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Gisela whimpers under the mask when she imagines herself cloistered again. "I could not stand it," supposes the young woman. The first hours of the confinement are advancing, which the Generalitat reestablishes only as a suggestion in Barcelona and 12 localities around it due to outbreaks of the coronavirus. The almost full terraces of the Barceloneta beach show that the indication not to go outside is assumed as advice without the risk of reprimand.

Gisela lives in 30 square meters in front of the sea with her mother, Ester . "They can't ask us to shut ourselves up in such small flats with so much heat. And we only have to cross the street to be on the beach. I don't see any risk if we move away," opposes Ester. "At this time we couldn't even put in the towel last year. But here we should only be those from the neighborhood," says the daughter, who admits that she has seen her friends again: "I prefer to take the risk of not being alive. crazy at home. They shouldn't lock us all up because there are people without heads. "

Mid-morning matches are played on the Bogatell beach volleyball nets . Pilar and Conchita take a look. "We come thinking that we do wrong. We go in fear," they admit. Then they curse the three months of recollection.

Rosa Maria and Josep soak in the shower before leaving: "It's a bit of an exaggeration to shut ourselves up. Now fewer people come to sunbathe. The problem is those who throw parties, who don't pay any attention." "The easy thing is to confine. What you have to do is put more trackers. I am not afraid to catch it on the beach. They should go and look at the terraces, which do not meet the distances," replies Ángel . The Guàrdia Urbana sealed off access to five beaches in the afternoon due to crowds.

Reproaches

No one feels they are breaking an order that does not really exist. Some Barcelona mayors reproach the Government for inconsistency. "Is there nothing we can do? Go out less than what we already accomplished?" Asks Enric while he has breakfast on the Rambla del Poblenou : "I come every Saturday. Today I am going home. I had to go to Palamós but I will not and I don't step on the beach. A lot of people go, without a mask and going through everything. "

Magdalena shares a coffee with Leonor and Maria . He returned the ticket to travel to Mallorca on Tuesday. "Out of fear," she confesses. "It gives me respect, but La Rambla was a procession these days and fewer people are seen today," says Maria. "Many have taken advantage and have gone to second homes," deduces Leonor.

"This morning I have seen three loading the car to leave," explains Fernando while sipping a beer in Barceloneta. He is not afraid of becoming infected in a bar: "If I have to go out, I will go out. I follow the rules and I do not meet with anyone. I see a lot of chaos. "

Four steps away, the always crowded restaurants of the Juan de Borbón promenade look empty. "We were expecting 20 people on Friday and they did not come. And for this Saturday, no reservation. Measures had to be taken, but they are a disaster for us," says Pedro , from Casa Jaume, where income has fallen to a third. "On Friday we made 800 euros, when the normal would be 5,000 or 6,000 euros," acknowledges the owner of another venue. He plans to pass it on.

"We had three reservations and only one is kept," confesses Cristina in her family's business: "When the confinement ended, we had many dinners and large groups but it has declined as the news has worsened. Now we only open three days and we we have planned to close again. "

The prospects are not rosy either in a beach bar in Bogatell. "A week ago we were full at nine in the morning. Now the beach is almost empty. We have dropped from 18 to nine workers. If we continue like this, we should all leave. The box has dropped 80% and, on top of that, the Lateros take away our jobs, "complains Barbara .

Metropolitan area

Badalona closes the perimeter of the voluntary confinement north of Barcelona. Some establishments calculate that they enter between half and 80% less. "Today 15% less than usual has come. What they ask us seems to me a lack of absolute freedom and leads us to ruin. I had to postpone 6,000 euros in debt to November," says the owner of a downtown bar. Màgic Badalona shopping center, where the tables are occupied at lunchtime. In one sits Pedro . He survived the virus after 40 days when they came to intubate him in the ICU: "I go with great caution and I leave just right. Today only because I had promised my grandchildren that we would come."

María Gracia looks at the blackboard of a restaurant with her husband, Benjamín . "We wanted to come before they lock us up again," they predict. She is a nurse at the Can Ruti Hospital in Badalona. She talks about the days when she turned her face so that the patients would not see her cry: "They asked us to shake hands because they were alone. Those who do not comply should have seen it. They cause me pain. We are going to return to all that."

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