Spain Fernando Simón and the "scientific" errors of Sánchez's spokesman
MomenTVs The truth of Fernando Simón, by Fernando Simón
If there are two words that go and that are united for the rest of time, they are coronavirus and
Fernando Simón
.
Undeniable that
Fernando Simón
has been, is and will be (until the person above says otherwise) the visible face of the coronavirus in
Spain
.
A kind, different, strange face, but a face that has not missed a single day of his appointment, the appointment with the
coronavirus
, the appointment of the infections, the dead, the variants, the restrictions, the the warnings, the fears, the contentions, the optimism, the fear.
Too many mornings and too many afternoons being the target;
too many mornings and too many afternoons emptying the magazine.
Fernando Simón
has
rarely
gone into hiding.
He agreed to go with
Jesús Calleja
on one of his adventures.
It didn't come off too well.
And yet he agreed to sit face to face with
Jordi Évole
in
Lo de Évole
.
Last night he repeated in a less playful, less easy format.
Closer to purgatory than hell.
"
There have been 70,000 deaths, there has been one deceased 70,000 times
. You cannot consider that you are satisfied with your work when you have 300 deaths a day. It is not acceptable for us because our job is to avoid it."
And the gates of purgatory were opened ...
Jordi Évole's
interview
with
Fernando Simón
was not to talk about sins, it was to talk about mistakes.
Everything led to that.
The light, the position, the questions and, of course, the answers.
It is true that it cannot be compared when
Fernando Simón was
with Calleja enjoying a multi-adventure in Palma de Mallorca with last night at
Lo de Évole
.
But there were the same questions, but not the same answers.
Last night
Fernando Simón
decided that the time had come to sing the mea culpa, even if it was a bond, even if it was not the one that many are waiting for.
He acknowledged mistakes, his own and others'.
He recognized many of the things that we already knew had been done wrong, but that no one had dared to assume.
He did it without further ado, without wanting to put on a show, without wanting to make headlines.
However, when we talk about
Fernando Simón
and what
Fernando Simón
says,
the difficult thing is not to get a single headline.
"How dark is this?"
Fernando Simón
said
to
Jordi Évole
before even sitting face to face.
"It's a house brand,"
Évole
replied
.
Yes, it is a brand of the house, but in the interview last night that darkness seemed to swallow a lot more things than in other programs.
There was even a certain fear to see how they sat down without breaking a single one of the rules that Simon himself has imposed.
"If I come here and don't follow the rules, imagine what I would fall for,"
Évole
pointed out
when F
ernando Simón
asked him where he sat.
"Rather, the one that would fall to me,"
Simón
said
.
Fernando Simón
knows what it is to get into the mouth of the wolf.
Fernando Simón, to Évole: "I shouldn't get wet"
And although in the interview there were the questions that inevitably had to be, the feeling was like wanting to turn the page, like wanting to go a little further, like wanting to put aside that "there will be one or two things", that one " There is no need for masks ", those phrases that for a year, no matter how much
Fernando Simón
says no, haunt him.
Perhaps that is why the interview did not start with any of them, nor with any reproach, it started with the vaccination, with that of the infantas Cristina and Elena, with their trip to Abu Dhabi and their "they offered it to us and we put it on."
But
Fernando Simón
does not enter what he knows he should not enter.
"I don't think I should get wet. Maybe because of who they are they have made more noise. But they are people and they also have their fears."
If it is brief twice good.
He already told
Évole
when he asked him if he would agree to go on an electoral list or dedicate himself to politics: "How am I going to go on an electoral list if I am a loudmouth?"
Well, just in case it is better not to get wet.
Fernando Simón
did not get wet with the infantas, he did not get too wet with the euphoria and optimism of the administrations and the Government also after overcoming the first wave of the coronavirus, but he did get wet in what affects him directly.
He got wet on his own, on what he cares about.
The rest are another type of
pandemic
.
He continued to maintain that by summer 70% of the population will be vaccinated, he continued to hold onto a burning nail that few of us see, but that Fernando Simón is very clear about, even if it burns him.
"The vaccines will arrive more frequently from April.
That 70% of Spaniards are vaccinated for the summer is very feasible
. I keep it."
There will be time to rectify if it is necessary to do it or there will be time to applaud him.
