Regrowth present, latent second wave
Neither the central nor the autonomous governments can avoid their responsibilities.
The "New normal" it's an invention. Shortly after walking the consequences are being seen: Spain is the second country in the European Union where infections increased the most. I actually know tripled in two weeks, being Catalonia, Aragon and the Basque Country the most affected autonomies. It went from a centralized Alarm State, authoritarian and inefficient to decentralized autonomous measures, contradictory, confused and insufficient. The sprouts, still focused, they contain the latent danger of a second wave of infections and deaths.
In the first wave, the PSOE-UP government tried to hide its slow reaction, arguing that the virus took them by surprise., in a new and unknown situation. They were unacceptable excuses: the Covid-19 had demonstrated its speed of expansion and danger in China and Italy. The claim that there were "An exemplary health system for the world". It became clear with the lack of supplies, facilities, infrastructure and health personnel, as a result of the cuts and privatizations made by governments for decades. The deceased are the sad balance of adjustments and the "austerity" ordered by the European Union.
They hastened to decree the start of the "New normal" to receive tourists and move the wheel of business profits again.
Authorities warned of the possibility of a second wave, but they did not act accordingly. They hastened to decree the start of the "New normal" to receive tourists and move the wheel of business profits again. Social activities were limited, cultural and sports, but the obligation to go to work in whatever conditions remains, even in non-essential activities. further, according to data published in El País, Spain has only 3.500 contact trackers, when I would need more than 8.000 to control the epidemic and the PCR test does not reach the level necessary to be decisive. The measures adopted are so partial that they did not prevent the outbreaks.
At the time, Government officials (JxCat-ERC), with good reason, were critical of Pedro Sánchez's health management. Nevertheless, Now that the responsibility is in your hands, they are showing the same slowness and ineffectiveness. The confinement of Lleida was late and the measures for L´Hospitalet and Barcelona also, while in the Metropolitan Area, where infections spread most rapidly, confinement has the character of "suggestion".
On the other hand, public health did not improve, since the reinforcement template taken for the first wave was decreased. Regarding traces, they lost time and money in hiring Ferrovial, annulled by protests, and there are only a handful of trackers. Social aid measures, like those of the Spanish state government, not enough. yes, were quick to financially compensate private health for their "Efforts" during the pandemic. The population continues to pay the cost of the successive destruction of public health. In Spain, those responsible were M.Rajoy (PP) and Pedro Sánchez (PSOE). in Catalonia, the initial and continuing managers were Arthur Mas (CiU), Carles Puigdemont and Quim Torra (JxCat). There is a lousy public health management in which there are no great differences between the bourgeois governments.
… ink is being loaded on people's individual responsibility, fundamentally about the workers, lxs immigrants, lxs temporerxs and lxs young.
Shamefully, once again, ink is being loaded on people's individual responsibility, fundamentally about the workers, lxs immigrants, lxs temporerxs and lxs young. Of course, individual care is important, but the central thing is the correction or the mistake of the measures that the governments adopt, who are primarily responsible for managing the pandemic.
The mayor of Barcelona, Ada Colau, (We share) it was not different, his central campaign was for the arrival of tourism and the movement of the City, almost as if nothing happened, that's why he resists confinement.
Differences between the Spanish state government, the Government of Catalonia and the autonomous communities are diluted in their bourgeois character, at the service of capital interests and profits. Greater or lesser extent, all the parties they represent are responsible for the cuts made in healthcare, "wash your hands" of their responsibilities and avoid or delay confinement for political convenience, before the fatigue of the population by the situation, even more so in the middle of summer.
A public health system is needed, universal and free, and take effective and forceful measures without overriding social and democratic rights, no cuts, with increased educational budget. There is money to do it, charging progressive taxes on big fortunes, among other emergency measures. Layoffs must be prohibited, like the ones in progress at Nissan, nullify labor reform and prioritize life over capitalist profits.