Intellectuals and scientists now accuse the Government of exercising "health terrorism"

08/31/2020 - 23:12

• Clarín.com

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Intellectuals and scientists accused the national government, in an open letter, of exercising

They did so three months after having opined that Alberto Fernández's management had installed an

, in reference to the coronavirus quarantine that began in March.

"(That) letter was widely disseminated and was harshly questioned by those who considered it an exaggeration. Today

, but that then we sensed: in the name of caring for the health of the population, the Government advanced with an agenda alien to the context we live in and dissociated from reality ".

Thus begins the first part of the new open letter that was signed, among others, by intellectuals such as

;

the artists

and Maximiliano Guerra and scientists like

(Conicet).

Sandra Pitta, one of the signers of the open letter.

There are also signatures of university professors and researchers, journalists and professionals who work in different areas.

They continued: "From the

discourse

of the first months, it was passed without scale, but with equal eagerness, to propagate stories with incomplete and biased empirical or scientific contrasting and even with erroneous data destined to maintain the seclusion and submission of a large part of the population. population".

The open letter was known this Monday, the day that the Ministry of Health of the Nation announced another 9,309 new infections of coronavirus and 203 deaths in the last 24 hours.

With these records, there are

The signatories accused the Government of

that reached "an inexcusable limit with those who have died in isolation and without the dismissal of their families, represented in the case of

In addition, they argued that "the Government shows little expertise in the field of health policies."

They concluded: "It is necessary to end the use of indefinite quarantine to advance in projects of personal impunity and the concentration of power of official political groups. It is essential to end the illegal use of

."

In May, when they had released the letter of the "infection", the Government came out to question that concept very strongly.

It was through the Chief of Staff, Santiago Cafiero.

"We are not fans of quarantine, it made life difficult for all of us, no one is pro-quarantine,

, we do not want people to get sick, suffer, as simple as that. There is a reading that we hold here because then the President accumulates politically and there is all a speculation behind that, but it is an editorial.

, "Cafiero said then.