It is not being given importance, but last week we sprouted three new emes in the alphabetical strategy against Covid. For months we have had three emes (mask, hands and meters) and it worked. It was easy to remember. A trio of words. Well now there is more. The Government circulated the news after the last Interterritorial Health. Sensitive as I am to tradition and the alphabet, it sounded strange to me. As if the Pope in one of his messages said that we must strive to fulfill the Fourteen Commandments and went on to another matter.
This was what Minister Darias did on Wednesday. He recited once more the measurements (mask, hands, meters) in what seemed like a ritual, and without warning it was transformed into a doctrinal innovation of the first order. The trio became a sextet as if a Hungarian far-right MEP were in command. “Maximize ventilation, minimize contacts and I stay home,” added the minister. I already said that it caught my attention. And I was a little outraged. I stay at home? Where is the synthesis and the lexical genius? With how simple it would have been to replace the air in abundance with ‘mistral’. And about not seeing anyone and shutting himself up at home for ‘misanthropy’. It would be five emes, but it would sound imposing: mask, hands, meters, mistral, misanthropy. If it even seems like a Baroja title that would have been a bit long.
If it is a question of reaching six emes, ‘moderation’ could always be added, that is, ‘sanity, good sense, temperance in actions’. I say this because anxiety grows with Christmas. Partly because the contagion curve may not be as downward as we would like. And partly because it gives the feeling that the opening of the hand with the restrictions can be confused with some kind of open bar by a fed up and exhausted citizenry. In this sense, the delegation of responsibility to governments is very curious. That teenage interpretation of permission. As if we had forgotten that, when there are no pandemics and our life is normal, there are infinite things that anyone can do without the slightest limitation and that nevertheless they do not do because they are not crazy either.
Venezuela
Observers
The Venezuelan elections were held yesterday with observers from Russia, Turkey, Iran and countries of “mother Africa.” Evo Morales and Rafael Correa were also there. And Manu Pineda, IU MEP who arrived in Caracas last week and noticed the elections “under the harassment of the empire and its lackeys.” They asked the observer Pineda if the elections had all the guarantees and he did not need to wait for the elections. “Without a doubt,” he replied with prescient impartiality. And he argued: “Venezuela has an electoral system that the unsuspecting Bolshevik Carter Foundation (sic) considers the best in the world.” You go to the Carter Center and you see they say that what they said in 2012 was that the electronic voting machines worked very well. And that since then Maduro misuses those statements. And that in Venezuela the situation is critical for citizens who demand democracy.
6-D
New time
It is often learned the hard way that the time that seemed boring to us was actually a good time. Maybe something like this will happen with Constitution Day. Everything was better when it was an indifferent holiday. Now, on the other hand, December 6 begins with the king emeritus trying to regularize his tax situation with the Tax Agency. And it continues with a crossover of political statements that are both inflammatory and routine. In the background, another strange novelty: not so much the noise of sabers as the noise on the noise of sabers.
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