07/02/2021 21:03
Clarín.com
Opinion
Updated 07/02/2021 21:14
In an unusual way, and as it only seems possible in this geography, in the last year
the Government turned a laboratory into a new symbol of its supposed national and popular struggle
.
What began in a confusing way as the inability to agree with Pfizer led to the construction of an
imperialist
enemy
.
Thus, the Sputnik vaccine became the essential counterpart.
Cristina Kirchner tweeted
"Es-pec-ta-cu-lar!"
, when The Lancet magazine validated the Russian development.
Chief of Staff Carlos Bianco, Kicillof's right-hand man, sneered at those who doubted Sputnik: "They needed to see it in a Western and Christian magazine."
The militants photographed themselves with V-fingers and thanked the Russian regime for the first doses.
Minister Carla Vizzotti traveled to Cuba and proudly announced the uncertain Soberana 02 and Abdala.
Even Alberto Fernández thanked Putin with an eloquent: "Friends see each other in difficult times."
If Putin was the friend, who was the enemy?
"I did not want to buy the Pfizer vaccine because it put me in a very violent situation of demands," said the President.
He was not the only one.
The escalation, which among others included former minister Ginés González García, reached the absurdity of hearing Deputy K Mara Brawer say:
“Pfizer is a vaccine that has complications and is not needed”
, and when Ignacio Copani reappeared sing
“Bring the Faizer ”,
in an inopportune irony that does not respect the pain of deaths.
The 21st century version of an anachronistic patriotic slogan:
Pfizer or Perón.
The story survived until Thursday.
Cornered by the opposition and by widespread uncertainty, the government improvised a slap to get out of its own trap.
Pre-election polls alerted him to the shared critical assessment of the handling of the Pandemic.
It is written,
59% of the population holds it responsible for the cases and deaths from coronavirus.
The request of the legislators of Together for the Change to modify the vaccine law to unblock the negotiation with Pfizer also threatened to
take away from the ruling party the possibility of that medal.
Vaccination needs to be depoliticized, but not so much.
Worse.
The intransigence prevented vaccinating those under 18 with pathologies (only Pfizer was approved in the world for that group), and even ran the risk of placing Argentina as
the only country in Latin America marginalized from the donation of the United States
through of the Covax mechanism, which includes doses of Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson and Moderna.
Uruguay has already received 500,000 doses;
Paraguay, one million;
Peru and Colombia, two million and Mexico, 1.3 million.
Too much for a country with only 9.1% of the population vaccinated with the two doses and a growing uncertainty about the production of the second doses.
"We did it like this so that it would be quick,"
Vilma Ibarra justified the Decree of Necessity and Urgency announced yesterday to release North American vaccines.
With a year delay and on the way to 100,000 dead, it seemed like a macabre mockery.
