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It's been one week since the emergency state was declared. I think that I'm starting to normalize to be at home almost all day. Today I wake up at 8 am and, as I always do, I put the radio. After 1 hour of news and more news about coronavirus they interviewed one guy who had run 61 Km in his small livingroom. Just 10 and half steps was the distance in that he made this race. And of course he is a profesional athlete used to run marathons, triathlons and other stuff like this. But he give me an idea. The longuest distane that I can do in my small home is similar, only 13 steps. So yeah, I put on my running shoes and I started to run. OF course I haven't done 61 Km. I've just done one hour, but for me it'ss okay.
The important thing is to find things to do at home, because this situation seems that has arrived to stay.

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Differences between countries in the implement of the confinement.

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Differences between countries in the implement of the confinement.

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In the world there are different strategies to fight the Coronavirus pandemic. The first country In apply the confinement was China in January. They implanted a total confinement of his population in the province of Hubei. There was no possibility to go out even for go to the supermarket or to work. Only strategic companies kept open. It was a major restriction.

After January Coronavirus expanded rapidly in Europe, and Italy was the first country to declare the state of emergency. First in the northern provinces of Lombardy and Veneto and after in all the country. The restrictions are not as China because citizens can go out to the supermarket, the pharmacy, to do some exercise near home and to go out with the pet. A similar thing is that since 23th of march only strategic or basic industries still open.

In Spain the situation is similar to Italy. Here we have a lot of companies still open but there are major restriction for citizens; there is no possibility to do some exercises out door and to go out with someone.

There is a long list of states that had implemented the confinement of their citizens with more or less severity; France, Denmark, Belgium, Norway, Sloven, El Salvador, Argentina, Peru, Rwanda, Jordan, Lebanon, Poland, Grecce, New Zeland, Malaysia, Australia, United Kingdom, and Dominican Republic. Other countries are very close to implement the confinement, but they have not done yet. Countries like United States, Mexico, Germany Ireland or India.

One different strategy was the strategy defended by Boris Johnson. His initial idea was to not close the economy and not implement the confinement of their citizens. The idea was to have a “controlled” expansion of the pandemic and to build a herd immunity. Their principal argument for this strategy was that even implementing confinement the pandemic will growth, and that economy is too much important to send the people at home and paralyse almost all the country. Also, they defended that would send at home all the population considered in risk and all the population affected by Coronavirus. Netherlands had a similar approach to the problem but both of them has changed the strategy to avoid an overwhelmed health system and high toll of deaths.

There are other countries with a similar approach to the problem. One of them is Sweden.

I think that the better strategy is a balance between restrictions and economy. Major restriction like close all companies and paralyse all the country can carry very negative economic affects. The world economy will start a great crisis and is important no forget that.
Sources: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/23/swedish-pm-warned-russian-roulette-covid-19-strategy-herd-immunity
https://www.elperiodico.com/es/sanidad/20200322/parecidos-diferencias-confinamiento-coronavirus-paises-7899701
https://www.economiadigital.es/politica-y-sociedad/cuarentena-por-coronavirus-en-que-paises-se-ha-declarado-el-confinamiento_20046621_102.html

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Today I read an article about some President Trump declarations. In these declarations he says that Republicans would never again been re-elected if they made easier to vote. And I think he is right. In USA the barriers to vote are high and there is a lot of people who can't vote and a lot of people who could but don't vote.
Usually is people from minorities and the most underprivileged who suffer these limitations. The different states stablish different measures "designed to suppress the vote", like the necessity to be registered, the amount of documentation that you are required, and an ID photo. And some states are very strict whit that.
some states like Georgia are approving very complicated voting requirements in a very strictly way. That means tan tens of thousands of persons are getting out of the elections. In 2016 only "64 percent of Americans who where eligible to vote were registered". In comparison, United Kingdom had 91 percent.
There are other barriers. In USA, the people in jail doesn't have the right to vote, and there are only 15 states that automatically restore voting rights once they are released and again in society.
There just two states who allow to vote while you are in jail. Maine and Vermont. But is interesting to know that these two states are states where most of the prisoners are white. And this, is very unusual in USA.
Sources:  https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/mar/30/trump-republican-party-voting-reform-coronavirus
https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/11/05/why-is-it-so-hard-to-vote-in-america/
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/06/prisoners-in-just-two-states-can-vote-heres-why-few-do/

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Donald Trump admitted on Monday that making it easier to vote in America would hurt the Republican party.

