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A santafesino in Madrid told how the first day of mistrust was lived:: El Litoral – News – Santa Fe – Argentina

Daniel Mendoza was in Europe for personal reasons. Unlike many Santa Fe residents who were stranded in different parts of the world, he does not seek to be repatriated, but to continue his scheduled journey to Portugal. The pandemic stopped him in Madrid and told El Litoral how he lived on the first day of “lack of confinement”, after six weeks of strict mandatory isolation.

Daniel Mendoza, witness of the end of the isolation in Spain A Santa Fe in Madrid told how the first day of mistrust was lived Daniel Mendoza was in Europe for personal reasons. Unlike many Santa Fe residents who were stranded in different parts of the world, he does not seek to be repatriated, but to continue his scheduled journey to Portugal. The pandemic stopped him in Madrid and told El Litoral how he lived on the first day of “lack of confinement”, after six weeks of strict mandatory isolation. Daniel Mendoza was in Europe for personal reasons. Unlike many Santa Fe residents who were stranded in different parts of the world, he does not seek to be repatriated, but to continue his scheduled journey to Portugal. The pandemic stopped him in Madrid and told El Litoral how he lived on the first day of “lack of confinement”, after six weeks of strict mandatory isolation.

They lent him an apartment that is usually rented through Airbnb. It was unoccupied and would remain so, since there were no tourists due to the pandemic. So Daniel, who circumstantially was in Madrid -I walk to Lisbon- was confined and “the truth was that they were quite intense days”, as he related. “In confinement sometimes you get overwhelmed, but I spent watching series, reading, cooking …”, he recalled.

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As of this Saturday, the Spanish have a daily hour of leisure “for recreation and sports” of their choice within two time zones, from 8 to 10 or from 20 to 23, only for people up to sixty years of age; There is another schedule for children with their parents and a third for older adults, to avoid crowds. “You went to the supermarket and, when you returned, the policeman on the corner asked you for your ticket to see if it was true that you went out to shop… and today was the first day that we were able to go out freely, and the feeling was incredible, to go out suddenly in the open air, the feeling of freedom is indescribable ”, he explained. “People celebrated, there was a very nice energy on the street,” he said, acknowledging that before he was not aware that he could go out freely. “Now, you value this,” said Daniel.

“As an experience it is incredible,” he admitted: “It is like a movie, the deaths were many, much chaos, desperate people, empty supermarkets … I remembered 2001 or the 2003 flood.”

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And, regarding these crises, he said that “we are more used to reinventing ourselves and moving on” and that although Spain belongs to the “first world”, “people are not used to crisis and did not know how to react, there are people who are very paranoid; here is a whole generation that has not lived through the Civil War or any major crisis, it is people up to 45 years of age ”.

“I took it well, very calm, the situation was not the best and seeing so many people die … but the fact of being Argentine and being so used to the cyclical constant that we are fine for a while and then no, one sees things in a different way, but here the people were very, very depressed, they totally dislocated them all, ”reflected the santafesino. And he confessed that when he saw the first days “the empty supermarkets and the people fighting” he thought that “we have a mistaken idea of ​​what the first world is”: “there are many myths that one as a Latin American has, here people were fighting for a toilet paper, in Madrid, one of the most important cities in Europe, I saw it ”, he admitted.

“I heard people saying” so much that we talk about underdeveloped countries and we react worse than they do, “he said. “People here,” he added, “are amazed at how the Government of Argentina reacted. Here, the government did not react and privileged the economic aspects to people, and today there are 25,000 deaths in fifty days; while in the newscasts they name Argentina as an example, even President Pedro Sánchez made reference to the model of Argentina in one of his speeches ”.

“From this there will also be a break, one idealizes but in reality you are from Europe or you are from Latin America, we are human beings and we all react the same”, concluded Daniel.

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