Javier Firpo
07/16/2021 12:48
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 07/16/2021 3:54 PM
Resignation and disappointment win. Disbelief and uncertainty prevail and there is
a deep sense of mistrust
. They are the hundreds of thousands of citizens "abandoned" by the second component of the
Sputnik vaccine
, of which 550 thousand units arrived in the last hours,
insufficient to cover the need of millions
who, after three months, forgot to wait. . "It took too long, are the antibodies from the first dose still there? Nobody says anything, nobody informs you, the
lack of empathy from the authorities
is what scares the most," is the general comment of those consulted by
Clarín
.
An English teacher, Adriana Abras (63) is from Mar del Plata and suffers from Waldenström, a
rare cancer
in which the bone marrow produces too much white blood cells.
He was vaccinated on April 20 with the first dose of Sputnik and has been suffering
an internal struggle
between waiting for the second dose and starting an oncological treatment that can take no longer.
"On Monday I started chemotherapy, I bet it is safe, the
vaccine is a utopia
, it is part of the story."
Without anger, or effervescence, but in the grip of an emotional drain that led to resignation, Abras did everything in his power to get the
second dose before starting chemotherapy
.
"I went to an information center with the corresponding medical certificates and medication and they explained to me that
the second doses arrive from La Plata with first and last names,
be patient, wait and they gave me an email address," he says with an ironic smile .
Adriana Abras (63).
"I have a disease that consumes me a lot of energy, I no longer waste my time waiting for them to tell me when they will give me the second dose."
"Of course, my waiting times are different,
perhaps from so much waiting I am no longer around
, I still took it easy, I wrote the email as they indicated to the Ministry of Health of La Plata and as expected the answer was' We have a lot of demand for messages, we can't answer. 'I said to myself' let's go, keep going 'and here I am, appealing to the practicality that I always had, with my head stuck in my virtual English classes, which luckily take me all day ", explains Adriana, married to Eduardo, an accountant, who is also waiting for Sputnik,
Adriana finds it hard to believe "the ineffectiveness and lack of foresight. How is it that they give you a vaccine, not knowing that the second dose does not exist or there is no stock? I am so far-sighted with my work, I take care of it so much, I prepare each class so much in advance, that at first it was not possible for me to be so inefficient with health. But at this point in life nothing surprises me, they suggested that I ask for a
remedy
, but I have no time or desire, with my illness I'm already losing a lot of energy. "
"Nobody knows what happens after 90 days"
Hyperinformed, aware of the specialist infectologists who appear on television, Alicia García (73) cannot hide her concern about the lack of her second dose.
"There is so much talk, so many things are said, that it is impossible to be on the sidelines. I want to be informed and I see everything, because it is my health and my future. But
It gives me the feeling that
no one knows exactly what happens when the 90 days
after the first application are completed, "says the Barracas neighbor, who was vaccinated on April 12.
Patience says it has run out and today distrust of everything embraces her.
"It is the truth, I find it difficult to believe what the Government says, that first it announces one thing and the next day it is dismissed and announces the opposite. I
am worried because there is talk that they could give us another brand as a second dose and the truth is That I mistrust
. In itself, it did not enter my head that they could manufacture vaccines against Covid in less than a year, but hey, we are here, gifted ... ".
Alicia Garcia (73).
"It gives me the feeling that no one knows exactly what happens when the first application is 90 days old."
Diabetic, "Lala" -as they call her- does the job of "not doing her head, because sometimes anxiety dominates me," says this woman who has been married for 52 years, with four children and thirteen grandchildren.
"I am not going to deny that
I am very afraid of the disease
, especially since my 47-year-old nephew was
hospitalized for
71 days
at the Hospital Agote. He almost does not count it. And that causes you anguish, I hardly see my My grandchildren or my children. I wish I had the opportunity to
travel to Miami and give me the Pfizer
, the one that the Government did not want to bring. "
"It remains to lower the head"
Without mincing words, Norma Garrigue (62), from Río Gallegos, where she has lived for more than fifty years, does not hesitate: "
The vaccines, the two doses, we pay for them
, with our taxes, not this government that
arrogates The effort of bringing them
. What effort are they talking about? They are handled with shameful impunity, self-confidence and discretion, but what are they going to care about! We lost 14 million vaccines (Pfizer) due to an ideological issue ", he affirms forcefully. .
Garrigue works in the public administration of the capital of Santa Cruz and has no problem saying what he feels.
"The vaccination plan at the national and provincial level
is very murky, typical of Kirchnerism
, which is used to doing everything in a hermetic way, secretly and lying, true to its style," says this woman who suffers from hypertension and who took the first application on April 14.
"Here the uncertainty is very great, because
the level of contagion is very high
, but nobody says anything in this province that has been governed by the K for thirty years."
Norma Garrigue (62), from Santa Cruz: "The vaccines, the two doses, we pay for them, not this government that takes the effort to bring them."
Norma, who lives with her 83-year-old mother, believes they ended up inoculating her with another vaccine.
"We are in a position that we cannot do much more than claim our rights, but who cares. Here the Government did the business with the Russians, who gave them millions of the first component and now they are going to demand the second from Magoya. They are going to send it when they are immunized.
It remains to bow your head, wait and follow the herd, typical of this society
. "
"They are throwing drowned slaps"
Dynamic and fit, Oscar Ricchetti (76) attends this medium after a long day at Campana. He works in a sandbox for construction and lives in Villa Urquiza. "I have the logical anxiety of those who are pending. When one is waiting for a news that makes one wish, that state of anxiety is restless, especially
since 102 days have passed since the first dose
and one is no longer a kid."
