Miguel Wiñazki
03/10/2020 - 19:24
- Clarín.com
- Opinion
We are all vulnerable, but there are some more vulnerable than others : the immunosuppressed, those who were already sick, and the almost universally delayed legion of the most veteran.
The plague has a predilection for the weak. In Italy, several sanitarians confirmed that a fierce criterion already applies: it is about prioritizing those who are most likely to survive . It is the cruelty of the chronological roulette of life. If evils attack when we cross a certain age barrier, they will be more acute and lethal, deepening the precariousness of the years. Older adults drift. The lifeboats of this viral Titanic, do not receive elderly . Discretionaryness and the inevitable anathema of old age is included with the virus that appeared in China and that reaches everywhere. It has always been that way; the plague sick and kills but also multiplies fears, suspicions between one another, and when it is extreme, institutes the calamitous "save who can". We are going through this phase of global expansion in which the outside world is the dynamic nest of this traveling, transatlantic, enigmatic and critically unpunished virus so far.
This epidemic, like all, puts us to the test . It is a challenge to science, a requirement of massive solidarity and transnational rationality, and it is also a challenge to bioethics in action. It's about taking care of each other without neglecting anyone . And that is not easy in a global society more related to competition than fraternity.