Planet Calleja | The truth of Fernando Simón, by Fernando Simón

"I'm going to kill you";

"I'm going to put you in trouble ..." and

, the director of the Center for the Coordination of Health Alerts and Emergencies of the Ministry of Health, the man in charge of managing the worst health crisis of the 21st century, for many guilty, for other experts, accepted the challenge of

and

.

For two hours the man with the broken voice, the crazy hair and the almond told his truth, written only by him and how he wanted to tell it.

He did not avoid any of

questions

, and there were many;

He did not hide behind any 'I don't know', 'you would have to ask someone else' or 'I didn't go'.

He knew they were going to "bust" him (and not exactly

) and still did what he wanted, because, as a head of the press office of the Ministry told him, "I know that later you are going to do whatever you want."

Since January 16 - the date he set -

is one more element in every house.

He is the one who has shown his face every day to explain and report on the evolution of the

, he is the one who has exposed himself, he is the one who has taken them with an open hand when they have made a mistake, he is the one who has dealt with some and with others, is who has had to do the work of communicating, teaching and expressing.

That is what we have seen every day, but behind it there was much more.

It was

and his team who sat in front of the Prime Minister in March and told him either mobility is restricted or there is no one to stop him.

"We told him that we needed to control the transmission and that could only be done by controlling mobility, otherwise the health system was at serious risk of collapsing. There was a moment of silence and then the president said 'we are going to do what has to be done and close all essential activity. 'And at that moment

because I was going to close a country because of what I had told him, but I also thought that this man had a lot of courage for making the decision to close it. His legs trembled, so I imagine that he would feel a huge responsibility.

"

told Calleja.

In last night's program, recorded between September 13 and 17 in Palma de Mallorca - it got messy -

left a string of headlines because he did not bow down to any question.

It's what

has

, being with him, going to his program, it's very comfortable.

And it is because it is comfortable that it gets the guest to relax, accept and respond.

It is obvious that

decision to

go to the Calleja program with which he is falling us is cannon fodder.

It never rains to everyone's liking.

Of course you can criticize, of course you can "burst"

, for months it has been one more part of his job, but what cannot be denied is that getting

go to his program, tell everything It was told and exposed as it was exposed last night is a bombshell of capital dimensions.

And if on top of that he goes into everything, talks about everything and tells his truth, there is nothing more that could be asked.

That surely many things were left in the pipeline, of course;

That surely could have played more, of course, but that nobody should forget that this is not

,

,

or

, that this is

, which is an entertainment program where those who go do not go to the interrogation room.

The intrahistory of the controversial participation of

in

is as simple as a phone call and a yes without too many doubts.

There was no conspiracy or palace intrigues, just a call and the illusion of someone who never believed that he could be the guest of a program like

.

"When you are a normal person, like I am, and when you watch the programs, you see the famous people and I thought I wish my name was

. And one day you called me."

No more.

Jesús Calleja's program is a walk in the clouds for the guest.

He took

in a balloon, caved, rode a bike, dived, climbed and even stayed at Miquel Montoro's house - hostia, pilotes! "But all this responds to a single objective: uncover who accepts. And

accepted.

Whitening?

Well, there is probably a bit of all that. But, honestly, I don't care because I think the important thing about last night's program is that

-sorry,

- He managed to show something that we either did not want to see or they did not let us see.

"My head wasn't working anymore"

"I'm sure someone is going to mess with me about this (...) When I went on vacation in August, I left because my head wasn't working anymore. None of us who had been working since January 16 was working well.

,

, and what is worse, you can make mistakes. Now the same thing has happened to me. I needed to rest and I'm on my vacation, "explained Fernando Simón at the beginning of the program, aware of both he and Calleja that the interview was going to bring more than tail.

I think last night's interview can be described in one word, humanity.

Let's put ourselves for a moment in the shoes of

, a State official, responsible for coordinating health alerts, who on January 16 goes from being an anonymous person to becoming the center of all the lights.

, day after day in the spotlight, day after day having to show my face ... "I have a job and part of it is to communicate, but I am still really a normal person. But

. I have it here and I am pending ".

From nothing to everything.

And yes

has been wrong, his team has made decisions that could have been made differently, but what he wanted to explain last night and he repeated ad nauseam is that the decisions that at that moment they believed were the correct ones were made.

Calleja did not leave anything in the inkwell and did not hide any questions.

And he had the luck of

did not throw balls out in any of his answers.

"How did they not see it coming? Calleja asked him at the beginning of the interview." History has shown us that an epidemic was coming.

We were in a situation where there was transmission in Wuhan, but not in the rest of the world.

In China there was no transmission,

(...) The problem in Europe comes when the

enters Italy and there begins to be massive transmission, "replied

." But the alert did not jump on us either, "replied Calleja." There we had problems understanding the disease because we thought it was transmitted by symptomatic patients.

We also have a lot of connection with Italy, "Simón tried to explain." When did the alert go off? "Calleja continued." January 16 is when we started working 15-16 hours a day.

When at the end of January we began to see what happened in Italy, we began to duplicate our efforts.

". And the million dollar question:" So 8-M was not to blame? "Answer:

.

So Spain did not close, there was no alert because they did not believe that it was necessary to have it.

