According to official statistics, the pandemic that was declared in the world not yet nine months ago would have already reached

the symbolic figure of one million deaths

.

We know that there are unfortunately many more, and that the figures offered in many countries are not credible, as in the case of Spain.

While the disappeared Fernando Simón has been characterized by an erratic and opaque communication at the service of Moncloa's story, and while Salvador Illa acts as Madrid's battering ram instead of current

Raising the data and unifying statistical criteria, the civil registry and organizations such as the INE or the Carlos III Institute raise the number of Spanish victims attributable to the covid

above 50,000

, compared to 30,000 officials.

Spain is the country with the highest excess of

death per inhabitant

in the world.

Health and economic management was already tragic in the first wave and is on track to mark a new milestone in the second. At first, the government tried to hide as much as possible this funereal reality, while distributing messages of blushing optimism.

Sánchez didn't even visit a hospital

.

And now that the outbreak is hitting again, it transfers all the responsibility for the new growth of mortality to the autonomous regions, after blaming the citizen relaxation.

The flags planted in a Madrid park are worth a necessary historical memory.

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