EPIS have not been provided for the members of the tables, only face shields and a double mask that they have used all day and not only in the face of the infected
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Natalia F., a young nurse at the Puerta de Hierro Hospital in Madrid, he wore “chubasqueros del chino” to protect himself when, in the first phase of the pandemic, she and her colleagues did not have the EPIS against the virus to work with. Natalia withstood two waves of pandemic fighting in the ICU without catching it, but caught the virus in the third. In other words, his memory of fever and bed is recent, “luckily without having to hospitalize,” he says. That is why he said in the afternoon of this 4M, while distributing masks at the door of the Isabel la Católica school in Madrid: “It is not strange that many people do not come. If you are going through the covid as I did, you don’t want to go out “.
That may be one of the reasons why the very high participation that has been maintained throughout the day in key voting points such as that school, the first in district 1, that is, the pure center of the Central District of Madrid , has collapsed in the last hour of the day, the one enabled in the Madrid elections so that they can vote for the positive covid. “The covid hour”, as Natalia calls it.
The same has happened, he counted Juan Carlos, a young PSOE delegate who swarmed among the seven tables arranged in the courtyard of that Madrid school, in schools in Parla or Fuenlabrada, where throughout the day 16% and 17% more votes have been accumulated than in the autonomous communities of 2019, but that only registered a much slower drip than is usually the case in the last 60 minutes before the polls close.
Slow and calm. “Covid time? We did not know,” explained Eva, a doctor of Venezuelan origin who was opening the right to vote. On the collision, or collusion, of the right to vote that assists the sick and the right to health security that the healthy has, she provided a possible way out: “I it would have allowed voting, but at a distance “.
Natalia also has a professional opinion about allowing one hour to vote for the sick in the new normal. He admitted that there is a fundamental right of patients, but he sees an increased risk of contagion: “The danger is not only here, it is also on the way …”He warned with dozens of masks in his hands.
Intimate decision
And yet it was strange that, after the most polarized and bitter campaign in recent electoral history in Madrid, they did not dare to vote the positive covid, especially if these elections have an officially enabled time for them. But at around one o’clock in the afternoon, with the ballot box filled to more than 28%, there had not been known in any of the Madrid health centers not a single request to doctors or nurses to leave the hospital to vote, or to anyone It had occurred to him to request ambulances for these transfers, sources from the Satse and Amyts health unions assured.
The decision to go out to vote in Madrid on May 4 suffering from covid-19 has therefore been individual, not processable and, despite the tension that surrounds these elections, a choice more typical of asymptomatic inmates than of anyone who, with symptoms , hold without bedding. It has been, in any case, an intimate decision: as in the rest of the elections held in the pandemic in Euskadi, Galicia and Catalonia, no one was obliged to declare their status as infected when they arrived at the electoral college.
That is why Carmen, an Asturian student at the School of Fine Arts, distributed a “double shot” of hydroalcoholic gel to newly arrived voters. After his two masks, he told EL PERIÓDICO that if he was at the door of the Isabel la Católica school today it was “to contribute a little bit, not to make me rich,” he joked. Randstad, the temp agency that hired her for door attendant duties, has recruited her like 1,200 other assistants, at eleven euros an hour in a six-hour shift. Carmen, by the way, has not been able to go to see her parents since last Christmas.
Not two masks, but one, each policeman had on of those who were at the door of the schools of Madrid. “No PPE, just a mask,” lamented a young municipal man on the sidewalk of Beneficencia Street, enabled to hold the queue of voters until there was no queue. But come on: just like when we have to act in a flat or in a bar, what do you know if the person in front of you carries the virus? “
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And there the two have been, nurse and artist, giving gel and masks all day, dressed in a yellow vest on the back of which was read a sign that looks like a sentence: “Responsible covid.” The city grid that meets the seven tables of District 1 or Center, especially the Justicia-Chueca area, has an incidence of 608 cases per 100,000. One of the highest in Madrid
There have been no PPEs in the last hour of the election day of the Community of Madrid as there were in Catalonia. What in the Catalan elections became the moment of the special suits, in the Madrid elections it’s time for the face shield. In the 7,265 polling stations deployed in Madrid, all the presidents and members have had a double mask and a transparent mask. The use of the latter was optional, said the medical record distributed by the Electoral Board, but in a large part of the voting centers – in La Navata, for example, where he voted. Pablo Iglesias, or at the Colegio La Inmaculada de Chamberí, which I attendedsabel Diaz Ayuso– there has not been one helmet descent time: the members of the tables had already lowered them from the first hour.
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