01/24/2021 18:03
Clarín.com
Opinion
Updated 01/24/2021 18:03
"The sacrifice ended in a success," launched the governor of the province of Buenos Aires, Axel Kicillof, last Tuesday in front of a score of mayors of the Partido de la Costa.
Completing
the triumphant harangue, he called those present to celebrate the good
news: Covid cases in the district had dropped, in the daily average, from 4,510 to 4,215.
Although auspicious, of course, what he had just announced, flanked by his Minister of Health, Daniel Gollan, was infinitely more economical than the epic he seemed to anticipate.
And it
would have required a few more grams of prudence, especially considering the erratic course of this pandemic
, with its sprouts, sprouts, waves and new strains, just as the world is showing.
And that, as experts warn, will force us to live with the virus for a very long time yet.
But
verbal incontinence and success, gratuitous and anticipated
, seem to be
an irrepressible temptation
to which the different spheres of power succumb.
Nobody seems to be chastising.
It was back in April when Alberto Fernández exhibited in some slides that would become a classic, the presumed successful national strategy to flatten the coronavirus curve, contrasting it with the Chilean one.
From the other side of the mountain range, the response was immediate, and comparing data, tests and comparative criteria,
a document refuted "Fernández's triumphalism
.
"
Similar papers would be perpetrated with Sweden, Spain and Paraguay, among others.
At this time, with Formosa in the spotlight due to the complaints about the conditions of the isolation centers for those infected by Covid, which the UCR and Elisa Carrió have described as human rights violations, the phrase of one of them sounds more paradoxical than ever. his ministers, months ago: "God is from Formosa," said Jorge González, to explain why there was no case detected in his province at that time.
Borders closed
, people from Formosa prevented from returning to their homes,
an oncology patient who received permission to enter and reunite with his family five months after his death,
and even a man who drowned trying to swim in to see his daughter, marked the "Success" of the model of the eternal
Gildo Insfrán
, who
embraced without a chinstrap with a President who spared no praise for "the best governor."
They say that there is no more profitable business than buying an Argentine for what he is worth and selling him for what he thinks he is worth.
And also that,
if an Argentine wants to commit suicide, he only has to climb on his ego and jump
.
Humor is usually a good magnifying glass to look at ourselves, and temper some memories.
Like that of that unclassifiable Leopoldo Fortunato Galtieri exhorting the English with a
"if you want to come, come, we will present a battle"
, in the run-up to Malvinas, or the announcement of the "successful" recovery of the islands and the installation of a climate triumphalist, sometimes closer to the dispute of a football match than to the drama, in all its dimensions, which always involves a war.
Far from the black period of the dictatorship, at the head of the presidency in a convulsed 2002,
Eduardo Duhalde
pronounced the phrase that would remain in history:
"Argentina is doomed to success."
More than a century ago, on
October 12, 1880
, another first president, Julio Argentino Roca, said before the National Congress when he assumed his functions:
“We are the trace of a great nation, destined to exert a powerful influence on the civilization of America and the world
... ”.
In 2021, just by taking one indicator and according to the UCA Social Debt Observatory, poverty in the country reaches 44.2%, with a total of 18 million people, and indigence climbs to 10.1% .
Returning to humor, even if it is black, and paraphrasing what Sendra captured on this same page once, Argentina seems to be appealing its condemnation of success.