We seem to have woken up in the Middle Ages.
One confirmed case of Coronavirus in the next town was a Gitano man. So his contacts here do tend to be Gitanos too, for reasons like extended families and so on. Because of some problems with getting the message into the community there was a problem with one family not self-isolating successfully; and it's not that straightforward to get deliveries etc if you don't have credit cards or sick pay if you work as a day labourer off the system. So last night the ambulances went round with the Guardia Civil tooled up in riot vans and of course got attacked by the set-upon Gitano family in question, members of a community that have a 500 year memory of this kind of thing.
So now I'm being told that 'they' are spreading it deliberately and 'they 'all' have got it'.
One child in our primary school has been confirmed as having coronavirus. They haven't been to school since the isolation, but some of the payos (non Gitanos) are pulling their children away from their Gitano classmates and shunning the mothers. Not that they didn't before. But now they're talking about it.
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