November 18, 2020
The spokesperson and deputy of VOX in the General Meeting, Ignacio Blanco, in the ‘Questions to the President’ turn that took place today in the Plenary of the General Meeting of the Principality formulated the following question:
Will you lift the perimeter closures and allow the immediate opening of the businesses that you closed, credited with your failure to manage the crisis?
And then he made the following intervention:
President, your measures, as we anticipate, could not even with the pandemic, on the contrary, they have triggered infections, and have ruined thousands of Asturians. The more restrictive its measures, the worse Asturias is. Acknowledge your mistakes and stop justifying yourself.
The community that has grown the most in infections since last November 3 when it decreed the closure of non-essential activities. The most restrictive measures in Spain. And here is the result. The worst evolution in the country by far.
Some capricious closings with no scientific basis, because even you recognized that if activities are closed in which there are hardly any outbreaks, it is because they are looking for "the closest thing to home confinement." That is, they should not be closed because there are no sprouts, but they still close them. That in law is called fraud, it does not have the competence to confine people to domiciliary and knowing that there are activities without relevant outbreaks, it closes them to achieve or that the law does not allow it.
To offer aid that will be insufficient and will arrive late, and also does not have time to request them with a collapsed request page. He is playing recklessly with the life and well-being of many Asturians with his measures.
The community that grows the most in infections. The community with one of the highest death rates, and the highest ICU bed occupancy rate. This is not a second wave, it is a tsunami. The Asturian tsunami.
His measurements have sent more than 12,000 Asturians to the ERTEs in the last 15 days. People who already resort to confinement to work. It is another of their miracles, to get locked up in protest because they are prohibited from working. They ask to earn a living.
Last Monday, it announced more restrictive measures, although the hotel industry, commerce, culture and sports are recharged on them, when there is no proof that they are a relevant source of contagion and even you recognize.
And, coincidentally, a number of infections coincides, which helps him justify a measure. I want to draw attention to this because whenever you announce a press conference, a fact that favors you at the time of making the announcement coincides. Surprisingly this Monday the number of infections falls dramatically, so that you can say at the press conference on Monday that your measures are working. What a coincidence, but it's that his typex goblin always gives good figures on Mondays. Isn't it a bit suspicious that of the 10,105 positives, since October 23, the highest proportion is detected on Fridays and the lowest on Monday? You are handling the data for political use.
This situation is reached by lack of anticipation, to now fall into precipitation.
The infections began to skyrocket in August, after his self-promotion campaign, claiming an Asturian miracle of low infection rates, which we already said was not his doing, as we are seeing in this tsunami, but rather from our isolation that, broken in August by his reckless management leads to this tsunami of infection.
Wait until October 23 to do something relevant, but counterproductive, as we've seen. Perimeter closures of Gijón, Oviedo and Avilés. Request a state of alarm and home confinement. That midnight the hourly restrictions in hospitality come into effect. October 26 announces the closure of Asturias, and the curfew, not even three days had passed.
You do not wait for one measure to take effect before applying another. Since August doing nothing and then everything at once. Lack of anticipation and haste. And now they announce more perimeter closures.
And finally, on November 3, he again turned his lack of foresight and his mistakes into all Asturians, with measures from 200 years ago. With the closure of all non-essential activity for at least fifteen days. To take these measures, I believe that epidemiologists are not needed.
His measurements do not correspond to the advancement of our society. The closures of shops and hotels occurred on the occasion of the Justinian plague in 541 AD. C. (6th century). A counterproductive measure since the hospitality industry is an activity that orders social interaction, in which the way we interact socially can be regulated and controlled. Outside of there nobody can control anything.
The perimeter closures are not measures of our era either. The term "sanitary cordon" was born in France in the 19th century when in 1821 Paris sent 30,000 soldiers to block the border with Spain, in order to prevent the spread of a yellow fever epidemic.
I never thought that epidemiology looked so much like Egyptology, because the measures you propose are almost as old as the pharaohs. It would be better to change scientists to historians because that is what they are doing: resorting to measurements from centuries ago. We have not yet seen the effort they are making in the residences. 50% of the deceased are still in residences, force the use of QR codes, establish protocols to increase immunological protection against the virus, resort to massive confinement of the population instead of selective confinements to positives or contacts of an outbreak, and not confine the entire population.
Its measures are not to invest in prevention, its measures are to wait for it to happen and put the burden on the shoulders of Asturians. You should take a step in the right direction, run a society with 21st century standards for 21st century citizens, and not resort to recipes from the pharaohs because you rule for citizens, not slaves.
Thanks a lot.
