When the State Department sent out an alert about 10 days ago warning U.S. citizens to fly home immediately or be prepared to ride it out here indefinitely, we decided to stay because we feel we are set up here, having health insurance (a requirement to get the longer-term visa we entered with), good access to food, and we are lying low. And the news from home was not so reassuring, with crowed and chaotic airports, pictures of empty store shelves, and stories of toilet paper shortages.
Holed up in Madrid, waiting it out: The coronavirus crisis on the other side of the Atlantic
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