The way governments continue to shift the covid blame onto their citizens is terrifying. I just saw on television an angry Italian woman crying out that all non vaccinated people should be locked up. This is what our governments are achieving. It is chilling.
The blame game has been constant since the beginning of the pandemic. Here in Spain, after the first lockdown (when we weren’t allowed out even to exercise), the blame was first directed at joggers; neighbors in my block called them ‘imbeciles’; I was insulted several times I went out for a jog, and a female colleague of mine was told, by another woman, that she should be raped (her crime – jogging maskless). Then, it was agricultural workers; after that, young people and their partying; during the winter curfew days, it was illegal revellers; during the summer, again youngsters, demonized; now it is the unvaccinated.
The epidemic has no culprits. Only victims.
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There seem to be some early signs of hope, though. The Spanish Society of Family and Community Medicine just published a very important editorial calling for the end of exceptionality (link here). One of the things they stress when they discuss the blame narrative is: Contracting or transmitting a respiratory virus is nobody’s fault. If cases go up, it is not because ‘we have relaxed’ or because ‘we are misbehaving’. The dynamics of an epidemic is much more complex […].
Last edited 2 years ago by Lorenzo Gallego Borghini
where does it say that? Can you direct to the document itself? In Spanish? And another question, why is it officially an “opinion” (op-ed)? Is it not a scientific fact that the epidemics happen not because there are “spreaders” running around?
Hello Lena,
It’s an editorial published in Actualización en Medicina de Familia, which is the society’s journal. Maybe I should have said it’s a “position paper” instead of “op-ed”?
The sentence I quoted and translated is at the end of the section entitled “Comunicación para una sociedad adulta”. In the original it reads: Contagiarse o contagiar un virus respiratorio no es culpa de nadie. Si los casos suben, no es porque «nos hayamos relajado» o porque «nos portemos mal». Como se ha visto, la dinámica de una epidemia es mucho más compleja y en ella influyen multitud de factores.
Last edited 2 years ago by Lorenzo Gallego Borghini
Sometimes violent over through is the only solution
Andrea X
2 years ago
Welcome to Sturgeon’s Scotland or to Drakeford’s Wales or to Johnson’s England too. The rhetoric is not that different and we escaped similar vaccine passports by a whisker (I never understood whether they are being enforced in England), although the concept has now been introduced and the precedent set, so who knows what will happen with pi or sigma or tau.
It would be interesting to see an article on a country where Covid is NOT being used for political reasons.
(Check the ending of your third to last paragraph. Also, most of your links don’t seem to work.)
And welcome to Jacinda Ardern’s New Zealand. The unjabbed can still access retails stores and take public transport, but most other areas of society are being denied them either by actual legislation or by individual organisations making their own rules. With the governments blessing.
I couldn’t agree more. The scary thing is regular people who think others are merely imbeciles because they don’t believe what they are told by something in the “media”.
Social media is destroying civil society rather quickly.
Justin Clark
2 years ago
Alienate… Exacerbate…Justify a permanent State of Emergency….AND… push forward with Digital ID / Social Credit Scoring control. Build Back Worse.
(Thanks Thomas for this article btw).
Last edited 2 years ago by Justin Clark
Alan Thorpe
2 years ago
What has happened to Italians? I always saw them as rule breakers.
The same thing that happened to Spaniards. As one Spanish journalist said during the early days of the first lockdown, “I have just now understood the 40 years of Franco’s dictatorship”.
The way governments continue to shift the covid blame onto their citizens is terrifying. I just saw on television an angry Italian woman crying out that all non vaccinated people should be locked up. This is what our governments are achieving. It is chilling.
The blame game has been constant since the beginning of the pandemic. Here in Spain, after the first lockdown (when we weren’t allowed out even to exercise), the blame was first directed at joggers; neighbors in my block called them ‘imbeciles’; I was insulted several times I went out for a jog, and a female colleague of mine was told, by another woman, that she should be raped (her crime – jogging maskless). Then, it was agricultural workers; after that, young people and their partying; during the winter curfew days, it was illegal revellers; during the summer, again youngsters, demonized; now it is the unvaccinated.
The epidemic has no culprits. Only victims.
There seem to be some early signs of hope, though. The Spanish Society of Family and Community Medicine just published a very important editorial calling for the end of exceptionality (link here). One of the things they stress when they discuss the blame narrative is:
Contracting or transmitting a respiratory virus is nobody’s fault. If cases go up, it is not because ‘we have relaxed’ or because ‘we are misbehaving’. The dynamics of an epidemic is much more complex […].
Do you have a link? Thanks!
https://amf-semfyc.com/web/article/3063
Oh I see the link. I will translate into English, Where can I reach you to send the translation?
I think this op-ed is a very significant turning point.
where does it say that? Can you direct to the document itself? In Spanish? And another question, why is it officially an “opinion” (op-ed)? Is it not a scientific fact that the epidemics happen not because there are “spreaders” running around?
Hello Lena,
It’s an editorial published in Actualización en Medicina de Familia, which is the society’s journal. Maybe I should have said it’s a “position paper” instead of “op-ed”?
The sentence I quoted and translated is at the end of the section entitled “Comunicación para una sociedad adulta”. In the original it reads:
Contagiarse o contagiar un virus respiratorio no es culpa de nadie. Si los casos suben, no es porque «nos hayamos relajado» o porque «nos portemos mal». Como se ha visto, la dinámica de una epidemia es mucho más compleja y en ella influyen multitud de factores.
Sometimes violent over through is the only solution
Welcome to Sturgeon’s Scotland or to Drakeford’s Wales or to Johnson’s England too. The rhetoric is not that different and we escaped similar vaccine passports by a whisker (I never understood whether they are being enforced in England), although the concept has now been introduced and the precedent set, so who knows what will happen with pi or sigma or tau.
It would be interesting to see an article on a country where Covid is NOT being used for political reasons.
(Check the ending of your third to last paragraph. Also, most of your links don’t seem to work.)
Thanks, will be fixed soon 🙂
Are you talking about Italy or Scotland? 😀
He could almost be talking about NZ
And welcome to Jacinda Ardern’s New Zealand. The unjabbed can still access retails stores and take public transport, but most other areas of society are being denied them either by actual legislation or by individual organisations making their own rules. With the governments blessing.
This is becoming increasingly chilling.
I couldn’t agree more. The scary thing is regular people who think others are merely imbeciles because they don’t believe what they are told by something in the “media”.
Social media is destroying civil society rather quickly.
Alienate… Exacerbate…Justify a permanent State of Emergency….AND… push forward with Digital ID / Social Credit Scoring control. Build Back Worse.
(Thanks Thomas for this article btw).
What has happened to Italians? I always saw them as rule breakers.
The same thing that happened to Spaniards. As one Spanish journalist said during the early days of the first lockdown, “I have just now understood the 40 years of Franco’s dictatorship”.
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