The tourists who left behind the coronavirus return to the streets of the city. This may not be important in another city of 1.6 million inhabitants. But yes in Barcelona, where this year almost 1.5 million visitors have arrived by sea. There are still three million port visitors in each of the two years before the pandemic, but the tendency is to re-insist on the same recipe.

The echoes of the opening of the airport have not yet been turned off, and Prat is still waiting for the natural environment of Ricara not to be removed. By now, almost 31 million passengers have passed through it until September, more than double the total of 2020 confined, causing the elites to rush to 50 million COVID-19.

So far we have only talked about traffic or circulation figures, which make breathing more difficult for those of us who live here. 1,300 deaths per year would be avoided if WHO contamination levels were met. According to a study of a thousand European cities, we are the sixth city with the most deaths from nitrogen dioxide pollution. This is attributed to the transit of private vehicles and other factors such as the use of polluting energies, geographical location and infrastructure such as the port.

Once again the sea, our treasure and perhaps also part of the condemnation. Twenty-eight and a half degrees of water temperature last July, four more degrees on the same dates as the average of the last decade. Do not think it was cooler: for the first time in ten years we have chained in the city more than five months the tropical nights. The Papagayas are at home and I'm not kidding. From May 19 to the present, the minimum temperature under the moon has remained above twenty degrees for most nights.

Everything goes fast and the environment is hot. As for the number of visitors of the year, the record was recorded in 2019, with twelve million tourists who spent 33 million nights in hotels and tourist apartments in the city, taking into account only official data. The law also cheats. Now come and ask the City Hall about the fines imposed on Airbnb; savage capitalism always conquers the key to the building and statistics is back below reality.

And here we continue many, facing the planned outsourcing of the city that has seen us grow. At the beginning of the year the rental price has increased by 10%, especially after the Constitutional Court has annulled the price limit for new contracts. All this, in a city where the number of tenants is about half a million, a third of the population, and spends almost half of the average income to meet the corresponding monthly payments. Thus, it is not surprising that in 2021 Barcelona lost 15,121 inhabitants, which according to the Catalan Institute of Statistics changed municipality.

Meanwhile, in Barcelona there are 1,799 vacant homes owned by large holders, according to the Catalan Housing Agency. Most are the putresses gathered this month at the Housing Investment Congress held in the city of The District. They are praying on our heads and saying it is raining, even if the sky is clear. But don't wake up because here, sooner or later, they always turn black storms.