The president made the comments as he dismissed a Democratic-led push for reforms such as vote-by-mail, same-day registration and early voting as states seek to safely run elections amid the Covid-19 pandemic. Democrats had proposed the measures as part of the coronavirus stimulus. They ultimately were not included in the $2.2tn final package, which included only $400m to states to help them run elections.
Coronavirus upends US election cycle as officials scramble to protect voters
"The things they had in there were crazy. They had things, levels of voting that if you'd ever agreed to it, you'd never have a Republican elected in this country again," Trump said during an appearance on Fox & Friends. "They had things in there about election days and what you do and all sorts of clawbacks. They had things that were just totally crazy and had nothing to do with workers that lost their jobs and companies that we have to save."

Democrats often accuse Republicans of deliberately making it hard to vote in order to keep minorities, immigrants, young people and other groups from the polls. And Republicans often say they oppose voting reforms because of concerns of voter fraud - which is extremely rare - or concerns over having the federal government run elections. But Trump's remarks reveal how at least some Republicans have long understood voting barriers to be a necessary part of their political self-preservation.

"I don't want everybody to vote," Paul Weyrich, an influential conservative activist, said in 1980. "As a matter of fact, our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down."

Trump's Monday comments showed he saw voter suppression as part of his re-election strategy, the Democratic National Committee (DNC) said in a statement Monday. "Ensuring that Americans can vote during the Covid-19 crisis is fundamental to maintaining our democracy. It is shocking that Trump is essentially admitting that when the American people vote, Republican lose," said Xochitl Hinojosa, a DNC spokeswoman. "Trump knows that suppressing the vote is the only way he and Republicans win in November."

Shortly after he was elected, Trump falsely claimed he would have won the popular vote had it not been for millions of illegal votes. There is no credible evidence to support the claim. In December, a Trump campaign aide was recorded saying: "Traditionally it's always been Republicans suppressing votes in places." The aide later told the Associated Press he was saying that Republicans have traditionally been accused of voter suppression.

The $400m that Congress allocated so far is just a small fraction of what the Brennan Center for Justice estimated election officials need to run elections in November if coronavirus still lingers. Officials need that money to pay for postage, personnel and equipment to process an influx of mail-in ballots.

The urgency of getting election officials those resources should not be lost in the political fighting, said Myrna Perez, director of the Brennan Center's voting rights and elections program.

"What cannot be lost in all the back and forth among politicians is that election administrators at the state and local level need substantial resources now to ensure that the elections in November go off smoothly and safely," she said.
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Trump says Republicans would 'never' be elected again if it was easier to vote

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Donald Trump admitted on Monday that making it easier to vote in America would hurt the Republican party. The president made the comments as he dismissed a Democratic-led push for reforms such as vote-by-mail, same-day registration and early voting as states seek to safely run elections amid the Covid-19 pandemic.

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In the last days we have seen how India, the most inhabited country in the world is dealing with confinement. There, the government of prime minister Narendra Modi established a total confinement. That means shops, factories and restaurants are closed.
But the thing is how poor countries are dealing with the economic consequences to be confined at home. For the people in the “not developed” countries to be at home is not even a choice a lot of times. In India millions of workers are daily wage workers with a “hand-to-mout” existence”. That mean that day live day to day, without any saves and possibilities to stay for long without work. Also millions of workers are from small villages and now they have to return in a long walking travel that can last several days.

Of course, other problem are the homes. While millions of families are living in a one or two rooms homes there are millions that they are directly homeless and nowhere to go.

This situation is similar in other “not developed” countries and high percents of poor populations living with the minimum. In Egypt, for example, they have a huge informal work sector. And now with the confinement millions of these informal workers are without any income and without saves and possibilities to resist for long to stay at home.

