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Ibiza and Formentera are separated by twelve nautical miles and a de-escalation phase. A wall of water now divides two states of alarm, and two quarantines, that of the north and that of the south, the federal and the democratic, the one that has hardly any cases, of which it has almost none. The one on the Illetes beach, where at noon Rocío and María bathed naked; and that of Figueretes beach, where at the same time, the National Police dismantled an organization made up of four mothers with their children, dedicated to the construction of sand castles .
Some thirty journalists embarked this morning on their way to Formentera to hunt for the most important news of the year: " A man drinks a beer ." There were not many options. The island has chosen to enter the tran-tran in this especially abnormal new normality, at twenty-five degrees, without tourists, beach bars, or hotels.
That is why phase one of the de-escalation barely left the Plaza de Sant Francesc, in the center of the town. There, the insular president, Alejandra Ferrer, planted a lectern to address humanity ; Father Michelangelo opened the doors of the temple; and Pepe Ferrer extracted ten tables from the Bar Centro, which he used to disinfect every so often from the reed bed .
Until now, to cross the bacteriological border that separated the two islands, you had to have a proof of work, fill out a health questionnaire from the Balearic Government, and another from the island government with personal data, such as cough. Now, things have become more complicated. A port police takes the temperature of each passenger. And then three toilets are doing quick tests, which turned out to be very slow .
The 7 a.m. ferry, the first of three to travel daily to the island, was unable to set sail until 8:30 a.m. Half a dozen passengers tested positive , meaning they had or had some contact with the virus, and stayed on the ground. The rest, 76, with a mask and after washing hands with gel, went on board.
The government of Formentera had not received the ministerial order until Sunday at 4:50 p.m., which should regulate phase one just seven hours later. An hour later, Alejandra Ferrer began to give a videoconference, in the style of those of the Prime Minister, but in which any neighbor could ask. Thus he spent almost two hours, which is summarized in two sentences that he repeated again yesterday in the middle of the square. "We are a little guinea pigs and we will do what we can", the first. And, " what is not expressly prohibited, is allowed ", the second.
This last message was received with some joy by the guinea pigs at the ten tables that heard it in the distance. Formentera entered phase one between coffee and toast, and arrived at noon, between canes and nudist baths in Illetas, more or less phase four .
For Marcelo, the florist, the best thing about phase one "is the noise from the street." In Jaume I, Luisa opened the ceramic shop where her great aunts lived, and now she sells flowerpots to the locals, and magnets and wind chimes to tourists. "The virus? If I get sick, I go to the doctor," he reports. On the parallel street, in the 'Bon Temps' bar, two workers from a fire systems company hug and pose for the photographers with their feat of coffee with milk: "We are famous."
Zapa is the longest serving member of civil protection on the island. He has an ice cream parlor in Es Pujols that opens at Easter, but his mission these days is to clarify doubts for passers-by. Are you going to open the ice cream parlor? "That goes, if there is no one to clarify . "
The most incomprehensible point is the beaches, especially if you miss a beach island. Alejandra Ferrer announced its unlimited opening on Sunday night, despite the fact that the ministerial order does not indicate it, perhaps to prevent the population from concentrating in the Bar Centro. First responders will start working now, but instead of preventing people from drowning, this year they will focus on preventing people from gathering .
Father Miguel Ángel is putting arrows on the benches of the chapel. Today there is a mass of eight and it is allowed a 30% capacity, about fifty arrows. These days he is involved with the Cáritas food bank. They normally served ten families. Last week there were eighty and, for this, there are 148 signed.
Until now he had given mass on Facebook with a camera installed on the altar. It was a strange plan, attached to the sacristy, because those who made the walls in 1726 did not think about the coverage of the wifi.
- Is there a saint to whom you can pray for the pandemic?
- No idea. San Roque?
- Man, if you don't know.
- I say, it is that since he died of the plague, but well, here people ask Santa Rita, and that we have no image.
A girl is rushing through the plaza. The parish priest reprimands her severely: "Hey, we have to talk, hey!" "Now, now," she says, laughing, as she continues on her way. "That one was getting married in April," he adds, shaking his head.
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