With coronation, no numbers
- I hear in the media voices calling for tougher action. From my humble and ignorant, I want to make some parallel or indirect reflections. The spectacular images of the streets of Wuhan, the measures taken by the Chinese authorities, showed governments around the world the way forward; firstly, they showed that it is not foolish time like the democratic debate.
The need for alarm, the opinion of well-positioned sperm in health institutions, was welcomed. Governments did not hear any other reason, the voices of those who proposed doing things differently and the basic data, silenced the comparative data, limiting themselves to counting, increasingly, the infections and deaths caused by the coronavirus.
Political, medical and media leaders have not reminded us that the coronavirus has always polluted human beings. We haven't been reminded of how many people suffer and feel every winter from the seasonal flu. It was the version of the dangerous unheard of virus of our days and questioning the need for a state of alert.
It cannot be discussed. You can't think. We have only to follow our instructions. As in traditional wars, voices that do not share the command strategy are silenced.
"Fear of the virus, fear of the neighbor, fear of not being a good citizen... A fear like that of the living literary world: fear of dying as completely as it is of living completely"
Those who say that it would be enough, in order to deal with this epidemic, to be careful and to follow some minimal recommendations. They say that this virus is not the deadliest of all times and that the deaths caused by it are no more regrettable than those caused by any other enfermedad.Dicen that you have to look for the causes in the development model and in the change of destination, the soluciones.Los that say the remedies taken can be worse than evil mismo.Dicen that fear is an evil...
Fear of the virus, fear of the neighbor, fear of not being a good citizen... A fear like that of the living literary world: the fear of living as well as of dying at all.
We've been prevented from talking to strangers, embracing our friends, caring for the sick, being with the family. They are often endowed, but willing to give up everyone in the face of the danger of contagion or of getting sick. We say: “If you infect my neighbor…” Or: “I wouldn’t be forgiven to infect my mother,” believing that it is absolutely probable to infect her... actually, with reasonable measures, when it is very unlikely.
How our feelings have suddenly changed! I was so distressed that I thought we were on a route where you couldn't escape... Survival has been above all the other values.
"I'm not tremendously hypothetical, but behind these events, the hand of the health care industries, the attempt of states to catch themselves and, all of us, to see the great social experiment, I don't think it's excessive."
I am not excessively hypothetical, but behind these events, the hand of the health industries, the desire of states to catch themselves and, all, to see the great social experiment, does not seem to me exagerado.Un an unknown scale experiment that is causing scenes that we only saw in horror movies. Between a thousand, two foreseeable effects: we will be more and more controlled and we will live more and more online.
These days, perhaps more than usual, we look at the machines that bind us together and separate us; in my humble opinion, those that bother us to have open and critical spirits. More focused on the machine, and more difficult will be to free ourselves from the world of dictatorship and lies. We have heard, on the pretext of coronation, that the most basic freedoms have been erased... At least, it was not at once: the ground was worked.
Machined, isolated, subjected... All the conditions are in place for the extraordinary to be normalized. Why not, next year, when another virus arrives...? It will no longer be, as in Chernobyl, having a great need, but later on... by chance. The promise of these weeks: isolation, above all, is what we must avoid. Our words must be to move away from fear, from blind obedience, from the machines with which life is carried, and to unite with each other.
Words of madness, right now; I know.
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