"To you, Unionist", an open letter by Paco Martínez (English translation)

What Spain seems incapable of understanding is why so many Catalans who support independence are not Catalan-born. Paco Martinez, who came to live in Catalonia decades ago, expresses his views very clearly here.

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Davictus-1

David Fernàndez (not to be confused with the former CUP MP and journalist) hammers home a clear message: Spaniards, you let Fascism act in Catalonia - without a word of complaint - to try and stop a completely peaceful, democratic independence movement. So don't expect our support now!
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Orwell, the Spanish Civil War and propaganda

"...Early in life I have noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper, but in Spain, for the first time, I saw newspaper reports which did not bear any relation to the facts, not even the relationship which is implied in an ordinary lie. I saw great battles reported where there had been no fighting, and complete silence where hundreds of men had been killed. I saw troops who had fought bravely denounced as cowards and traitors, and others who had never seen a shot fired hailed as the heroes of imaginary victories; and I saw newspapers in London retailing these lies and eager intellectuals building emotional superstructures over events that had never happened. I saw, in fact, history being written not in terms of what happened but of what ought to have happened according to various ‘party lines’..."

Fonts estadístiques, gràfics i mapes sobre el Covid-19

Fonts sobre Catalunya, Espanya, i Europa i del món.
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Una epidèmia, a Bizanci (fa un temps...)

La professora Montserrat Camps Gaset (UB) m'ha passat la seva traducció d'aquest extracte d'un text de PROCOPI: HISTÒRIA DE LES GUERRES II, 22-23

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Oriol Mitjà warned about the Covid-19 virus very clearly, on 15 FEB (in Catalan/Spanish) / Oriol Mitjà alertava sobre el Covid-19, molt clarament (15 FEB 2020)

Extractes de la seva intervenció al FAQs de TV3, en català. Versión en español de los principales aspectos de su intervención.
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Article del Doctor Lu Xiang (Xina, 28 MAR 2020)

"First Person: Heartbreak and hope – one doctor’s story from China’s coronavirus ground zero". Traducció al català.
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Municipis on s'estan anunciant establiments amb servei a domicili (28 MAR 2020)

Aquí hi ha una primera llista de webs que he trobat amb les paraules "servei a domicili a". Afegiré la informació (URL) que passeu per Twitter a @mstrubell.
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A Twitter thread by Pau Castellví about his six days in hospital with Covid-19 (28 MAR 2020)

A cured patient's testimony and anguished message about Covid-19 measures.
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BÈRGAM. L'Atalanta-València (19 FEB), "una bomba biològica". Entrevista amb el Dr. Di Marco (20 MAR 2020)

El partit Atalanta Bergamasca Calcio - València celebrat al San Siro (Milà) el 19 de febrer fou decisiu per a la ràpida propagació del Covid-19 a Bergamo, quan encara hi havia poquísims casos comptabilitzats. El testimoni del Dr. Fabiano Di Marco fa feredat.
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The "Scientific Commentary" on Covid-19 measures (21 MAR 2020)

Here is an English translation of the widely reported (and hotly debated by the Spanish government; some media call it a Catalan separatist measure!) "Scientific Commentary" on measures to curb the Covid-19 pandemic in Spain. Please send me corrections (especially the authors!)
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"Comentario Científico" de 70 científicos sobre medidas Covid-19 (21 MAR 2020)

El polémico "Comentario Científico" sobre medidas que había que tomar urgentemente el 21 de marzo para evitar el colapso del sistema sanitario previsto para el día 25 de marzo.

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Coronavirus Deaths by U.S. State and Country Over Time: Daily Tracking (NYT)

Link to article in NYT "Coronavirus Deaths by U.S. State and Country Over Time: Daily Tracking" (updated daily)
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/03/21/upshot/coronavirus-deaths-by-country.html

Letter to the President of the European Council (25 MAR 2020)

Letter to the President of the European Council on Covid-19 pandemic by eight EU Member State leaders
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Strategy choice for Covid-19 pandemic. (1) Tomas Pueyo (2) Imperial College London (23 MAR 2020)

Interesting, urgent articles by (1) Tomás Pueyo and (2) the Imperial College COVID-19 Response Team on the probable consequences of several political options to cope with the pandemic.
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La "Càrrega Viral", un punt clau en la transmissió o no del Covid-19 (23 MAR 2020)

No sóc metge. Si algú diu que ho tregui ho trec. Però ens semblava a qui m'ho ha enviat des d'Anglaterra, i a mi, que el consell és molt valuós.
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"Com es va escapar el virus" (NYT, 22 MAR 2020)

"Com es va escapar el virus". Traducció de l'article "How the Virus Got Out", del NYT (22 MAR 2020). I hope the NYT doesn't mind.
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COVID-19 in Italy

Data from Italy in the first phase of the Lombardy pandemic.

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Suport d'Alcaldes al President Torra (23 MAR 2020)

Piulades d'alcaldes d'arreu de Catalunya donen suport al nostre president.
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Guillem Hernandez Solà explains the pandemia from a Chinese perspective (20 MAR 2020)

The dramatic plea by Guillem Hernandez Solà, who witnessed at first hand, as early as January, how the Chinese Community in Catalonia were getting worried about the risk of the COVI-19 virus reaching them over here, and started to take preventive action well in advance. I have translated it into English (with the author's permission), because it applies everywhere. It is dated March 20.
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