Extracted from La Nueva España, 22 may 2020.
The researchers organize a staggered return to face-to-face work, with restricted access and limited residence times.
Sara Sáez and Manuel Rendueles, in a laboratory of the Faculty of Chemistry (Image taken from La Nueva España)
While longing for their old interrupted normality, researchers at the University of Oviedo have de-escalated this week towards a ‘rare normality’. They are stepping back into the laboratory more than two months later, and that is already a lot, but the pandemic has made decisions and imposed its own conditions: shifts of access and staggered entry to their workplaces, limited capacity and distance, estimated intervals of permanence and a feeling of rebooting the system, of having to start over, which in some cases already leads to suspect that the usual rate of progress of projects will take time to return. The braking was dry, abrupt, from one day to the next and with almost no time to collect the material, but starting and recovering forward speed ‘takes time’.
