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War cliche
  • First the Spanish president mentioned it, then the French president mentioned it, and then the Portuguese president mentioned it: ‘War’. The terminology shows how much global authorities are lost with the arrival of the coronavirus. Who has decided to call this war? Why? They're also spreading in the dictionary of citizenship: heroes, front line ... There have also been military men who, in a state of emergency, somehow seek their protagonism, with their aggressive vocabularies.
Mikel P. Ansa @peruarenaansa Berria.eus 2020ko martxoaren 22a

But this is not a war. And instead of inviting blind people to patriotic adherence using the cliché of war, the authorities would do better to dedicate resources. In today’s BERRIA there are heroes (from the front) who work on that front line. They're furious. They're being forced to reuse face masks that can only be used once, because they're finishing. The shoulders are protected with garbage bags, as there are no waterproof gowns. Because no tests are done — a doctor has denounced the lack of control of the cases of run over it. Cleaners, transporters, merchants -- they've been shipped to the front line without weapons. “They send us to get sick,” the forensic doctors who testified in BERRIA have denounced.

It is true that this crisis is very difficult to manage. It's out of control. Few people would have been able to wait so soon to create these needs. How to produce millions of masks and breast-feeding at a stroke? In wars, factories were required and nationalized to produce weapons.