Diario de la alarma

"If I think I have learned something from all this, it is that the human condition will not change in a sensible way, as it did not, according to the testimony of the ancients after other similar episodes. However, one would have to be very blind not to see that This crisis has exposed many of the seams of our world. Human beings will continue to be more or less what they were, but in a different world. Better or worse, it depends in part on us". Since the state of alarm was declared due to the global health crisis of COVID-19, Lorenzo Silva has been writing day after day, until reaching fifty, a newspaper in which he reflected the situation of our country and its people during the lockdown. With its lucid, incisive and literary gaze, this is a unique testimony, an observation journal, of the early days of a pandemic that has already changed us forever as a society and as individuals. In a reflective and profound text, which does not elude light hinting, irony or evasion, Lorenzo Silva makes use of his readings and the experiences of any ordinary citizen subjected to confinement, but also of the crude and sacrificial stories that They come from those who are on the front line of the fight against the disease, to remember how we are and to sketch an inventory of everything that the virus has revealed to us and we should never forget.