With
Calleja
, for example, he did not rectify, he did not sing the mea culpa, he did not assume the errors.
In that interview, he limited himself to hiding behind the already so hackneyed phrase of "it was an unknown virus", "it was a virus about which we had no data", "it was a virus that caught us by surprise".
Surprisingly, worth the redundancy, last night one could no longer hold on to the hackneyed arguments.
January 30, 2020
,
Fernando Simón
appears to give the daily report on the situation of the coronavirus in Spain, Fernando Simón releases that phrase so repeated so many times of "there will be no more than one or two cases
.
"
March 14, 2021
, those one or two cases are already 3.5 million, the deaths more than 72,000.
"On January 31 was the first case in
Spain
, the only case, that of a German in La Gomera. There was no transmission other than in China and not even there was community transmission. At that time it was the evaluation that we could do with what that we had known. The situation changed radically when we learned that there was uncontrolled community transmission in Italy. The
whole perception changed
. "
And the week of March 14, the week in which the first state of alarm was declared and the confinement of an entire country?
"The week before March 14 was a race. It was not only hard for us but for all health workers in Spain because it was trying to understand a situation and decide what to do in a situation that two three days before was unthinkable."
And the question that remains unanswered is why it was not acted before, why was it waited, when did it become known that the situation was already critical.
And he answered: "On March 9 or 10 I realized that it was necessary to act in a different way, it was necessary to change the way the country works, at least in terms of health. At that time they were very tough decisions (...) the decision to control individual liberties is very hard, very hard. "
What they have criticized so much continued without solving it, or not?
There it was
Fernando Simón
.
"In Spain until March 9 we had an incidence of around 0.5-0.6. Today we have 153.
We had a daily notification of 30 or 50 cases
. The control that could be done was made. We did not face a New disease, and the recognition by the patient took time. From the time it was infected until it was diagnosed and communicated it took a long time. Italy went from notifying 3 cases on February 20 and on the 24th it had 223, on the 25th it doubled. And they began to warn. One thing is to say the same thing may happen to us, and another to say that with 30 cases I am going to close the country.
I would have liked to know what would have happened if we had closed it on March 3 or 4.
I would have liked to see it. "
I think he has rarely been so clear on this.
The ideology of Fernando Simón
Fernando Simón
recounted that he proposed the state of alarm and that he did it in front of the President of the Government - "You see the reactions and you are saying 'Ugh, and if we are wrong', and you know the consequences that this is going to have. block an entire country "-.
Sánchez took a deep breath, according to
Fernando Simón
last night
, and "assumed his position as head of state and at that moment my perception of the rulers changed a lot.
I admired them a lot
."
And the fact is that one of the surprises that occurred last night, if it is possible to speak of surprises when something is white and in the bottle, is that
Fernando Simón
answered the question of whether it is on the left or on the right.
There will be those who are shocked by their response, there will be those who did not expect it, there will even be those who do not believe it.
"I think it shows. I am very social. We have to worry about people in need. We have to avoid thinking that there are two different groups. We are a population. I do not understand that there are positions in which more disadvantaged groups seem of another species ".
Well, we already know what we all knew.
And there will still be those who give it 1,000 laps.
Ideologies aside, the interview with
Fernando Simón
, although today there will be those who think that
Jordi Évole
went to whitewash him, it was actually a give and take of this is what you said, this is what happened, this is what I recognize now, this This is what I have to keep quiet, this is what we have to do, this is what we need.
There was talk of the lack of protective material, not only for the toilets who for weeks were protecting themselves with garbage bags, but also the protective materials that were not available for the population, the masks.
Évole
preferred to ask the question recalling a video of Fernando Simón when the Ebola crisis in which the epidemiologist pointed out the need to have this material for future pandemics.
Five years after those statements, nothing
.
The mea culpa of Fernando Simón
"There was more than we had,"
Simon
said
.
"In 2014 I was talking about the protection materials of the isolation units, now I would say the same but expanding it to the population. Perhaps we should have made an effort to stockpile protection materials. But you have to understand that the stocks have disappeared. The concept of having things in storage has disappeared. Stocks are necessary. It is something that we have to rethink. Furthermore,
Spain must have the capacity to manufacture certain products
. "
We should have made an effort to stock it, we should have kept the stocks, we should have been able to manufacture it ourselves ...
