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2020 - The Year of Discrediting (Part 2)

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Reflections on the past year 2020 and the beginning of 2021

In the First Part of this Post we talked about the Political Discrediting in Spain after the unfortunate year 2020 and the beginning of 2021. Today we will continue talking about the Discrediting in other Organizations or Corporations:


Discrediting in the Media: We have also seen something similar in the mainstream media in this country, in advertising, on social media. Suddenly, it went from criticizing the alarmism of the Wuhan virus, to following its path in an almost hypnotic and fanatical way, leaving no room for reflection, debate, research, or scientific precedents. The incomprehensible Protocol was assumed that to fight against a new disease it is not necessary to do autopsies or investigate it ... in which head does it fit? The new script of the theater company had changed, and either you follow it, or you go to the street, and see how many options you now have on the street to work ... thank goodness that there are organizations to preserve free competition in our market ...


It is very sad to see people that you usually saw in different types of media and that you thought were really defenders of the freedom and rights of people, mutate into some "read scripts" without coherence with respect to their previous career. A collaboration that begins by informing and saying "take care of yourself" to end up normalizing an unjust and unjustified situation.


A situation in which some people from their network of cameras to the world are condemning people for being irresponsible for not wearing masks while they do not wear them, and we have to believe that periodic PCRs are made so they are super safe, not like you that they are street people. We would like to know what PCRs are really done, without so many being done, some would have a nose like a pipe.


In short, it is beginning to clarify that the end of the representation of this play seems to be a new world of Masters and Slaves.


This transmutation has also taken place in advertising, it began by positively reinforcing our fear of the virus and our gratitude to the health workers, going on to criticize or ridicule any voice that doubted any argument or discordant fact, to go on to say slogans such as “we have it a very bad past, but it's not worth investigating, you have to move on and trust the future ”.


The discredit in the general political class at a higher level, most of us thought to date, that in Europe they would control our politicians a bit, since in Europe they are serious. Yes, yes, we thought so. What do we think now? It is difficult to express it, I believe that we would not be very wrong if we said that the current vision is that they are equal to or worse than those of Spain, since they respond to entities of higher rank; ours by comparison are small potatoes, the lowest part of the chain of command, with the exception of us common people, of course. 

And this is clear because it seems that it is Europe that has established the distribution of funds, or has someone heard our politicians argue about this? And it has been established in a way that generates this fear and this prefabricated panic, paying for the PCRs performed, for hospitalizations, ICU admissions, etc. I paste the link of the General Provisions for the Autonomous Community of Catalonia of the B.O.E. in relation to Decree-Law 12/2020 of April 10 on budgetary measures in relation to the comprehensive health system (…) to alleviate the effects of the pandemic generated by Covid, these payments are found on pages 4 and 5 of the pdf o 36993 and 36994 of the Decree-Law itself.


Europe is promoting this situation in which it seems that the states earn more by receiving these funds to alleviate the effects of the Pandemic, than with the state's own economy, or it almost seems that the end is to ruin the country, if not, it cannot be understood how they expect companies and freelancers to pay taxes without being able to exercise the Right to Work. And all this in a year 2020 with a Pandemic that the more cases there are, the fewer deaths, fortunately, there have been ... surreal ...


The discredit in many Large companies and Multinationals, which obviously have other information different from what is given to us. Because it is curious, that practically nobody has protested hardly. We have football teams without making money in the games and that was, for many, their main source of income. We have tourist companies being dismantled, we have real estate patrimonial companies that lose their assets, their assets depreciate, their tenants stop paying them, in some cases squatting is even facilitated, makeup companies that have to be noticing a lot ... and nobody is almost complaint, nobody says anything, on the contrary, they collaborate against their own interests, even against their shareholders ... incredible.


The discredit in the Police of this country and therefore in the majority of the Agents of the Authority. Without a doubt, one of the highlights. Until this past year 2020, people perceived authority agents as help and protection, cases of abuse of authority or rude treatment and authoritarianism were minimal. We even boasted of his honesty, when compared to other police forces in other countries that may have more habit of asking for bribes or hush money.


Since the confinement this has changed, not only the laws and their practical application, we speak of the forms and treatment, authoritarianism and stubbornness with a rigorous and even sectarian way of understanding the laws themselves dictated in Decree 21/20 from June 9. It was as if someone had fanned the old school bullies, who were calm in their bodies, but now it seems that they are given free rein to go several steps further, and are an extension of this state of fear and panic , in which they have us subjected. 

Discredit in the Health Institutions of this country, and therefore that of a large part of the health of our country. We boasted of having one of the best healthcare in the world, we wonder, what happened? Especially in nursing homes, without doing autopsies, and cremating corpses. It has now become clear that they act almost more like a military collective than a health and knowledge collective. "You have to follow the protocol", even if it is not adequate, or it is counterproductive, or although it is not being informed of the real risks assumed, all for the common good. And now what we are told is that people can be served by phone…. We do not understand how it is possible to stop giving face-to-face care to the majority of people, and not believe that this will lead to more deaths. It is like a dissociation that seems almost adaptive to this extreme situation that we are experiencing.


Discredited in the International Organizations that take care of our world health, of our international trade, and of those that seem to have a world ministry already set up for almost everything, and we say almost everything because curiously there is no world ministry of justice.


It seems that to abort crimes against humanity in progress, for that, no. To defend our fundamental rights and freedoms, not for that either. It gives the feeling that someone has lost a sense of responsibility up there.


