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Actually, I wanted to interview Fernando Simón, but he didn't want to. I hope you don't mind being second course ... Viruses don't feel bad being second course, the important thing is to be there. As director of communication for the coronavirus in Spain, how do you rate your arch enemy? At the very least, you have been very brave. , the guy has been showing his face every day. It is true that man will be persecuted throughout his life by a few mistakes that he has had, especially at the beginning of the pandemic, but he has not been the only one. In the end, this has happened all over the world. I would not like to be in the shoes of any of those who have had to communicate what happened. Let's get back to yours. How does someone from
community manager end
of the coronavirus? Without thinking and without planning it. It is impossible. I am a very tweeter, I love it, and suddenly one day I said: 'There is no virus on Twitter explaining its story. There are characters of all kinds, there are parodies of all kinds, but there are no viruses. ' When I see this, I don't know that there is going to be a pandemic, I thought it was going to be something like what Ebola was in Spain, but there were a lot of circumstances that favored the character to become famous. We were all aware of what was happening, it is a historical event, and this made it easier for the character to take off. And from there, I suppose that with all those circumstances and a bit of grace I become the director of communication of the coronavirus. When did you realize that the joke had gotten out of hand? The state of alarm is the inflection point.I even consider closing the account, I did not expect this. Until then we were all taking it as a joke in some way, but there I say: 'I think I'm going to stop.' And there were several people who told me that humor will never hurt us, that it is necessary. I even heard on a radio program someone saying that humor should not be abandoned, that it keeps us mentally healthy. And I decided to continue, changing the tone and, above all, with one goal: to enhance the measures offered by the experts. At that time, I already had more than half a million followers, so I decided to lower my tone and disseminate through humor and keeping the character, explaining what things were not good for the virus. Yes, never talk about the victims. That was very clear to him.There have been tweets that I have read and reread because my intention has always been good. Obviously, someone can be offended. Also, on Twitter you say "good morning" and there are people who scold you. I love black humor, but this was a delicate moment. How many tweeters lynchings has suffered in this pandemic? I have lost count, every day the
trolls
, they are tireless. It is the habitat of Twitter, and I think we have to get used to that. I already know that if I publish something there is someone who will not feel good and there will be debates around that. I see a lot of people leaving Twitter for precisely that reason. Oysters, it is a victory for them! I would not do it. I think you have to learn to live with that, it is part of the context of Twitter. There are so many insults, and so indiscriminately, that in the end you get immunized, it's like a vaccine.
What is the most beautiful and the ugliest thing that they have said to you? There are people who have told me: 'I follow the news of the pandemic through your account because it is a different way of informing myself, with humor, and I can put up with this '. The ugliest thing, which in the end I took it with humor, was that they had my IP address and that they were going to come to my house to look for me. I told them that if they came, to wear a mask, please, and do you bond a lot as a
community manager?
As a virus ... imagine, I'm polyamorous! [laughs]. Well, people write to you, but not too many either. People are respectful, modest. They don't know what's behind ... Hasn't anyone discovered him? A tweeter did guess who he was, but we knew each other before. And a co-worker. With some clues, yes. He does not show his face, what can you tell us about the man behind the tweets? I have no interest in being known and I think it does not make much sense. In the end, I prefer to be known for the things I have done. I work with people. I am a social educator, I have studied Neuropsychology, too. I'm a person who consumes humor, and ... well, I don't know, a bit addicted to social networks, a bit addicted to mobile. Sometimes I wish I could loosen up a bit, but I have written a book, in the end they have brought me good things.His book is titled
How to stealthily end humanity
. Man, sneakily ... He's actually a hottie. Pandemics are angry with human beings for how little they take care of the planet. Viruses need hosts, and humans are wonderful hosts. Has the
community
been vaccinated in a timely manner?
Covid? Of course, for a long time. For work I was vaccinated early. And I have not been infected, anyway. I think that since I work for him we have a non-aggression pact. You repeat in the book that viruses have no ideology, but for being Chinese he has got a very Spanish virus, very politicized. Sometimes he thought not to make ideological tweets, But I wasn't accountable to anyone either, and it seemed almost like an exercise in transparency. It is true that everything is excessively polarized, it seems that there are no middle points: you are either a communist or a fascist. In the end, on birthdays, at family gatherings, at Christmas we sit with people who don't have the same ideology as us and we live together and have good times. Before you could meet people on the left who had doubts about whether abortion was good,or right-wing people against bullfighting. Now there seems to be a
pack
. It is super sane to doubt what is happening. Let's not lose that. After this sociological study: does humanity have a remedy? If I had to bet, I would say no. There is another part that is hopeless and we are seeing it. Denialism has not been born now, what happens is that it is very easy to be a denier and anti-vaccines in Europe. I once heard a nurse say: 'The anti-vaccine go to Africa.' As a neuropsychologist, what have you learned? Resilience, adaptive capacity. If in January 2020 they tell you that you are going to be stuck in your house for three months, you go crazy. And we have been three months and then with a lot of restrictions. You have to open the melon of mental health. I am seeing it for work, the pandemic has already done a lot of emotional damage. Please clarify this point for me once: Covid or Covid? Both are correct,But the RAE made me a woman. Will we get better? No. We're already dating and we should have started seeing it, right?
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