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Given the antecedents, the decision should not have been so surprising, but the

outrage

was such that the government of the province of Buenos Aires, the most powerful in Argentina, had to reverse and get out of the trap it had gotten into.

A trap from a simple question: Football or vaccines?

And the provincial Health Ministry chose soccer.

In Buenos Aires, ruled by Peronism, unlike the city of the same name, the country's capital and the strength of the opposition coalition Together for Change, the vaccination operation has a

strong political bias

.

Governor Axel Kicillof, a disciple of Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, prevents the use of municipal vaccinations whenever possible, because almost half of the 135 municipalities in the province are in the hands of the opposition.

So they opted for large spaces,

schools and football stadiums,

all under the control of "La Cámpora", the most radical organization of the ruling Kirchnerism.

One of those vaccination sites is the Unique Stadium in La Plata, the capital of the province of Buenos Aires.

There the match between River and Atlético Tucumán for the Argentine Cup should be played on Wednesday night.

Thus, this morning many retirees - the vaccination is for now only for those

over 70 years old

- found that their appointment for the vaccination had been canceled.

The reason?

It was necessary to

"prepare the stadium" for the football match.

Twitter, usually boisterous and tense in Argentina, erupted with criticism.

And with good reason: the provincial government has been insisting on restricting activities and returning to something closer to the hard quarantine of the beginnings of the covid pandemic.

The second wave is reaching Argentina, with special fear for the two

Brazilian strains.

So, did it make sense to privilege soccer over vaccinated people?

The question offers such an obvious answer that in the afternoon the Kicillof government

backed down

and enabled all those vaccinated by appointment for this Wednesday to receive their doses, in addition to giving the option of doing it on Saturday to those who had been frustrated today.

"It's crazy,"

summed up the mayor of La Plata, Julio Garro, a member of the opposition.

While the country prepares for the new restrictions, which everything indicates that they will be announced while the ball is already rolling in La Plata, many commented on social networks about the profound logic of the rectified decision this Wednesday: Argentina lived a strict quarantine until the 26th of November 2020 the wake of

Diego Maradona

was celebrated

.

President Alberto Fernández gave the Casa Rosada as headquarters and the ceremony was a great and dangerous lack of control.

That time football also prevailed over logic.

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