Crime of silence
The coronavirus has us trapped. Trapped and dead-end. The immunity map confirms that the Chinese virus still has an infinite path. The shutdowns are triggered, the ERTEs and the freelancers won't lift the blinds or the head. Twenty-one million Spaniards living off the Treasury. How long? Hunger is lurking and there are the Food Bank, Caritas and the Catholic Church distributing food to the most vulnerable with the solidarity of many rich people and the increasingly lower middle class.
Where are the humanitarian organizations of the left? Is there a soup kitchen in the Houses of the People, in the headquarters of the UP or in the batzokis of the PNV? They have never existed because the left and the nationalists only create poor people (or foreigners within their own country) to control them. The history of the PER is now enlarged by the Renta Vital.
The solution is simple: live with the COVID-19 and reactivate the economy -activate Spain- so as not to die of starvation and excess of prudence. Tancredism is now being described as progressive.
In the last sermon at La Moncloa, the president assured that there was no Plan B. Nor was there a Plan A because this government of scholars and NNPs - with few exceptions - live in the realm of continuous improvisation, like Alice in Wonderland. The head of the single anti-coronavirus command bet on renewing the state of alarm every two weeks so that Congress would democratically support his actions, but in view of the abandonment of his investiture partners, he now wants to extend his cesarean section until the end of June. Why? Because the day after - betraying citizens who have asked for the months of July and August to be enabled by parliament - he will close the Congress and the Senate and will have the green light to exercise a cesarean despotism until the autumn.
He will therefore govern by decree-law until the people forget about the invisible dead. And, as First Vice President Carmen Calvo has pointed out, without changing partners. Plan B is to remain in power. Those who have not known how to manage this health crisis will find it difficult to solve the political, economic and social crisis that is already here. The greatest humanitarian crisis of our time.
Pedro Sánchez is the head of government who has accumulated and squandered the most power in a democracy. The Chinese virus has broken his schemes of breaking Spain alone and/or in company of others (UP, nationalists and separatists) and now he camels Inés Arrimadas to grant him a triumvirate (PSOE, UP and coup leaders) without parliamentary control so that he continues allowing an asymmetric de-escalation where the PNV always benefits. The PNV has kept the bodies of Alberto Sololuze and Joaquín Beltrán buried in the rubbish dump in Zaldíbar since 6 February. Where are the television stations that followed the tragedy of little Julen second by second? They're in a hurry. Even the EU has urged him to recover the bodies, but he will have to be asked by Pope Francisco. (An eternal hug to his family and friends)
We now know that the experts and scientists who advise the Government are civil servants who have not issued written reports to justify the political decisions and permanent changes in the criteria of Dr. Simon and Mr. Illa. Spoken reports so that no record is kept and no responsibility can be claimed. And in any case, they are never binding. We still do not know, by the way, their names as required by law and their curricula vitae.
In spite of the complaints of the Supreme Court of Castile and Leon and of Castile-La Mancha, 90% more elderly people have died in nursing homes due to coronavirus. Hence, the 27,321 official deaths do not correspond to the 40,000 funerals recorded in the courts. Or the more than 50,000 infected health workers. We continue to lead the world ranking of negative markers by population, but Mr. Sanchez continues to wear his red tie until the tribute in Phase III.
This government team has not allowed any bodies to be seen and as soon as Phase I has been passed, many citizens return to the new normality without realizing the tragedy. Unconscious, irresponsible and selfish. These are the ravages of LOGSE.
Some survivors warn of the danger posed by this virus but since the protective Executive has spared us the strong images - of family members crying in front of coffins and of hospitals collapsing in their ICUs - there is not enough collective awareness to realize that death is lurking around the corner.
Dr. Sanchez, the commander in chief of the fight against the pandemic, was silent -he lied- about the number of deaths in Residences; he did the same before CNN with the non-existent Jhons Hopkins report and kept his lies to the WHO
When will we get to know the accounts and commissions for the purchases of medical equipment from companies mostly located in Barcelona? Are we going back to the glorious times of Filesa, Matesa and Time Sport? More silence, yes, when closing the Transparency website, and absolute silence when asked if the Government is going to lower its salary in these moments of solidarity. The answer is no. Are you and ERTEs in politics starting with the Council of Ministers? None.
