Plastic keeps virus, not love away from Spain nursing home

[jmyrlefuller]

https://apnews.com/44f9936b9678528857c20494b869579e

By EMILIO MORENATTI - June 24, 2020



Even when it comes wrapped in plastic, a hug can convey tenderness, relief, love and devotion.

The fear that gripped Agustina Cañamero during the 102 days she and her 84-year-old husband spent physically separated during Spain’s coronavirus outbreak dissolved the moment the couple embraced through a screen of plastic film.

Pascual Pérez, her husband, lives at a nursing home in Barcelona, one of the many that locked out visitors to try to shield their residents as the coronavirus killed so many elderly Spaniards.

Cañamero, 81, stayed during the country’s nationwide lockdown at the home she and Pérez used to share. During their 59 years of marriage, the couple had never spent so many days apart.

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[libertybele]

Thanks for the post @jmyrlefuller   those embraces probably did more good for their health than any drug.