CORONAVIRUS SPAIN

So much is going on and I have to try and write it down before it all escapes me. Yesterday there was a piece in the El Pais that the army had discovered elderly people dead or dying in care homes and the careworkers had appeared to have abandoned them. The defense minister said the full weight of the law would come down on these people if it was found to be true. Then I saw the BBC do a report on this and they repeated parrot fashion what they had heard. Today it is starting to appear that these elderly people are in homes where most of the staff have fallen ill to the coronavirus leaving the homes stretched to the limit.They are often run by nuns who are elderly too. One of the nuns has since died. The director of one of the homes has appealed to the army to help. The army have gone in to disinfect the places and found the dead. On top of this the coroner, the funeral director and so on have to put on protective suits and masks when they collect the body of the deceased. Many of the care workers didn't have the best protective clothing etc, so it is no wonder they got ill. It is possible that fear made some of them abandon their posts. There is also a strict protocol that prohibits workers from  touching bodies. More of this story will come out but I didn't like the way it was reported by the BBC. It made it look like the careworkers didn't care and I am sure this is not true.