24. The key is the front door
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front door to the street. That may be the answer. I have been wondering, the
last few days amid coronavirus lockdown, why the UK allows its citizens to go
out to exercise, while Spain does not. The first reaction by many in Spain is
that their government is just bloody minded, but my long-term observation is
that politicians tend to avoid unpopular decisions if at all possible. It must
be something else. Could it be, I wonder, the fact that the great majority of
Britons have a front door to the outdoors, whilst most Spaniards live in
apartment blocks and therefore, the front door to the street is shared by 25-50
families, as are the elevators that will take them to street level? If you
consider how the virus propagates, negotiating your way from your 7th
floor apartment to the street is risky business, probably much riskier, in
epidemiology terms, than reaching the outdoors from your semidetached, street
level house. So here is a tip, get down to street level before the next
pandemic
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