From La Calle to Confinement: Life In Spain During the Coronavirus

Marc Oakley
5 min readApr 10, 2020
Roadblock in Spain’s Catalonia region.

It began with a raspy dry cough, followed by a fever and crippling muscle pain which left his five-year-old son unable to walk. Shortly after, his wife felt a stabbing pain in her throat, which morphed into a two-day long intense fever, coupled with muscular pains and diarrhea.

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Marc Oakley

Shepherd of words. Wrangler of turds. Toddler survivor. Writer for #The Ascent and #The Riff. Ambassador of Hope at THE WALLOBOOKS PROJECT. marcoakley.com