And

.

"We had already had a periodic meeting with the president for many weeks. There were many doubts, many fears of making drastic decisions that were going to have a huge impact on the economy of our country. And in addition, we had the risk that the system would collapse (...) We told him and the president made the decision. My legs trembled, so I imagine he would feel a huge responsibility. There was no other option. "

"Do you have a clear conscience?"

"Do you have a clear conscience?" Asked

.

"Yes, that does not mean that I do not take responsibility for what happens around me. The decisions that were made were those that had to be made. Some could have been made later, but what we have done we have done knowing that We were going to save life. With what we have done we know that there are many people who have not died, but there have been many who have died and each one of them weighs ".

They weigh, of course they weigh, so much that

carries more than

on his back

.

He loads himself and we load him because there were errors, many errors, the masks, the tests, the tests, the distancing, the residences, the closures ... Could more be done?

Surely yes.

.

Perhaps going to the

program

has helped you stop and think.

I think the silences of the interview with

said much more than the words.

The faces of Simón in each of the experiences that the program organized for him, the looks, the smiles ... Calleja got the

seen

beyond the daily press conferences.

needed to be seen that way, to show the other side, to at least try.

"I feel like a real invader in a world that is not mine and that I have no right. I feel shrunken. It really has me overwhelmed. It is spectacular, it is tremendous," were the words of

inside one of the underwater caves. those that the program brought him.

"Tremendous", very "tremendous".

Tremendous because

had no need to expose himself like this, he is already quite exposed, and he wanted to do it because he wanted to and because I think he needed to do it inside.

He needed to tell how everything was, he needed to say that what was done was done because it was thought to be the best, he needed people to know that he is a man with a family, with three children, with a father, with five brothers, that He decided to dedicate himself to Public Health because he

depends on keeping the world turning.

The words of Fernando Simón's father

"My father always told me 'I'm waiting for you to do psychiatry and stay for the consultation.' And this year after seeing us after confinement he told me, 'I'm proud that you didn't study psychiatry.' Public health is fundamental."

Hey, and that was saying the words that his father directed him after the confinement and that I started to cry.

Yes, I am an idiot, a sentimentalist, a lazy person, but I get the feeling that

ability

to communicate is not only that he manages to explain what is incomprehensible to ordinary mortals and is understood, but also crossing the barrier that few spokesmen, politicians, experts manage to cross.

He did not have to tell about his father, or say that he sees little of his wife, or that his children study or what his brothers do, but he also did.

He took care of that piece of privacy that nobody wants to be transferred, but he put aside

from the Alert Center and let him see the

normal

, because "I am still a normal person."

"My life has not changed as much as people think, I keep doing the same thing, I'm still the same, I work on the same ...".

It continues being Fernando Simón, difficult to continue being it.

Bunyola

,

,

and a dozen other spectacular locations to 'give'

a vacation and give Calleja the interview of the moment.

And between location and location a batch of questions.

I like

, I really like how he asks the guests, how he puts his finger on the sore without them noticing, how he searches and searches, how he leads them on the path that he wants them to go and from the outside it seems that the guest is the one who has taken the reins and has led the way.

I think

last night went the way he wanted to go and that

wanted

.

There was a lot of connection between them, few times he has had so much with any of his guests and I think that thanks to that connection, Simón opened up on the channel.

"I think we have done everything that could reasonably be done.

, but they were the ones that had to be taken at that time (...). In Germany, for example, who are more inhabitants and have had fewer deaths and infections, probably had more access to tests because they had a company that prepared them there. People relate differently. The relationship between the most fragile people and the rest of the population is different (...) We don't have to change the way we relate. Just a little more distance, there is nothing wrong with loving ourselves the way we want, but with less hugs. Protect our elders, but elders need to relate The elderly do not have to be afraid, they have to be prudent. You have to go for a walk, you have to be healthy ", because there was also pedagogical work.

In fact, at the end of the interview,

said so, hopefully this interview would serve and help to better understand the epidemic and to know what to do to fight it.

The economy, health, conscience, mistakes, mistakes, successes, decisions ... Everything points to

.

He knows it, but it gives me the feeling that he has lost the ability to disengage in some way from all of it.

Who takes advantage of their vacations to give an interview to a program no matter how much you like it and expose themselves again to controversy and criticism?

Either they have pushed him, which I doubt, or else

no longer afraid of the abyss.

"Yes, some opposition leaders have called me to give me support and others to tell me to be careful and back off a bit."

Do others see it and he does not see it?

There was a moment of the interview when he

and

went to a diving school and there the instructor told him without mincing words that there was a moment when he looked like "a puppet" who stood in front of the cameras and released what others wanted me to let go.

flatly denied it.

He assured that they have never told him what he had to say and that the cabinets only tell him the news of the day to alert him to what the press is likely to ask him.

But, they have never marked what he had to say.

After last night's interview, I really think that more than using him as a puppet, Simón has gone free, with everything that goes with it.

Today there will be as many criticisms of him as praise, as many blows as caresses, as many stones as cotton balls.

Today

will once again be at the center of the hurricane.

And I get the feeling that it won't matter to him that if he had to do it again, he would, that if

called him again, he would say yes again.

"Because I'm still a normal man, nothing more."

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