Gonzalo Sanchez
02/04/2021 18:41
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 02/04/2021 18:41
As the world's great powers plant a flag over huge batches of vaccines and the supply of doses against the coronavirus trickles down to the weakest countries, a strange parallel scenario begins to look naked.
What does Beatriz Sarlo know?
What he wanted to say?
What was the Argentine essayist half denouncing when she spoke of a vaccination channel under the table?
One phone call, two, three, and no answer.
Sarlo said what he said in the middle of a televised debate and then silence was called.
As long as he does not finish clarifying his sayings, the idea that he knows something serious and delicate will hover over his figure.
Sarlo said: "They offered me the vaccine under the table and I told them that I'd rather die from drowning from COVID."
He did so while they were debating the controversy generated by the invitation of the authorities of the province of Buenos Aires to the vedette Moria Casán to be immunized.
He did not say all of what he knows.
He appealed to the idea of a dark channel, of lack of control, of political favor.
To say "under the table" is to speak of subterfuge, it is to speak of a clever way of escape.
It can, then, be assumed that Sarlo alluded to the handful of scattered data on discretionary management that is being carried out with at least part of the few
Sputnik V vaccines received in Argentina.
They are concrete data.
In the first place, there are many cases of governors who decided to get vaccinated to "give a message" of awareness to the population.
Is it not enough, in case, that this message is embodied in the figure of the president and, if you like, the vice?
More inexplicable situations also abound.
Fuzzy contours that end up confusing everything with everything.
The mayors who decided to get vaccinated are many and are, above all, impossible to count.
But as a testimonial case is that of the mayor of Pinamar, Sebastián Ianatuony, Yannantuoni, from the Frente de Todos, 38 years old, without basic illnesses.
He was also vaccinated to give a message.
His town received 450 vaccines.
Did you vaccinate all your health employees before?
Said yes.
Hard to believe.
There is no, at least at first glance, a detailed record of the number of vaccines that were distributed in each district of the country, how they were managed and who received them.
There is a lack of clarity in the management of an input that is scarce and will continue to be scarce.
Is it not in any case a form of altruism, being a political authority, to be vaccinated after the doctors and nurses who are still in the
line of fire against the pandemic do it?
The debate over discretionary vaccine management occurs throughout the world.
In Argentina it is perhaps more stale.
It even fell into the hands of urban militancy.
But the ruling party should take note of its Iberian ally, Pablo Iglesias.
The leader of Podemos has
been insistently calling for the resignation of all officials who were vaccinated for the mere fact of representing power.
These officials, whether Spanish or Argentine, do they also have the possibility of directing who to vaccinate and who not?
That suspicion arises directly from the heart of Beatriz Sarlo's words.
The essayist did not clarify where the vip vaccination offer occurred geographically.
Perhaps that is why, in the midst of the scandal, the tireless Buenos Aires minister of health, Fernán Quirós, an official who has shown not to be fond of getting involved in controversies of this kind, has appeared: "In the city of Buenos Aires, definitely not, in the I cannot tell you the rest because I am not sure. In the city of Buenos Aires vaccines are not given 'under the table'. For this reason, we insist so much on complying stage by stage ", said Quirós.
His sayings are supported by the certain fact that in the City the vaccination turn for officials has not yet arrived.
What do you know, then, Sarlo?
Why did he say what he said and didn't say more?
She has the answer.
It is commendable to refuse the treat.
But better, finally, would be to denounce it as it should.