Forty-fourth day of quarantine

     Dear Friend,

     from yesterday to today only 288 people have died of coronavirus. It is the first time that it has dropped from 300, although, they say, during the weekends, the count of unfortunate cases is less because all the people are not working and you have to wait for these to be computed on Monday or Tuesday. Either way, to myself, it is a very positive thing, because I have known this observation since the beginning of the pandemic.

     I heard this figure this morning while having breakfast. Likewise, I also heard a doctor, Ivan Moreno, speak on the radio who has lifted my mood;  and I wonder how much we would all have earned if in all countries there were more people dedicated to medicine and research with the serenity, good sense and wisdom of this man. With what frankness and naturalness he has answered the questions that the radio station journalist asked him!

     Fran, you know that I like, Saturdays and Sundays, to listen to a program that is titled ‘A vivir que son dos días'; and I find it very interesting and enjoyable at the same time.

     Mr Moreno, with amazing ease, has said that before finding a vaccine, a way will be found to treat people. He recounted the case of a man over eighty years old, sick with this virus, who was treating him very differently than he would have treated him two weeks before. That in just two weeks many more things were known about this disease and that knowledge was being incorporated, day to day, to hospitals. He went on to say that the best thing that could happen to a person was, obviously, not catch it, but what if he had to catch it that he did it in the autumn (this, of course, a bit of a joke) because surely the bug would be more controlled. Very comforting and hopeful words that I have welcomed with open arms.

     23190

     Y. a.

     Mary