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

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.

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!!