COVID-19 Archives - Ricard Torres

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Weeknote 31 (2020)

July 31, 2020 Weeknote COVID-19 2 comments Reading time: 1 minutes

🏖 Vacations, here we go. Finally. After having to cancel my South Korean plans back in April (of which I’m still emotionally recovering) today, end of business, I’ll start my deserved three-week vacation. No flying, not traveling afar. COVID-19 has …

Weeknote 29 (2020)

July 17, 2020 Weeknote COVID-19 4 comments Reading time: 2 minutes

I wish I didn’t have to rant but you know how most people are… a bunch of ***holes 😡 Some are so dense they’re only capable of caring about themselves, and their comfort. Selfish and unconscious, incapable of living in …

Weeknote 20 (2020)

May 15, 2020 Weeknote COVID-19 Leave a comment Reading time: 2 minutes

🏃‍♂️💨 This week has come and gone very fast. So fast I forgot to write my weeknotes until Friday. For your information, Barcelona’s situation hasn’t changed much in a week. Still in lockdown without an end near ☹️ 🎮 Pokemon …

Weeknote 19 (2020)

May 8, 2020 Weeknote COVID-19 2 comments Reading time: 2 minutes

Since the lockdown has somewhat been lifted in Spain and we can start going out (for sports or walking) 1 hour a day, I would stop with my Isolation posts series. We are still a long way before we can go …

Isolation, day 49

May 1, 2020 Personal COVID-19 Leave a comment Reading time: 2 minutes

🔓 Unlocking the lockdown When the government gave the green light last Sunday to have a parent (1 not 2) have a 60 minutes walk with up to 3 children the streets of Barcelona were flooded with families breaking the …

Isolation, day 42

April 24, 2020 Personal COVID-19 2 comments Reading time: 1 minutes

🏠 🔒 Most of us are very well prepared for this. Prepared to to live through this unprecedented lockdown most of us had never experienced before. This tweet made me saw it from a different perspective, no doubt. First, because …

Isolation, day 35

April 17, 2020 Personal COVID-19 Leave a comment Reading time: 2 minutes

🥚🐰 Easter break This week was a little bit easier. Shorter. Here in Barcelona we had last Friday off all the way to Monday included. Four full days of vacation 🌴 A total shame we could not go out, the …

Isolation, day 28

April 10, 2020 Personal COVID-19 Leave a comment Reading time: 2 minutes

I’m about to lose my concept of time and space 🤪 The worst thing is I feel it’s going to be another month at least stuck at home. I don’t know, nobody knows. I have been twenty-eight days with minimum …

Isolation, day 21

April 3, 2020 Personal COVID-19 Leave a comment Reading time: 1 minutes

Not sure if I’m passed the point where the isolation has challenged me. I have found my routines and even though it sucks I think we’ll push through. 👨🏻‍💻 Working I’m lucky enough to still be working, remotely. I’m grateful …

Isolation, day 14

March 27, 2020 Personal COVID-19 2 comments Reading time: 2 minutes

💩 I will not sugarcoat it, this sucks You don’t value what you have until you lose it. In this case the freedom to roam the streets, go to the office, to the school, take the bicycle to work and …