So, recapitulating, we have a virus that arrives that mutates politicians, the media and advertising, large companies, agents of authority, International Organizations, ... well, this is not a show by a small Independent theater, this looks like Brodway.


Well, who do we have left?


The Judicial Authority, as we are still not clear about their role, since they have moved in different senses. Many of us still maintain a certain trust and hope in it (we no longer have any other Power since the Executive and Legislative have a fixed course) and we are aware that they do not have an easy task.


We really expected a reasonable ruling regarding the generalized and obsessive use of the mask, or at least a clarification about the five-foot safety distance and its not imposition on minors.


They cannot be unaware that this part of the law is not being applied in practice correctly by the different police forces, but rather as a form of repression and fear. And they know it because many proposals for denunciation, or “supposed” crimes due to the accumulation of denunciations during the confinement of March, threw them down.



Regarding masks in schools, we observe with envy how in other countries judges manifest themselves differently from what they have manifested in Spain, as is the case in Austria, according to news, the mandatory nature of The masks in schools, which seems very successful, due to the minimal or almost zero number of clinical cases in children, remember, at the age of brain development.



We have found it brave and appropriate not to let Catalan politicians slip away from their passage through the polls, after spending almost a year restricting rights and freedoms, it has made them take their pictures. Luckily, the Covid does not serve as an excuse for our politicians to stop making democratic elections.


Also, on the other hand, they have affirmed that we have the right to record the actions of the police if it seems inadequate as evidence. Something is something, although it seems a somewhat uneven fight. It is possible that they are waiting for what other judicial authorities do, it seems that the current situation does not allow them to do anything else. 

We want to make a special mention to the Basque Judge Mr. Luis Garrido who has allowed the retaurants and bars to reopen in Euskadi, these actions make us see some distant light on the horizon of this nonsense. The sentence is appealable and we will see how it passes.


At the moment we have already seen how the media and the College of Epidemiologists have thrown themselves around his neck without the slightest scruples for telling the truth, the first that seem to not respect the separation of powers in our country or freedom of expression ( if you don't say what they want), and the seconds that seem to be the Professional College that has been touched by a divinity that allows him to withdraw our rights and freedoms without any discussion and based on solutions used in the Middle Ages and vague evidence scientific studies, such as confining and isolating a healthy population for a virus with a lethality of less than 0.5%


I hit the news from telecinco.es



The Supreme Court has also supported the inviolability of the home, although we now see that other communities, such as Gallega, intend to reform the health law to bypass national legislation, and we ask ourselves, is this legal? Is this constitutional?


Sadly, we have to say that we have the problem now, and that inaction or slowness in resolutions in the face of human rights restrictions also produces discredit. Especially if there are institutions that have words like "Constitutional" or positions such as "Defender of the People" in their names. Especially if there are politicians who openly talk about making laws to bypass the judges, they talk and they do it ... How is this possible in Democracy? 

Even the Portuguese judges, according to this news, have questioned the reliability of an inadequate and nonspecific test, such as the PCR, to lock up a healthy person, or the fact that only a doctor can diagnose whether a person is sick or not. , and not another authority.


 And nothing happens here, or the play has a poor script, or I no longer know what has to happen for someone to stop this nonsense. We have no guarantees that verifiable scientific criteria and evidence are being followed for decision-making, expert committees must be bad companies so that they cannot make themselves known, and nothing happens.


The question that comes to mind after this recapitulation is are we in a pre-tyranny or pre-dictatorship of health? Supposedly it should be more difficult to go from a dictatorship to a democracy, than the other way around. That is, supposedly, from a democracy it should be more difficult to move to a dictatorial state. That should be the theory, we believed, however in practice the facts are what they are, in 11 months everything has changed, a large majority of people go with the flow for fear of a virus, or a fine, or being singled out u harassed by authorities, but mainly for fear of a fine of these of the new normal, you know, for the common good.


We still have hope in the Judges, they are the only ones who could put sanity in this situation, they will surely put it at some point, but possibly the economic, social and probably sanitary ruin is already almost total.


Finally, we want to positively highlight that not all the people who are in these groups mentioned produce Discredit, there are many many people who do not agree with how things are being done, more than they think. In the end we all have families and we see that something has changed in this fragile “Democracy” that we have, and it has changed without consulting the citizens. We are all aware of this.


The current system is putting many professionals in these sectors between a rock and a hard place. So they have to choose between their salary and their code of ethics, which causes many people, due to the primary survival of their own person and their environment, to follow the guidelines set by the new normal. 

There are many professionals and officials in these sectors who do not agree with what is happening, and who in their own way try to put a bit of sanity by contributing data to the situation, and breaking the barrier of censorship. Our thanks and support to all of them. Someday you will be recognized for your effort.


Ultimately, it would be necessary to study and reflect on whether our Constitution and Democracy have been endowed with tools to defend itself from the attacks that it may receive, both by action and by omission from the different agents that participate in it.


There are questions that we cannot answer, and of which we would love to have a multidisciplinary answer. I leave them there in case someone cheers up:


In a situation in which everything is a "order and command", what difference is there really between a democracy and a dictatorship or a tyranny?


Is there a way to break this chain of "order and command"?


Would disobedience or conscientious objection be justified in this situation?


Is there really a separation of powers in Spain? Is there really a separation of powers in other countries?


Someone seems not to be doing their job in defending the Constitution and human rights in Spain. Who would it be? Who would this role correspond to?


Was the democracy we lived in before 2020 real?


Is "pandemic democracy" real democracy?

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