I am a doctor and during the first state of alarm, when I left the hospital one day, I brought a pulse oximeter to a friend’s home because her husband had covid pneumonia. On my way back to my house, at a police checkpoint I was questioned where I came from and I told the truth. Without giving me time to show my medical college card, I was fined. I thought it had not been processed, but in December 2021 I received an email from my bank with a receipt for 742 euros and the announcement that my account was going to be seized. I called the City Council and was notified that the fine had been sent to an address where I lived years ago and, to top it all, that the garnishment was in progress once morest the account I have in another bank. Anyway, a nonsense.
Maria Victoria Aznar Moreno. Pamplona
Velintonia as a symptom
Vicente Aleixandre’s house is auctioned, Velintonia, living history of our poetry, of the Generation of 27 and that of the postwar period, during the dictatorship and its long internal exile. Thus, there will no longer be a House of Poetry in Chamberí, because, apparently, neither the Community nor the Madrid City Council believe that the Spanish Nobel Prize deserves it. Nor, according to the mayor, does the writer Almudena Grandes deserve the recognition of her neighbors in the capital.
A society that does not really value literature or science – the house of Santiago Ramón y Cajal was also simply sold – does not respect itself. So it goes.
Luis de Luxán Meléndez. Porrúa-Llanes (Asturias)
Citizen concerns
According to some recent surveys, the problems that most concern citizens in Spain are politics, corruption, unemployment and housing. We must not forget, however, that there are people suffering from tobacco, alcohol, drugs, mistreatment, divorces, work accidents, cancer, blindness, AIDS, coronavirus, misery, anguish and depressions, among other things. For all of them, that is their greatest concern. Similarly, many people suffer from traffic accidents.
It is curious the importance that is given in the radio and television communication media to the gossip of the famous and those who want to be, compared to the one granted to reduce the misfortunes that we have every day on the streets and highways.
Julio Fernández Burgos. Alcorcón (Madrid)
Prevention measures once morest covid
If you have symptoms of coronavirus, do the antigen test yourself. If you happen to be positive, confine yourself. If your health worsens, do not go to primary care, because you can only make an appointment by phone. If you try, they won’t pick up the phone at your health center. If the symptoms of the disease worsen, avoid collapsing hospital emergencies. Madrid has the best public health in the world! Finally, if you participate in an authorized event, such as the end of the year bells or the Three Kings parade, when you are well cooked, with your tie undone and the petrina open and you do not understand what you are saying because of alcohol and the mandatory mask, do not forget to be cautious.
Jesús Bello Fernández. Alpedrete (Madrid)
