Sporty people with black humor say that 2020 will be remembered as the Year of the Animal, because Cristiano Ronaldo was given the award for the best player of the 21st century, at the Globe Soccer Awards gala. Some witty informants from Madrid gave CR7 a nickname The bug, when he was Florentino Pérez’s pretty boy. It was not known then that, a few years later, The bug it would be a coronavirus, called SARS-Cov-2, which people call he Covid 19, the the Covid 19, which is the name of the pandemic it has caused. The Ministry of Equality, headed by Irene Montero, has not yet ruled on whether it is female or male. Being a bad bug it should be male.
The year has been to send him to hell, say the common people. The worst of the 21st century, possibly. With Cristiano Ronaldo and with Leo Messi we have had better years. Seen from Cádiz CF, with Sinergy’s we have lived worse years. And although in 2020 he has risen to First, it is a shame since no spectators have come to the Carranza stadium.
Anyway, those creatures who are being vaccinated in their 90s, like Araceli Hidalgo, have seen worse times. They come from the 20th century, which has known some of the greatest atrocities in history. Two world wars and a Spanish civil war … Atomic bombs dropped … Ethnic massacres … And if we go into a pandemic plan, more people died in the 1918 Spanish flu than in 2020. In the current one, we are going for 50,000 dead officers, while a century ago there were more than 200,000 deaths.
However, the worst critters are not coronaviruses, but men. Let’s look at the example of Russia, where we are presented with cruel Putin as if he were Lucifer’s brother. In World War II, some 20 million Russians died in the fights against Hitler. And furthermore, during the years of misdeeds of Stalin, that great communist leader, another 20 million Russians died. Genocides generally dress by their feet. So the Russians can get vaccinated with Sputnik, just in case.
However, you have to put things in their place. In the province of Cádiz, some 550 people have died from the pandemic this Year of the Animal, while in the 1947 explosion 150 people died, according to official figures. The year 2020 is dire, although there were worse ones. But it should serve for us to reflect on the lightness of being; and to understand that man should not act like a wolf to man, as Hobbes wrote. Because then it becomes the worst bug.
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