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Unusual comment by Gerardo Romano to explain the 'VIP vaccination' scandal

2021-02-27T17:31:25.025Z


The actor repudiated the fact but compared it to the decisions made in a shipwreck, when 'it is preferable that the oldest die'.


02/27/2021 2:12 PM

  • Clarín.com

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Updated 02/27/2021 2:12 PM

A week after a note from

Clarín

revealed that different officials and friends of the ruling party were vaccinated against the coronavirus in a reserved operation in the Ministry of Health, the controversy continues.

In this case, the discussion about the episode (which earned him the resignation of Ginés García González) got in the middle of an interview with

Gerardo Romano

 (74) on

Sábado Tempranísimo

, the cycle that

Marcelo Bonelli

conducts

on

Radio Miter AM 790

.

Critical tone, the actor said he considered "serious lack of ethics that he never commit" skip in order to make health care protocols to receive a dose of

Sputnik V

.

And he insisted: "I would never have done it, I would have died of shame."

However, Romano came out in defense of the questions that Alberto Fernández's administration received in recent days: "All the political performance of a government cannot be reduced to an unprecedented, erroneous, terrible situation ...", he commented.

And to make his position more marked, he made a totally unexpected comparison, which led him to become a trend in social networks, by drawing a parallel between the management of the pandemic and the decisions made in the midst of the shipwreck.

"When we go to the boats on a boat, and they say 'Women and children first', the youngest are being privileged because the old have already lived," explained Gerardo.

And he completed: "So, in a case of commemoration (when two people die) it

is preferable for the oldest to die and not the youngest

if there is a place in the boat."

"This is a place on the boat too," the actor concluded, referring to the COVID-19 vaccines.

Gerardo Romano spoke with Marcelo Bonelli on Radio Miter AM 790.

When asked if anyone had offered to be vaccinated, Gerardo brought up his status as a lawyer and answered bluntly: "No, no, no ... I was never offered anything, not a job, not a job, I was not They offered nothing because I do not accept anything. I am 74 years old and have a track record. I may be moody or a little impertinent in my comments but I am a person who respects the law. I have also been a professor at the Faculty, as has been (Alberto) Fernández, and nothing inhibits me from ethics and purity, "he stressed.

In another part of his talk with Bonelli, Romano said that at the moment he was in Uruguay, since he has a residence in Laguna del Sauce, near Punta del Este.

And he praised the neighboring country for the way it handles its political controversies.

"I am from the River Plate, I live here and there, I have a Uruguayan daughter ... There are aspects of the Uruguayan idiosyncrasy, the political treatment of no cannibalism, a certain respect, which greatly favors democracy," he said.

Look also

Dady Brieva's reaction when she found out on the air of Ginés González García's resignation: "Let's eat it ..."

Baby Etchecopar said that he blocked Alberto Fernández on WhatsApp and revealed his last talk

Mirtha Legrand, on the VIP vaccination: "They backfired, now they are going to row for the elections"

Source: clarin

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