We are experiencing cooperation, solidarity, clapping on balconies, all symptoms of how all animals, insects, bacteria, when they have serious difficulties, unite. There are theories from anthropologists and some ideologists that evolution is based on the fact that we have killed and fought. The idea that behind everything human is the struggle... of classes. The struggle, the aggression, the contempt of those who are not like us, "holders of the truth", of some rulers who, in Spain, continue to sponsor fragmentation and the breakdown of social cohesion, the attack on history, exacerbated by the perverse and manipulated memory of the civil war where there were only deaths in the area of the so-called Republic... Historical Memory to stir up fragmentation and peripheral tensions that give them votes. And this is not going to change, we will continue to be polarised to our disgrace.
This crisis, as in any company, would be fixed by the contribution of everyone's solutionsTherefore, we are not going to be victorious just by harangues and propaganda, but by something like what the framers of the Constitution did, now, in this health crisis, they are not going to be able to do it again, to unite.
These circumstances of the killer virus that threatens us have shown us the face of politicians on all continents: they turn to scientists now, too late. But since that coronavirus of 1918, scientists have known that these pandemics will come back and we should recognise them, prevent them and arm ourselves before they do.. This one is now appearing in China and at least the doctors, not to mention the pest medicine experts, knew it was coming.
It is surprising that what is saving lives in all diseases is good diagnoses derived from scientific research. In the old days, people died because doctors applied theories about illness, humours, blood thickening, phlegm and spirits. They did bloodletting, purging and other treatments derived from their bookish knowledge and speculation. I do not believe that politicians will impose their policies on us because they have got a good diagnosis of the Nations, of what is happening and what is coming. We will not get very far when even what we are and have been is being manipulated, historical science is being attacked, preventive medicine is being ignored. We must continue to divide, destroying what seems to be in the making, unity on the balconies, valuing science, health workers, the forces of order, with a failed pot-banging at the King.
With these envious people in charge we are going to face pandemics that will come after this, which are already here: economic, environmental, the desertification of more than half of Spain, the lack of water resources because politicians block the creation of connections from the north to the south, so that when there is a surplus of water, they can transfer it. Because water does not belong to everyone, the Ebro basin belongs to them, for example. Of a lack of research to see how to support climate change with the help of science. Another next pandemic that is already here and is on the rise: the fifty-six thousand smokers who will die every year, the same proportion from obesity, as many others from sedentary lifestyles, or the 2.5 million killed by salt consumption in the world: because it reduces the function of the cells of the immune system, causes hypertension, obesity, cancer, especially stomach cancer, autoimmune diseases... because we continue to include it, in an exaggerated way, even in bread. This pandemic is not going to kill so many people in Spain.
Action should be taken, one of them, to maintain what is now in the foreground, to continue to put health workers and scientists, the many we are seeing who support the functioning of Spain, in the place where they belong.The exaltation of technology, artificial intelligence and the belief that emotional intelligence can be taught in schools and that humans can be brought into the same fold, led by graduates who are experts in the same field, as if it were that simple, as if it were that simple. The exaltation of technology, artificial intelligence and believing that emotional intelligence can be taught in schools and bringing humans into the same fold led by experts in the same field, as if it were as simple as that and becoming an expert too.
Each person, profession, social status, level of development, will need a different one. In TVE they are devoting resources not to sponsoring, highlighting researchers, but youth singers in "Operación Triunfo" (including political indoctrination), seamstresses, cooks in which the leaders of the Master Chef Junior programme arrive in luxury limousines as the triumphant Caesars came from the battles in their chariots; and, other entertainments to abhor and eliminate culture, preparing the minds for simplisms. So says sociological research. All this on state television. By proposing these models to the youth to identify themselves with for these exalted and weighted professional qualifications, we will face the future. We will not be able to pay the costs of a health epidemic, of social models, of sectarianism.
And if that were not enough, the six educational reforms since 1980, dictated by the socialists, except for one of Wert's, which did not come into operation, are not enough. When there are too many theories about something, it is because none of them is valid. These legislators are perplexed because they legislate from ideology, not from knowledge of the reality of the classroom and what society will need. The pandemic could wait, until 8-M in the face of an urgent need to include sex education in schools and sexual freedom.
With this fragmentation, we will not be able to tackle many other challenges either, such as agriculture and livestock farming, which will disappear from our geography in a few years' time, as we doctors had no doubt that the Grim Reaper would come from China. Of the lack of stimulus to industrialise and of support for job creators. If only these doctors and virologists - not those in the government who listened to them - who are so highly praised and valued now, provisionally of course, because when this happens they will once again be unknown and left in their poorly paid laboratories. If they had been listened to, we would have saturated hospitals and collectives with anti-infection measures, preparations and therapeutic tools.
Well, since the WHO communication in January, these gentlemen have been busy, as I have already said, on gender equality, sexual freedom, basic income, the attack on the Monarchy, and other things derived not from a diagnosis of what we need but from their old-fashioned, very old ideology.
