And 15 minutes after 7:00 p.m., Irene Alberola couldn't take it anymore.
President of one of the nine months of the Barcelona public institute
Moisès Broggi
, asthmatic and with her mother, a cancer patient, as a partner, she exploded when a representative wanted to immortalize the stamp of the EPI suits with his mobile phone.
"As if that weren't enough, they come here to laugh at us."
The time slot in which it was advised to vote for those infected by Covid, those suspected of being infected, and close contacts arrived.
And nobody really knew what to do.
The school's health officer sent a member a graphic by
.
It is done.
«I had to use a YouTube video to find out how I should put on the suit.
This is a shame, ”Irene continued as she adjusted the protective glasses provided in the kit, along with the gloves - they were recommended to wear two at that time - and the double mask, surgical and FPP2.
"These suits should be for health workers, not for this," continued this president, who had to see how during the morning a
voter reached the table without a mask
.
And he went through the whole school without anyone telling him anything.
I had to be the one to ask him why he wasn't wearing it.
And he answered: 'Sometimes I wear it, sometimes I don't.
Is incredible".
In that last hour destined for the voters in quarantine, there was hardly any movement in some polling stations in which there were only
PPE suits
for the members of the polling stations, for the person in charge of disinfection, and for the two agents of the Mossos d 'Esquadra destined - although they would only wear them in case of performance.
There was no PPE for the attorneys, or for the volunteers and members of the administration.
Not even for the health officer of each electoral college.
All of them, however, remained inside the center.
The outrage among the table members had already started first thing in the morning.
Alfredo Álvarez was shaking his head as he waited for one of the members of the Broggi administration to say his name.
I must not be here.
I can't be here.
I do not want to be here.
Why do I have to face the virus?
Alfredo is 42 years old.
Also a
chronic bronchitis
.
And psoriasis.
«I have the fingers of my hands open.
I don't know how they think I can wear gloves.
It's the most surreal thing I've ever seen.
He is second alternate vowel.
His was one of the 34,000 allegations presented to be absent from election day.
And one of the 12,000 denied.
"They did not accept my complaint because they said that if I can leave my two-year-old daughter with my wife, even though she also has asthma and can infect her, I must come."
Alfredo was not cleared to leave until his table was set up at ten in the morning, an hour later than planned.
No one knew where the articles of association had been kept.
But I've already been in here for two hours.
And he shouldn't.
One of the first surprises that the presidents and members encountered was the
absence of screens in
front of the tables.
"But it is that they tell me that there are not in the electoral colleges of Barcelona because they were not mandatory," the health officer apologized.
Kits arrive in a box.
There are some goggles and protective screens for the three members of the table.
Robes
Gloves.
The EPI suit.
Itziar, another of the presidents, does not know what to do with everything.
«If I put on the screen I see absolutely nothing.
And I have to see the voter's ID.
So he ends up taking it off.
The DNIs, as reported by the Generalitat, had to be deposited by voters on trays.
There was no trace of them on the Broggi.
The solution was to use
ballot box lids
.
Improvisation was imposed.
Although sometimes it was impossible.
The separation of tables of two meters was not always fulfilled.
Of course, the windows were wide open, without heating, and the person in charge of cleaning, Sanytol in hand, did what she could.
“They haven't told me when to clean.
I disinfect a bit what I think.
Of course, look at the bottles of hydroalcoholic gel.
Almost all full and I've been here four hours now.
A common concern among the members of the tables was the tests carried out.
Carla Menchán, a 19-year-old biology student and substitute on election day, was clear: «I took the
antigen test
.
But since it is only a recommendation, not an obligation, there are tables here that have not been tested.
And you share more than 12 hours ».
Claudia Álvarez, another of the Broggi table presidents, was asked to take the test last Tuesday.
"And it's been five days now. Hasn't there been enough time to have infected me? And no one is going to test me tomorrow?
"And there are people here who seem to like all this very funny". President Alberola, stuffed into her PPE, is already exhausted.
He still has to deliver the votes to the police authority.
The attorneys, at his side, continue carefree with their gathering.
And with your photos.
That futuristic painting by Goya could not escape them.
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