December, a month of family gatherings, Christmas celebrations, farewells and new wishes for the near future, which returns with high concerns as a result of Covid-19 and the new variants that it leaves behind due to the mutations that continue to originate. Delta caused great havoc worldwide, but now Ómicron becomes the new question mark.
It was even on this date, but from 2019, when headlines of an unknown and distant respiratory virus that attacked China began to surf the Internet. Despite so many discriminations and accusations that he was the main responsible and the inventor of SARS-CoV-2 without real evidence, the truth is that, like that Asian giant, few have managed to stop Covid-19.
This new coronavirus is the result of an altered and damaged life cycle by man himself. It is the consequence of a disinterested and irresponsible attitude towards nature and the concept of life in all its connotations. Nature in function of man, and not he in function of it, protecting it and living in resilience that the planet Earth needs so much for its existence.
The daily life, the day to day, from school or work to home, between household chores and hackneyed routines, exhausting due to its monotonous nature, has experienced, like matter, a transforming process. A before and after separates us without and with Covid-19, with and without grandparents, parents, months without face-to-face classes and contact between work colleagues.
A nasobuco in sight many years ago was something strange, ridiculous, self-centered or hypochondriacal. In Havana, slanted eyes used to shine, they were isolated faces like that, but here, it was somewhat contradictory, starting from a colorful panorama and blue sky, free of environmental pollution. However, today, it is like a badge of protection.
The fashion of the nasobuco, made by the grandmothers of the house, other industrial fabric and disposables, with animated characters, bows, and varied colors spread and we began to see ourselves as serial dolls, all with covered mouths and noses, leaving the interpretation from next door, expressions, feelings and words hidden under pieces of cloth, and with the melody of the eyes.
However, as “fashion” at last, everything is changing. It changes that many are no longer interested in putting on the mask, they are not interested if they get sick and infect a relative, they are no longer interested in Covid-19 or the new variants that are more transmissible. They are not interested in the present because they are tired of the same, as if it were the same as going to sleep night after night.
But badly, many spirits and demands fall at the wrong time. It is as if in the middle of a war, a soldier gets tired by his extreme exhaustion, hunger, psychological stress, loneliness and fear, and lets a new rain of bombs fall unprepared on him in the middle of the night, without having his weapon in hand, without be on the defense.
Between discouragement and acute ignorance, a long and international cachumbambé is rocked in social networks, the most unusual that could be seen in this century and at this stage of the pandemic. The illiteracy of many of ignoring the disease, the millions infected, its symptoms, damages, the thousands of deceased, of dishonoring the sorrow for those who are no longer there and those who mourn them.
More than that, there are also those who deny Delta or Ómicron and affirm that this is nothing more than a maneuver by their governments to deprive them of their human rights, of their freedom. Nor are those who oppose vaccines, flatly refuse immunization, do not believe in the value of science, or value the hard work of medical and scientific staff.
It is a pandemic of human selfishness, which verbally and physically attacks the doctors who are on duty and the nurses who carry out the immunization, a feeling among the evils that generates a disorder to the point of falling into protests, mass demonstrations and violent against measures that more than restrictive, ensure the health of societies and economies.
And amid so much selfishness, the greed of the most developed, the materialism of the capitalists has trampled, as it has never ceased to be, the poor peoples, the most disadvantaged children. They go through the world tracing their path, they do not look to the side or back, they do not extend their hand, they hate solidarity, being good people, good nations.
In Europe it happens that in many countries there are plenty of vaccines because their inhabitants are no longer interested in getting vaccinated. It happens that its residents, some Latino emigrants, do not see the problem of the shortage of vaccines in their native towns, and become part of that great mass that does not allow the most affected to improve, even those who live on the land that saw them born.
This pandemic is one of those key moments that brings out the best or worst in people in atypical and difficult conditions. Only the effect is reciprocal by the nature of that great infinite cycle of life. AMLO, as the current president of Mexico is abbreviated, said it a matter of weeks ago, Ómicron is a consequence of international inequality.
As the world community itself left behind the African peoples, the most sabotaged, enslaved and cornered throughout history, even tougher even in this pandemic that not even the richest and most developed can endure, the virus was given space among beings without health care, malnourished, without even a dose of anticovid-19, and for this reason even Omicron mutated.
And December arrived again, when it should be a day of celebrations and joys, the sixth outbreak in Europe is the latest news, the records of infections, partial and total closures in places where hospitalizations have risen and there is almost no capacity for new admissions. . Christmas parties and dinners canceled and visits postponed, where will this story go?
It will stop when the population becomes aware of the need to be vaccinated, the fact that Germany and Belgium, for example, are in regrowth was because vaccines arrived there, but millions did not access them. That percent of the unvaccinated is today the main contagion agent of Covid-19, which causes those already vaccinated to fall ill, even with mild symptoms.
It will stop when the nations respect Africa and America as worthy peoples and in equal condition as others, and not as the backyard of the luxurious mansion. It will stop when solidarity and humanism prevail. It will stop when the peoples fight each other, when the authors of this novel based on real events, support each other.
