Boys and girls have already learned: confirmed positive cases of COVID-19 are not all real, only one-tenth of all those who carry or have carried this virus in reality that does not fit in EITB. The experts warned, accepted it by the authorities (which is worse, later admitted that the actual deaths are also below the data) and there is no doubt. It's proven and it's point.
From now on, the citizens (not to mention our trade union and political representatives, but also social movements) would be pushing hard for the real authorities to apply the testing protocol for all suspected coronavirus. At least -- like what they do in Germany.
It does not serve to reclaim the German model for us, as the Basque Government’s advisor Arantxa Tapia has done… in the decisions to keep companies closed or open, where it is said that their competences are respected. Let us not compare ourselves – those of us who have found ourselves as helpless as all the other communities and people in Spain with regard to the coronavirus – with the Germans. The Basque Oasis was not in Germany, it was a small tax haven within Spain… and you will see what is left of our entire autonomic structure after the flood. For everybody's disaster, you see it.
If we start to compare ourselves with Germany, let us start once and for all to copy your model of generalized tests. Don't get too tired of the numbers. With data from yesterday, March 31, Germany recorded 68,180 infections and 682 deaths, while Euskal Herria infected 8,225 and caused 441 deaths. Thus, in Germany 1 in 100 cases have died, in the Basque Country 5.3%. Germany also fails to test what the World Health Organization is calling for in 70% of all real cases, but we are far from us the sick Spaniards and the sick French (in this case it has equated us the North and the State).
However, since things can be made worse, BEÑAT Zaldua has shown in the Gara newspaper that in the previous two days they have been halved, at least as far as Hegoalde is concerned. How is it understood that our health authorities demobilize the population by anticipating the trend changes of the main media?
The truth is that our autonomies had no plans or means of emergency to protect us from an epidemic to the citizens in an industrialized environment full of dangerous companies. Some of the major powers in the area, such as France, such as nuclear power, have thrown into the air many of their instruments of protection during the last decades; the newspaper Le Monde has just shown how the Parisian authorities have wasted since 2007 many of the masks, medicines and artifacts accumulated by the concern of previous epidemics. Also in Belgium. Neither in the CAV nor in Navarre have we approached it, because apparently we have not had any kind of protection to destroy: we have not at present had enough tools to equip the professionals who complied with the minimum emergency services. When you go through the third week of lockdown, you'll see municipal police, Ertzainas, nurses and others unprotected, the complaints are heard every hour.
Heads of the Basque Government and the Government of Navarra: Don't you get enough Covid-19 tests? Does the WHO not have the capacity to meet the minimum standards set for any country in the world? Are they not going to test us as much as they do in Germany? If so, tell me. Give the public the truth: we do not have enough tests or sufficient protections to manage the crisis we have now and we are not obliged to suspend the confinement in a few weeks, if we are not going to die of starvation and madness, in addition to pests… Tell us with the clear words: we do not have the means to prevent the second wave of coronavirus from spreading to the public.
And please: in the next appearance, put the mask on. To recognize the citizenship that we must take care of ourselves and others and the whole community.
With more than 200,000 people affected globally, @WHO CEO @DrTedros has reiterated that the best hope to prevent community transmission is to isolate, test and treat every suspected case and trace every contact. #COVID19 https://t.co/xAjHA3RWm2
— Health Check (@HealthCheck_in) March 19, 2020