"We had been knowing for days that there would be no necessary resources," acknowledged
Fernando Simón
.
I knew it.
"We knew it was going to end. We had the ministry's purchasing teams looking under the rocks. The market turned into a hack. The traders and the countries we were trying to get it turned into a terrible thing. We had to have foreseen it. certain foresight but it was not enough ", intoned the first mea culpa, that of the garbage bags, that of the lack of PPE, the lack of protection ..." I understand that
part of the responsibility is mine because not I insisted
that it be achieved. The limited budgets that Health has always had does not help. Health has always been a minor ministry. Before this pandemic we would never have calculated what we needed for this pandemic. "
To whom it may concern that hears it, on whom it depends to fix it.
And the masks?
The controversy over masks has also haunted
Fernando Simón
throughout this pandemic year
.
First no, then yes, then they said no because there weren't.
Fernando Simón was in purgatory,
Fernando Simón
needed to free himself.
"We do not recommend masks because there were not in part, but also because there were not enough masks and other mechanisms had to be found. I still think that the mask is not key, it is key if you cannot have other protection measures. Propose such
a measure to It was not possible for everyone to wear masks
because there were no masks and because not all of us have to wear them. The masks are for those who are sick to wear, the problem is that we don't know who is sick and that is why we have to wear them. "
I can say it louder, but not clearer.
Yes, they did not recommend the use of the mask because there were no masks, but also because for
Fernando Simón
the use of the
mask
is generalized due to the type of virus with which we have had to fight.
Fernando Simón's anger with a question from Évole
Masks, protection, a state of alarm, one or two things and Sánchez's optimism and euphoria, which
Fernando Simón
understood, but which were not in the same line as his department.
"If you look at those days we continued to maintain a very cautious tone," he said.
The same tone that he maintains now with that of saving the
San José
Bridge
and
Holy Week
.
He would have applied more restrictive measures at Christmas, he would apply them now, but "whatever is decided, whatever can be done, the population has to understand that we all have to get out of hand and that we have to protect ourselves."
Because although
Simón
continues to maintain that in a month and a half or two we will be in a very favorable situation, he is clear that everything depends on us, on those of us at home, on those of us who have the responsibility to save ourselves and others.
"If we manage to avoid the transmission in San José and during Easter, I believe that this prediction of 1.5 will be in a very favorable situation
. What is not acceptable is that as I said that I already skip everything
. That way it will not be fulfilled ".
Fernando Simón
answered everything, got wet in his own way in everything, crossed the door of purgatory and only revealed himself with one question, with his salary.
I think that very few times we have seen
Fernando Simón
angry or without that communicative ability to say things by giving you a slap, but looking like he is giving you a caress.
However, last night there was a question from
Jordi Évole
with which he could not maintain his cordial and friendly tone.
"Does it pay off financially?" Asked
Évole
.
The answer could not have been clearer and more blunt: "I'm going to give you a quick count of working hours for my team and the teams from the rest of the autonomous communities: during the worst moments of the pandemic we have worked 14-16 hours on average the 7 days a week.
I have been working these 6-7 months as if I had worked 3 years
. We continue to work in relaxed periods 12-14 hours a day. I am doing it for my work, for my country, for the global population. No I'm going to have trouble eating and paying for electricity, that's good for me.
Why do I want to get rich
".
It was not necessary to add more, but he did: "... And if a pandemic reappears and officials have been overexposed, it is very easy for officials to say this for someone else to eat."
He does not want fame, he does not want to be remembered as nothing when all this is over, he prefers to be remembered what the toilets did, what the toilets need, what the
Public Health
has worked on
.
He wants that when all this is over they no longer recognize him.
"
Let them forget about me
. I don't think my person has a greater interest. I have no interest in people remembering me."
It will be difficult, Mr.
Simon
, very difficult ...
According to the criteria of The Trust Project
Know more
Fernando Simon
Jordi Évole
See links of interest
2021 business calendar
Bologna - Sampdoria
Baxi Manresa - Urbas Fuenlabrada
Movistar Students - RETAbet Bilbao Basket
Southampton - Brighton and Hove Albion
Nîmes - Montpellier