This week I have had coffee in different bars of the town, as always. On Saturday, however, I have experienced a situation that had never happened to me. The waiter denied me coffee and told me to leave the tavern. Has it happened to ask for me in Basque? Because you're a woman? Because of inadequate skin color? If I had suffered one of these forms of discrimination, a journalist or a group of journalists would have called me immediately after a tweet was broadcast, behind a headline "No to discrimination" to inform me of what happened or to organize a protest.

But, on that sunny terrace on the coast of Lapurdi, I couldn’t drink coffee because “I didn’t have the health passport that the French government has just imposed,” the waiter explained to me, as uncomfortable as I was sure. This new exhibition, apparently more than a blunt denunciation, has created a general and permanent discomfort among many defenders of discrimination.

I have put coffee as an example of everyday habits, but I can talk about cinema, restaurants, transport, cultural events, workplaces (workers from different areas are obliged to get vaccinated), educational centres (if a student is positive, unvaccinated children are discarded and sent home) or many other places and activities to fuel the debate on the disbelief that thousands of citizens of Lapurdi, Xiberoa or Baxe-Navarre live. What is more, I must point out that care in hospitals will be prohibited for patients who do not have a health passport (to receive treatments, consultations...) before asking the health workers who are reading on what the Hippocrates oath remains.

I do not intend to enter here in the debate for or against the vaccine, in the contradictory consequences of scientists, in the infinite dance of data, in the tutelary strategy of silence of politicians, media and trade unions. I do not want to refer to the despicable attitudes that are taking place around all these issues, the unspeakable statements, the tagging kingdoms or the successful and painful fights of bertsolaris...Those painful issues would be lengthened and fed every day by thousands of different contributions, with the media and networks. I prefer to leave the work of judge of all these points of view in the hands of time. I will deliberately reject exclusionary and disturbing issues in order to focus readers on the substance of the matter: new discrimination, are they acceptable discrimination?

Writing these lines, from another perspective, I would like to ask the readers their opinion on the type of society that condemns us to live in full control and discriminated against millions of citizens of Euskal Herria and the world. Do you think it legitimate to suddenly lose the fundamental freedoms and rights of all citizens in the fields of work, health, mobility and social affairs? Does it make me irresponsible to want to open a debate on this? Denouncing discrimination on the street, does it make me a criminal or extreme right? Does it make me a liar, a liar, a liar, a liar, a liar, a liar, a liar, a possession of the different and conflicting information that comes to Covid-19 from different parts of the world? And isn't it normal to worry about the grim, controlled society that we're going to leave our children?

I would also like to invite you to address this issue, people who are silent, lost, scared, marginalized, or afraid in their context. And that is that throughout this year and a half, all of us who have been wandering around, vaccinated or not, young people, older people, workers, businessmen, students (except for some cases: deputies, police officers, senior officials and their good friends do not need to show their passport) will suffer a few rulers, a new society with QR code that they want to impose on the pretext of health, some with passport in hand and others on the street. After 18 months of madness, it's time to get out of the whirlwind of terror, breathe and reattach the compass from a calmer perspective. It is up to us all to choose the way, to be a new and better road, without leaving anyone out of the way, as far as possible.