Ricchetti works in person for about eight hours a day and is in contact with people all the time.
"Although I am very careful and take all the precautions, that does not imply that I cannot be infected. I have many colleagues who have caught the Covid, have been hospitalized and
no longer come to work
. And above, as a worrying fact, it seems that the
Delta strain
is circulating
, which is very contagious, "says this man who had part of a kidney removed due to a malignant tumor.
Oscar Ricchetti (76) works in a sandbox company: "The company where I work, quietly, could have taken care of the vaccination of the employees."
"I have mixed feelings, since at first, after the first vaccine, I was hopeful and now I have a
deep resignation.
I think the Government is confused with what it says about the effectiveness of the first dose ... First, it
was three weeks between the first and second component
, then 45 days, then 84, then three months and thus they are throwing drowning slaps.
The government wanted to handle itself and realized late that it could not.
The company where I work, quietly, could have taken care of the vaccination of the employees. "
120 days standby
Sara Moreno (63) confesses that she has already gone through all possible emotional states and now feels "
great skepticism
." Of course, it is about
120 days since it was inoculated (March 22)
"and there are no signs that my turn is coming. Above all, I am a teacher and I teach Art Education classes in person to primary and secondary school students, which puts in a position of much exposure, "says the teacher from Chaco from Resistencia.
To top it off, remember Sara.
"They called me in May for the second dose of Sputnik and
when I showed up they told me there wasn't
. Imagine what happens here in Resistencia, where there is an average of 500 people a day contagion. Everything he's doing is outrageous. the Government, the national and the provincial, which are such for which No one tells you anything, there is an alarming level of unpredictability and such is the ineptitude that they seek to generate calm and provoke the opposite.
Sara Moreno (63) is about to reach 120 days after the first inoculation.
"I am a teacher, I teach face-to-face classes and I am afraid," acknowledges the teacher from Chaco.
In need of work, Sara says that "if I don't go to school, they send me out to the street and look for a replacement. I said I was worried but hey, I'm not the only one, there
are many of us who are like this, in a situation of uncertainty
. It happens that my little head does not stop carburizing because my 46-year-old son-in-law, with a dose of Sputnik,
was very serious
and caught the disease at work, so it is difficult to continue as usual ".
"Annoyance and tiredness"
"How many people today can have a stable state of mind and lead relatively normal lives?"
Susana (76) wonders, insulin dependent, and very worried because it is not her turn to get vaccinated again. "I am in good health but I have a life in which I practically do not move from home, except for some little apple that we give with my husband and my cane," says this neighbor from Villa Urquiza, who applied Sputnik on the 1st of April.
A mixture of feelings surrounds Susana and her daughter Marian, who tries to demand justice for her mother through social networks.
"I have annoyance and a great fatigue, because the Covid is the only issue and it is not easy at my age. But it is the country that we have, where things are done badly, that is why we do not have the second component. Does society pay? I worked all my life and I pay my taxes, that's
why I claim what corresponds to me
. "
Susana (76) is insulin dependent.
"It is the country that we have, where things are done badly, that is why we do not have the second component."
Diabetic, Susana shares that for more than thirty years she has had a psychiatrist "and the issue of the lack of vaccine is a constant in each session, which allows me to control anxieties".
Perhaps the lady's unease is due to "the decline of this country, which not so long ago was a health example, with model hospitals such as Garrahan, Clinicas and the Malbrán Institute. That is why it
hurts the soul to know that more 100,000 families are mourning the failure
of the Government, which today offers us only uncertainty. "
"Haphazard"
"At this point I'm waiting for God,"
Juan Carlos Tordo (68), a drummer for thirty years of La Mississippi, tries to qualify with a joke. "I try
not to go crazy, not to become paranoid
, because I know that I am going to have a very bad time, so I keep a close eye," says the musician who this Saturday will perform at La Trastienda with sold-out tickets.
84 days have passed since Thrush was vaccinated, who is a risk patient.
"
It catches my attention that there is no news, I feel good God
, but hey, I understand where I am standing and what authorities are in charge. The truth is that one looks at neighboring countries and regrets that Argentina has a vaccination plan so deficient. But that's it, that's what it is, I don't want to give myself a handle, I
just bitch for having opted for so few vaccine variants
".
Juan Carlos Tordo (68).
"That's it, that's what it is, I don't want to give myself a handle or get paranoid, I just bitch for having opted for so few vaccine variants."
The historic
drummer
of Ricardo Tapia's band smiles when he defines that "I have a dangerous job,
but it's my job, I have to work
, I need it because I have a four-year-old son. The issue is that I cannot ignore the risk of playing in a
closed place in front of 300 people
... All of us in the band have a single dose, we are very responsible and on stage we will take all the precautions, but I admit that there is something
scary
, but without paranoia, "he insists.
"I started taking Ivermectin"
Oncology patient, Teresa Bologna (75) could not understand how she had not yet been assigned a shift for the new dose.
"I am undergoing chemotherapy with hormones for breast cancer, which made me very uneasy to have only one vaccine. In fact, by prescription
I started taking Ivermectin
, which seems to be very useful ... One listen, ask what if it helps, everything works. "
Teresa Bologna (75).
"If I had known that the second dose was going to take more than three months (the first was on April 1), I would have gone to Miami."
Bologna is offended by how the Government organized the vaccination plan "and I am horrified by having passed the hundred thousand dead, I cannot believe it. The
disappointment and disappointment are very great
, I did not imagine such a catastrophic situation and personally If I had known that the second dose was going to take more than three months (the first was on April 1), I would have gone to Miami. "
On Thursday, after speaking with
Clarín
, Bologna received an email with the turn of the second application.
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