José Antonio R. Piedrabuena -- It's the citizens' fault

The Council of the Spanish Medical Association (Organización Médica Colegial - OMC) has repeatedly mentioned the disappointment and the physical and emotional exhaustion of health care workers and warns that the month of September "generates a growing sense of fear and desolation due to the progressive increase of serious cases that threatens to flood our health centres, emergency rooms and hospitals". A resentment of health workers "against a system that does not respond by neither doing what is necessary, nor delivering what it promises". Fear and desolation shared by the rest of the population.

But the point is that the origin of the relapse is not in the politicians but in the citizens. They have no experience of danger, they believe they are invulnerable, and they lack social responsibility. Thousands, in some countries and in our own, are demonstrating against the masks, denying the virus, saying that it is a hoax. We have always had these semi-delusional denials. We deny the fifty thousand who die, who also deny their abuse of alcohol, as many others for smoking, and something similar for being overweight, or in serious addictions, deny and deny reality from some ideologies.

It is a matter of responsibility, of a sense of danger, of anticipation, the faculties of the most human part of our brain. It is what drinkers, smokers, obese, sedentary people do not do. The 90% of our brain is like that of any animal.

How the pandemic is being communicated should be rethought. With concrete examples. A young nurse's aide at the age of 19 comes out of the ICU, but is forced into a long recovery process because she has even lost the ability to walk. Another young man has lost his lung capacity and has to walk with oxygen. So does a doctor who appears on screen with oxygen. When I saw their vivid testimonies on television, I was left with a clear idea of the magnitude of our enemy. Which is not going to be produced by daily casualty counts or repressive methods.

The behaviour of the citizen is the same as that of our representatives, they also have no idea of the danger to mental, moral and economic health of their constant proclamations of fragmentation of the nation, of attacking the Monarchy, of eliminating agreed values, the very perverse democratic memory, because there is no other than that derived from scientific research, not this one that seeks to justify an ideology in order to continue their demolishing rattle. For example, in the education of our children and therefore sex education is the responsibility of the state, to the point of eliminating the idea of being a man or a woman based on biology and many other insults for the collective welfare. They could rest from their revolution and the assault on power and leave us in peace so that we can begin the emotional recovery of so many beings we have lost, of so many jobs in the gutter and that we can find the means to avoid ruining ourselves much more. All this has increased a deterioration of collective morale.

Alcohol consumption is associated with adverse brain outcomes, it alters lipid levels because a metabolite produced by the liver to get rid of alcohol, acetate, blocks the oxidation of lipids (a necessary step to use them as fuel) which results in their conversion into fat for arteries and fatty deposits.

An attack on our mental health that continues to be made is the need to return to what, for them, the Civil War did not solve: the Republic. The Transition was the union between democracy, freedom and development, and with it we have walked until Zapatero and now Podemos. We have been at peace and we have continued to improve in all areas, and at a time when we do not know what will become of us in the next term, and those who are oblivious to the national reality and the international context, continue to want to break what has been achieved. Until it becomes obligatory to insult the King, who as the highest symbol and representative of the Constitution is an obstacle to their purpose.

The media and political parties waste no time in fixing "our alarming demographic decline, the unsustainable nature of our pension system, the financial and political unviability of our territorial set-up, the rampant aggressiveness of separatism, the galloping debt and deficit, the deterioration of educational standards, the unacceptable disconnection between representatives and represented, the pathological primacy of the executive over the legislative and judicial branches of government", toxic party encroachment on constitutional and regulatory bodiesThe threats to the stability and survival of our social edifice are extremely serious and do not admit patches or delays" (Published by Alejo Vidal Cuadras in VozPópuli).

Every summer I reread Don Quixote. A character intoxicated by his readings, a fanatical origin of his ideology, which like these gave him an identity, and an arrogance that transformed society, a wise man but who loses his mind when he interprets reality from his books. What books and reality do the anti-vaccine people consult, or those of today with the COVID-19?

This is what is happening to an important part of our political class and their followers, who seem not to see the consequences, like the former, of their stubbornness in bringing theories from previous centuries to the present. Ideology, like political dogma, is a paintbrush to save knowledge and give identity and mental and emotional stability to its possessors.

The same is being done by every rule-breaking citizen, virus deniers, vaccine deniers, ideological environmentalism and animalism, all derived from theories and denial of reality, and like those, they too have ideologies to explain their attitude.

But we have other fronts to reflect on and put a stop to it. Look at what the researchers predict, with the approval and complacency of the media: "We will have sensors to connect us to what we call today the cloud that will guide us through processes and applications to find information distributed across wearable devices" (Next step). Others are still ignorant of what a human being is and the repercussions all this can have. And the kind of life the citizen should lead... So much information for what?

Yet another of the many who want to change us and adapt us to their way of seeing the world, with the same certainty and messianic intentions as any other of the many ideologies that are spread and which they try to impose on us.

All directed at the world of information and data; there is interest, money, attention, programmes. But we don't know what to do with the hundreds of young people who are filling our cities like Madrid and Barcelona with crime.

They, like us, deny the obvious, we deny our personal, mental and physical fragility; they deny the fragility of a decaying society, of a politics based on vote auctions, denying the fragility of the economy and of the very low morale of citizens, as well as the enormous interdependence of the international context from which we must also expect global threats.

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