So, the contrast with the western countries is huge. The reals ones who will suffer the coronavirus crisis will be, as always has been, the most underprivileged part of our world.

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Mamta looked out at the road ahead, barely visible in the night, and a dark thought crossed her mind: what if she and her family could not make the journey back to their village? What if her four children, including her eight-year-old disabled son, Sumit, heavy in her arms, died here on the side of the road?

"The road seemed endless, we had no money for food and my children just took short breaks sleeping on the ground," she said. But gritting her teeth and pushing hunger and exhaustion away, Mamta kept on walking.

It would take her six-person family almost five days on foot to make the 125-mile journey from Gurgaon, a satellite city to the capital, Delhi, to their village, Sidamai in Uttar Pradesh, as part of an exodus of millions of migrant workers and families last week unlike anything seen in India since partition.

It followed the announcement last Tuesday night by the prime minister, Narendra Modi, that for the next 21 days the entire country of 1.3 billion people would be under lockdown to prevent the spread of coronavirus. Shops, factories and restaurants would all be shut and people would be confined to their homes for all but essential activities.

While it was met with approval by experts and health professionals, the lockdown has already proved catastrophic for India's millions of migrant and daily wage workers, who earn their salary hundreds or sometimes thousands of miles away from home and live a hand-to-mouth existence.

With no way to earn money and feed their families for at least three weeks, millions decided last week to head back to their villages in order to survive.

With trains and most buses suspended and taxis unaffordable, walking was the only option for many, and the sides of the highways were soon lined with people, bags slung over their shoulders, many with nothing but flip-flops on their feet. More than 20 migrant labourers have died over the past few days as they try to walk back home.

Mamta, 35, and her husband, both workers at automobile factories in Gurgaon that were shut during the lockdown, suddenly found themselves without a salary and no way to pay their rent or to buy food.

"To survive, we had to go back to my village; we had no choice," she said. She described the five days that the family walked, starting out on Wednesday evening and finally arriving in Sidamai on Sunday afternoon, as "more terrible than anything I ever could have imagined".

They had nothing to eat except a dozen puri, fried Indian bread, that she had prepared with leftover flour before they left. The children wore through their shoes and their legs swelled up, meaning they often burst into tears out of pain. The family walked through the night, only stopping for short one-hour breaks.

"The only thing that kept us moving was that we had nowhere else to go," said Mamta. "But even though we have arrived in the village we have no money for food. I don't know how we will survive. Hunger will kill us before coronavirus does."

'There was so much violence'

Fulendra Kumar is among those migrant workers still walking. He set out last Sunday from the industrial city of Ludhiana in Punjab and has already walked 750 miles over the past week to reach Bihar, but still has another 200 to go before his final destination: the village of Araria.

"I worked in a snack factory in Ludhiana, but after lockdown the factory closed down and we faced starvation as we didn't have enough money," said Kumar, speaking as he took a rest in the city of Patna.

Over the weekend, there were similar scenes of chaos at Delhi's Anand Vihar bus station, as hundreds of thousands of migrant workers gathered in an attempt to get on one of the limited buses still running. The crush of human bodies was the antithesis of the social distancing ordered by Modi, and the police responded by beating up workers who tried to board the buses.

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Crowds try to board buses out of the capital, Delhi. Photograph: Getty Images

Among them was Rama, 45, a daily wage worker who usually polishes office floors, who was attempting to get back to his home village of Gorapur in Andhra Pradesh.

"My work has totally stopped so I have no money to survive and I have not eaten since yesterday, so that is why I needed to go back," said Rama. "But I was not the only one. The bus station was full of people like me, desperate to get out, and it was like hell.

"There were crowds and everyone was being crushed and pulling each other out of the way, there was so much violence and police were charging at us with lathis [wooden rods]."

He added: "For buses that had seats [for] 100 people, 200 people would be trying to cram in, people were sitting on top of the bus and hanging out of the windows. We were all desperate to leave because we cannot survive in Delhi under this lockdown."