But no, they have spent their time and money in their struggle to achieve the gender policies so fundamental to the survival of the human species in 2020!"our lives depend on it"... Calvo dixit, that for such a cyclopean undertaking they exposed thousands of women in one of the 76 Women's Day demonstrations in Madrid, covering up the fact that the pandemic was already there. In the end, above the lives of all of us was to approve the law on sexual freedom, to get the support of the independentistas, and euthanasia. All this should help us to understand that their ideology, their interests to keep their paychecks are and will be above human life and this will not change at all afterwards.
But like Don Quixote, intoxicated by his bookish ideology, we see him with apprehension, not stopping from one adventure to the next in search of failure, the "manteo", the "porrazo", they continue to play politics, that is to say, intoxicating our minds, looking for culprits without self-criticism, moral sermons on television, in the midst of human tragedy, instead of managing their lack of preparation for the governance of Spain. It is the consequence of the votes of uninformed Spaniards who have put them there and will surely continue to vote for them.
It is also the worldwide consequence of voting for mediocre, narcissistic, infantile people, who, so as not to aggravate the situation, I will keep silent about more severe diagnoses that fit their personalities, and that is why this has become a worldwide pandemic. They have not taken measures, and the bad thing is that they are going to cause millions of deaths and they are going to get away with it. Is there such a thing as genocide by imprudence?
The American Trump destroying the rules of world trade, exalting racism and disregarding science. Boris Johnson with a Brexit based on manipulation, an amalgam of lies, government ineptitude and corruption that has divided the country. Leaving it as the US and Spain are also fragmented. In Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro diagnosing "gripecita".
All leaders, the result of the skill of modern marketing and the power of personalities capable of psychologically returning entire nations, even the good and the bad, to a state of emotional radicalism. -Technically, a schizo-paranoid emotional position. All of them without timely heeding the health authorities and in this I would not rule out any world ruler. India has had four months to take action, as have the leaders mentioned above. All of them are united by their disregard for science and culture, two essential tools for dealing with the complexity of the present and what lies ahead. Nations led by immature people will continue and voters who identify with them will continue to support them with their votes. It will not change the vote.
This crisis will not help, because these leaders will continue, using collective emotions to put the majority of the population at their servicepolarised. If they were normal people they would have learned what nations need, even on a global level, which is not going to happen. Even today, Minister Montero is exonerating and blaming herself, and continues to play politics in the midst of the death and family tragedies of thousands of people. "The coronavirus crisis is being used by the right and the extreme right...". "We did what we were told by the health authority and the experts."They are the authority, but innocent. So erase toilets and other public servants and their exemplary sacrifice, the priority is the pot-panning against the King who hinders their communism, like the "powerful" Banks and Electricity, not nationalised, the institutions and all this without pause between dead and confined. There will be no change, we will continue with fragmentation, division, it will continue after this tragedy and do not be optimistic, because we will get worse... and with voters in their favour and a recession of a couple of years or more if the same characters remain in charge.
Those in power now and their perhaps very weak opponents must start now to prevent what is to come, sadness, anger, unemployment and the closure of job-creating factories because they are not the ones creating them, the loss of thousands of projects, both professional and vital, and for many, ruin. To all this, we must add that we will see each other as potential carriers of viruses, that we will have lost even more of the little trust we have in politicians. And those role models, those people who have lost their lives in the line of duty, will once again disappear from our lives. We have at least a year ahead of us in which the virus can attack us. We will think a lot about what we spend, we will fear groups, the closeness of people, travel, the main source of income, tourism, will have fallen. And these gentlemen will continue to use our emotions to secure their paychecks.
For Sánchez, everyone is guilty, including the European Union, except him and his team. And that will continue. Let's not expect them to take corrective measures for all this, because the human mind, especially of half-developed people, lacks the functions of anticipation, prospection, they do not detect anything other than their interests, as happens in adolescents with emotional development problems. Ethics appears in developed brains, in consolidated emotional systems, the fruit of stable, loving homes, dedicated to the care of their children. By the way, many single women have considered taking their children to their rightful owners, that is, to Moncloa or the Torrelodones mansion... they had no one to leave them with.
The World Health Organisation has also decreed that red meat, which we doctors still recommend a couple of times a week, is toxic. Mental plagues attack everyone and disturb the common sense even of international organisations by not clearly defining the rights of children or the rights of red meat, otherwise the Minister of Education would not have been so dogmatic in stating that children do not belong to their parents. In short, we will return to the emotional plagues, to radicalism, to Catalonia and other separatisms.
They will make us forget, between them and their like-minded media, about such things as to so many heroes of the real Spain, which is not that of the politicians. By the way, they do not want to expose themselves and leave the Chamber empty, but they will continue to be paid, there will be no ERTE for them.
José Antonio Rodríguez Piedrabuena
Specialist in Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis. Specialist in management training, group and couple therapies.