The pots and pans are already replacing the applause of the medical personnel. And the government is not willing to be reminded of its responsibilities to save 8M, the turning point of the coronavirus. No matter how much repression is exercised in the Salamanca district of Madrid, they will have to learn that, after the state of emergency, the people (and the 'pijos') will take to the streets because they have not been paid for two months. The SEPE is closed due to overwork and lack of resources.
People are desperate. We know nothing about the return of children to school or adults to high schools and universities, but minister Manuel Castell boasts that "copying well" is "intelligent", a clear indication that sectarianism cannot be cured by travelling or living in Paris or Berkeley.
The single imperial command has signed a provisional agreement for the ERTEs with the CEOE and the unions. Insufficient for the seriousness of the humanitarian crisis to come. Even the Benemérita reports that "there may be a social explosion". There is no Plan B either? I'm afraid not.
"This is as far as we've come," Pablo Casado told Dr. Sanchez after announcing that the PP will vote no to a new Cesarean section. They want to activate Spain with obligatory masks, fingerprint tracking, a USE (Emergency Health Unit) that will act in all the national territory in the image of the UME, a deposit of strategic material, a national industry and the creation of a National Public Health Agency. Liquidity, taxation, tax exemption, flat rate for the self-employed and extension of ERTEs until December Objective: to avoid a bailout. The President was silent again on this point.
He said that many people are desperate. At the end of this chronicle, the Japanese company Nissan has decided to close the factory in Barcelona. 2,600 direct jobs and 20,000 indirect jobs in the air. Production would go to Renault France. The unions don't know anything yet. Hopefully it's false news.
It doesn't matter why we've come this far. What matters is the future. And the future of reconstruction goes through Patxi López, the former Lendakari who was asked in an interview about the Archimedes Principle and answered: Which one? His second is Enrique Santiago (PCE), advisor to the FARC in the process of negotiation with the Colombian Government that took place in Havana (Cuba). With these luminaries, few 'La Moncloa (bis) pacts' can be made when they have already warned that they will not allow a process to be opened up to the action of the Government by the COVID-19.
The 46 deputies of the commission have a governmental majority, where the sectarianism of the coalition and its partners reach an absolute impartiality. We would need a vigilant neutrality and a moral belligerence that is not accredited by Patxi López, who governed the Basque Country with the support of the PP and then returned to where he used to be: to make possible the return of the PNV and to revive Bildu in Navarre.
As if that were not enough, against the decisions of Brussels, Minister Illa confirmed that Spain -one of the countries with the greatest tourist potential in the world-, will demand a quarantine of tourists. From the airport to the hotel 15 days? This is the collapse of the sector.
We will run out of summer and old people. Pablo Iglesias, as Vice-President of Social Affairs - or something like that - insulted Vox in the Lower House, as only he knows, when he asked him about his performance in the old people's homes. They are no longer fascists but parasites, he emphasized, copying without quoting the dictator Fidel Castro. He could have quoted himself in a tweet of 18 March 2018, resurrected on 2 May last, in which he said, and I quote: "The fucking old people are not the social majority, they are the only ones who do not abstain unfortunately". And he added: "A victory for the PP should not be accepted in any way. Enough of this old man deciding the future!" When you truly and honestly count the old dead (and dead) since January you will be convinced that your victory is closer at the polls.
The poisoned chalice of the coronavirus will not add war merit to the Sánchez-Iglesias-Junqueras triumvirate, supported by their faithful Urkullu and Otegi squires. But it will add absolute power to an absolutist government that has kept us in custody for 60 days and 60 nights.
Hours ago, the Vatican archives were opened during World War II. Pope Pius XII will remain without going to the altars because with the crime of his silence he did not raise his voice with enough Christian energy against Hitler even though he supported the Jews in the shadows. Silence in times of war is a crime.
Here, the lies and silences of this government, especially with the counting of victims and infected toilets, are a crime against truth and against freedom. Of course, La Última Hora - a title plagiarized from a Mallorcan newspaper - has already arrived with Podemos muse Dina Bousselham announcing 'urbi et orbi' that "in times of hoaxes and disinformation, it is more necessary than ever to defend truthful, free and courageous information". Turn off and let's go. You are welcome.
You will see how this digital podemite -who does not sign his chronicles- will not lack public money to intimidate the press and free journalists. No matter how much silence the social-communist government throws on the graves of the invisible dead, we decent citizens will never forgive or forget this collective murder of freedom and transparency.
Antonio Regalado directs BAHÍA DE ÍTACA hosted by
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