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The daughter of a migrant worker sleeps on the road near India's capital. Photograph: Adnan Abidi/Reuters

The crammed mass of people at Delhi's bus stations and widespread migration of people across states and borders over the past few days has horrified India, both in terms of the hardships foisted on the already impoverished migrant workers and because it can only worsen the spread of coronavirus.

Currently there are about 1,000 known caseshere, but testing remains low, and many suspect the real figure to be much higher. In a bid to stop people moving, on Sunday night the government ordered all state borders to be closed, and police began arresting those walking on the highways or who reached state borders on foot. Many migrants who did reach the Utter Pradesh border were also hosed down with a chemical solution by police.

In an effort to house the tens of thousand of returning migrants, schoolhouses and government buildings have now been turned into quarantine centres across the country. But in some places the situation has turned violent.

Last week, a 50-year-old shopkeeper was killed by a group of four migrant workers at Chak-Udaipur village in Jharkhand's Palamu district. "The shopkeeper had objected to free movement by the migrant workers in the village but they turned furious and killed him," said Palamu district's superintendent, Ajay Linda.

Migrant workers who have made it to their villages have often found they are no longer welcome. In several villages in Bihar and Jharkhand, villagers put up barricades at the entry points and hung posters, warning the migrants against entering the village before a health check.

"We took this decision as outsiders' entry to the village could put everyone's life at risk," said Umesh Singh, 60, a schoolteacher from the village of Baniya-Yadupur in Bihar. "This is very dangerous time and we can't ignore this."
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Mamta looked out at the road ahead, barely visible in the night, and a dark thought crossed her mind: what if she and her family could not make the journey back to their village? What if her four children, including her eight-year-old disabled son, Sumit, heavy in her arms, died here on the side of the road?

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I think that now that we are in confinement and we have more time, we have to find things to be busy.

So I already read two of them and they are quite interesting. One titled “The epic, dangerous and weirdly emotional final journey of an oil rig” and the other “The Spy who couldn't spell: how the biggest heist in the history of US espionage was foiled”.

There are many topics in this long reads. They speak almost about everything. The thing that connect all of them is the detail what they use in these articles. They go all the times to the small details and facts like in a novel.

So, if you are bored with your live in confinement, here you have a good option to pass this quarantine. I know that there are many options to pass the quarantine, but remember that August recommended highly to read these “Long reads” since the beginning of our English course!!

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When a drilling platform is scheduled for destruction, it must go on a thousand-mile final journey to the breaker's yard. As one rig proved when it crashed on to the rocks of a remote Scottish island, this is always a risky business

When a drilling platform is scheduled for destruction, it must go on a thousand-mile final journey to the breaker's yard. As one rig proved when it crashed on to the rocks of a remote Scottish island, this is always a risky business

Rain is sizzling bacon: the art of sound in the movies - Jordan Kisner

Skip Lievsay is one of the most talented men in Hollywood. He has created audioscapes for Martin Scorsese and is the only sound man the Coen brothers go to. But the key to this work is more than clever effects - it is understanding the human mind

The fatal hike that became a Nazi propaganda coup - Kate Connolly

In 1936, a school group from south London went on a hike in the Black Forest. Despite the heroic rescue attempts of German villagers, five boys died. Eighty years on, locals are still asking how it happened

The spy who couldn't spell: how the biggest heist in the history of US espionage was foiled - Yudhijit Bhattacharjee

Ever since childhood, Brian Regan had been made to feel stupid because of his severe dyslexia. So he thought no one would suspect him of stealing secrets

Total recall: the people who never forget - Linda Rodriguez McRobbie

Around 60 people in the world share a condition called "highly superior autobiographical memory". They remember absolutely everything

The Batman of obscenity: one lawyer's crusade to defend extreme pornography - Edward Docx

Myles Jackman is on a mission to change Britain's obscenity laws. For him, it's more than a job, it's a moral calling

The true story of the fake US embassy in Ghana - Yepoka Yeebo

The US state department said it had uncovered a fake embassy in Accra that had been issuing a stream of forged visas. The story went viral - but all was not as it seemed.

