.

The Coronavirus: A Less Negative Take
Life in the Time of Something Like Cholera
  • The screw is turned further: Spain is taking ‘extraordinarily tough’ measures to battle coronavirus by ordering the entire nation’s workers to stay at home – except for those in ‘essential’ services. See here on this.
  • A nice tale of a grandfather.
  • Geek heaven or a harsh reality? Or both, says Giles Brown here.
  • María's Chronicle Day 14
The USA  
  • Trump’s fantasy world is literally killing people.
  • Those crazy but powerful science-denying evangelicals.
  • Dreadful American exceptionalism again
  • Summing up for the Prosecution: The Trump administration has proven itself to be inept, criminally so, by causing hundreds (and soon, thousands) of American citizens to die as a result of its bungled response. A combination of the president’s delusion, complicity by members of his cabinet and government, and blind, unrelenting loyalty by his supporters are causing a human catastrophe. Even now, weeks after it has become clear what this virus is and what is at stake, the Trump administration continues to lie, obfuscate and delay, swirling in a cauldron of denial and incapacity to act responsibly, swiftly and effectively.
Spanish
  • Phrase of the day:- El paraiso de los frikis: Geek heaven. 
Finally . . .  
  • Just too good not to include:-
  • My younger daughter posted a 2nd vlog yesterday . . . Drying my laundry in a small place. Might interest some. I confirm her previous method was a bloody nuisance for anyone trying to get in or out of the back door.
  • I've just realised that wine o'clock in now arriving an hour earlier, as it's suddenly close to 13.00 . . .

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