By Raúl Cazal on August 15, 2020
Before the pandemic, we were condemned to one disease: the lack of being informed. In a few months, humanity has learned in different ways how the Covid-19 can be transmitted and what the possible health consequences are.
During the Black Death in the Middle Ages, it was not known why people died. The inhabitants of that time only understood that they were infected through the air, so they began to take refuge in their homes.
The cure is still the shelter, maintaining quarantine. Something that some people find difficult because they don’t believe in the existence of the virus, they can’t stand the inconvenience, the confinement or they carry out tasks intrinsic to security and basic health activities, production, distribution and commercialization of basic products, among others.
When the pandemic was declared, the need to get the vaccine arose. Recently Russia registered Spunik V. Then the University of Oxford together with the pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca reported that they had also succeeded.
The Russians got there first, but the media began to dismiss it and silence it. Because information about Spunik V is not circulating as good news, pro-Russian vaccine memes have been unleashed on social networks.
The Bloomberg agency was behind the investigation that Oxford conducted. Recently they announced that for Latin America it will be produced in Mexico and Argentina, led by the magnate Carlos Slim under a foundation with his last name. The news has spread. In short, the savior is Slim.
While this was happening, Michelle Bachelet’s daughter was arrested for publicly demonstrating in favor of the detained Mapuche who are on hunger strike. It is not known if the former Chilean president has made any report on the human rights violations that the Chilean state has exercised against the Mapuche people. The day after her daughter was arrested, she met with Pope Francisco. The media headline was: “They talked about the situation in Venezuela”.
Nothing has changed with the information in the hands of the media companies. They continue to vaccinate with strategies to generate opinion matrices that favor their interests and, according to Ignacio Ramonet’s The Empire of Surveillance, it is up to us to vaccinate ourselves about who is informing us.
Source: Vicconversa, translation Resumen Latinoamericano, North America bureau