Parents of guilt
Guilt is wide and infinite. Everything that happens, preferably the bad, has a culprit, although public opinion, which is very inclined to seek out who it is, is rarely right and never unanimous. People's imagination flies over the reality of the facts and the imagination or suspicion of some people immediately jumps the barriers of caution and turns it into news that in a few hours gains credibility.
The pandemic of the COVID-19 is a propitious subject for harbouring all kinds of lies, speculations, hoaxes, criticisms and opinions turned into faith dogmas. There are many doubts about this cursed virus and ignorance leads to an overflow of imagination. The first thing is to look for the culprit and when the culprit does not appear, it is invented and described in great detail.
Since the coronavirus burst into our lives, the public imagination, and often the malevolence of various interests, has not ceased to disturb the essence of the known truth. And here guilt has come into play. Someone has to be guilty. Nature's evolution, the influence of climate change, the prevalence of bad behaviour? Let's find out.
The rumor that it could be an artificial virus manufactured by the Chinese to take over international supremacy quickly became attributed to the United States which, having the same intentions, had spread it around the world starting with China itself and Iran, countries that in one way or another make the political, military and economic superpower that Trump advocates uncomfortable.
Time goes by with no sign of the virus showing its face, and now that the pandemic has spread to the five continents, it is once again Washington's intoxicants who are picking up on this theory that science dismisses. What matters is to look for the culprit and start at the top: China. The tables are turned. Then there was time for the criticism to subside and now it falls on the governments.
It is quite likely that governments have not reacted quickly enough and are not doing the right thing. But governments, whether right-wing, left-wing or free pensioners, are always the lightning rod on which the responsibility for everything that happens, particularly badly, falls. It is curious to read the foreign press these days and see how the accusations against the governments of each country are substantially the same.
There are more justified ones, such as those that are levelled at the presidents of the United States, Mexico, Brazil or the British prime minister, who have reacted by laughing at the danger that was coming. But they also fall with unanimity of criteria with those of Italy, France, Belgium, Germany or Spain. There is coincidence because the results are the same: people are dying and not even science, much less politics, can save them.
No one who has seen a relative die is usually satisfied with what has been done to save him or her. The same goes for preventive measures. We all tend to see some as wrong, others as excessive and others as unnecessary. The fault may lie with the authorities who enact them, but few assume that failing to comply with them by testing the risk to others affects their own. Of course, self-blame is not predictable.