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The Duran’s Alex Christoforou and Editor-in-Chief Alexander Mercouris discuss how the pandemic crisis that is set to break apart the European Union. Spain’s Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez recently stated that the ‘EU either responds with unwavering solidarity or our the union fails.’
By Robert Stevens | WSWS | April 3, 2020
European countries, including Spain and the UK, announced record-high daily coronavirus death tolls Thursday. With the 4,199 new deaths yesterday, 37,864 have already perished in Europe. There have been more than 521,000 cases of COVID-19 infections on the continent including 33,661 new cases.
In Spain, 950 died—the third consecutive day of a record high.
YouTube has lots of videos about La Nueve-- but none of them are in English. The one above is a trailer for the film La Nueve, also in Spanish, its plot described in English tritely: "Manuel loses most of his family during Hitler's bombing in Spain and sends his daughter to Paris to save her. After defeat and exile, Manuel joins the Ninth Company, 'La Nueve,' in a desperate struggle to free Europe from Nazism and reunite with his daughter." There is however a book, La Nueve-- The Spanish Republicans Who Liberated Paris-- by Evelyn Mesquida and translated into English by Paul Sharkey.
A couple of weeks ago I visited my doctor at the cancer hospital she works in. The policy there has always been to not admit anyone with infectious diseases. The hospital just cares for cancer patients and is also a major research center for cancer cures. A huge number of patients are immune-compromised and any kind of infection could be a death sentence. During our chat, she told me that doctors there had been asked-- I didn't ask by who but I assumed it was a government entity-- to start wrapping their heads around ceasing to treat elderly cancer patients. I think she said 60 or 65.
It was dusk. Out of a cave, black clouds of bats were coming out: thick. The fading sun skipped on their velvety wings. It was beautiful. The bats faded into darkness, on their way, on the hunt: tiny knights of nature carrying a deadly weapon about to cure humanity of its follies and arrogance. Their weapon of choice was called COVID-19. A new era had begun. Things would never again be quite the same.
Respect nature or pay the ultimate price
Spain has joined Italy as the second EU country to impose an unprecedented nationwide lockdown – in an attempt to slow down the spread of the deadly coronavirus.
Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez (pictured above) announced the move at a news conference on Saturday, and confirmed that passenger air travel is now restricted.