Why can't the world's greatest minds solve the mystery of consciousness? - Oliver Burkeman

Philosophers and scientists have been at war for decades over the question of what makes human beings more than complex robots

From Game of Thrones to The Crown: the woman who turns actors into stars - Sophie Elmhirst

The casting director Nina Gold has shaped much of what we watch on film and TV. Sophie Elmhirst followed Gold through the casting process of the HBO show Chernobyl to discover what makes her the best at what she does

Bowel movement: the push to change the way you poo - Alex Blasdel

How one company seeks to upend two centuries of western orthodoxy about going to the loo

How to spot a perfect fake: the world's top art forgery detective - Samanth Subramanian

Forgeries have got so good - and so costly - that Sotheby's has brought in its own in-house fraud-busting expert

'Reality shrivels. This is your life now': 88 days trapped in bed to save a pregnancy - Katherine Heiny

Months before she was due to give birth, disaster struck for Katherine Heiny. Doctors ordered her to lie on her side in bed and not move - and gave her a 1% chance of carrying her baby to term

Fifa: the video game that changed football - Simon Parkin

Fifa belongs to a select group of titles familiar to people who have no interest in gaming - or even real football. What's the secret of its success?

Unlearning the myth of American innocence - Suzy Hansen

When she was 30, Suzy Hansen left the US for Istanbul - and began to realise that Americans will never understand their own country until they see it as the rest of the world does

The wolves of Instagram - Symeon Brown

Their hero is Jordan Belfort, their social media feeds display super-rich lifestyles. But what are these self-styled traders really selling?

The father who went undercover to find his son's killers - Matthew Bremner

After police failed to solve his son's murder, Francisco Holgado infiltrated the local criminal underworld in pursuit of those responsible. He became a national hero - but at what cost?

The foul reign of the biological clock - Moira Weigel

It seems like the concept of the biological clock has been with us forever. In fact, the metaphor was invented in the late 1970s. And it has been used to reinforce sexist ideas ever since

Why would someone steal the world's rarest water lily? - Sam Knight

An endangered plant was taken from Kew Gardens only a few years after scientists saved it from extinction. Sam Knight investigates what happens when plant obsession turns criminal

Bish-bash-bosh: how Phyllida Barlow conquered the art world at 73 - Charlotte Higgins

After overlooking her for decades, the art world has woken up to Phyllida Barlow's audacious, gargantuan sculptures. Why did it take so long for her to be "discovered"?

Has wine gone bad? - Stephen Buranyi

"Natural wine" advocates say everything about the modern industry is ethically, ecologically and aesthetically wrong - and have triggered the biggest split in the wine world for a generation

Why we fell for clean eating - Bee Wilson

The oh-so-Instagrammable food movement has been thoroughly debunked - but it shows no signs of going away. The real question is why we were so desperate to believe it

The Machiavelli of Maryland: strategist, scholar, cattle rancher - and adviser to world leaders - Thomas Meaney

Just who is Edward Luttwak? And why do very powerful people pay vast sums for his advice?

The race to build the world's first sex robot - Jenny Kleeman

The $30bn sex tech industry is about to unveil its biggest blockbuster: a $15,000 robot companion that talks, learns, and never says no

My life under armed guard - Roberto Saviano

For eight years, the journalist Roberto Saviano has faced constant threat of death for exposing the secrets of the Naples mafia in his book Gomorrah. Is the price of life under armed guard too much for a writer to pay?

The ungrateful refugee: 'We have no debt to repay' - Dina Nayeri

Dina Nayeri was just a child when she fled Iran as an asylum seeker. But as she settled into life in the US and then Europe, she became suspicious of the idea that refugees should shed their old identities and be eternally thankful

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Looking for a distraction? Here are 25 of our favourite long reads

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When a drilling platform is scheduled for destruction, it must go on a thousand-mile final journey to the breaker's yard. As one rig proved when it crashed on to the rocks of a remote Scottish island, this is always a risky business When a drilling platform is scheduled for destruction, it must go on a thousand-mile final journey to the breaker's yard.