Antonio Navalón
We will never know how lucky we were to discover that we were mortal suddenly. It is practically impossible to reconstruct what the world cared about exactly a year ago when it was completely different from today. However, the second round has already arrived. It was written in the wind and the stars. It was foreseeable that some vaccines that had not met the minimum prediction time to know surprises would accompany the possible effects of introducing them into human bodies. But we don’t have a choice; it doesn’t matter if you like it or not. It doesn’t matter if you are afraid of the vaccine or not; we have reached a point of no return. Economies have collapsed. Work has stopped. We have replaced international travel with confinement and, worse, by not having the resources to move to a place other than where we currently reside, which has become the current universal situation.
Drawing the true accounts of this crisis will take a long time, especially because we must not forget that the truth that sets us free can only be discovered when we are really prepared to know it. A real overdose can kill us. Furthermore, when that truth is intrinsically related to the question of whether or not there will be a future from here on, it is a truth that must be answered clearly and concretely.
Covid-19 changed our lives and wiped the millennial planet as we knew it off the map. Before this crisis, being a millennial was defined by having a personality and particular characteristics determined based on the year in which one was born and according to the socio-economic context. However, Covid-19 has managed to get inside our being; it has changed our identities and personalities. One of his great achievements has been to have managed to tie us to a computer in a self-confinement and turn us all into a kind of millennials, in addition to having managed to become faithful followers of the Netflix religion.
Israel is still the chosen people, only this time – in addition to being chosen by God’s design – it is also by Pfizer. Thanks to the vaccine, the agreements, the speed, and the way things were done, surely Pfizer, its vaccine, and the success of the vaccination program carried out in Israel, will make Bibi Netanyahu consolidate for the fifth time as Prime Minister, this being the miracle of vaccines. In Israel, the decision has been made to open everything and give its citizens the freedom to do whatever they want, of course, as long as they have the vaccination card. If you are not vaccinated, it is as if you were a Jew in Hitler’s Germany. I am grateful that no type of social segregation practice has yet been c out to distinguish between vaccinated and those who have not received the vaccine. Regarding this, there is another example of the great power that vaccines have and will have in this new world, and that is that when one reads that the European Union will allow free transit between its countries, provided that one has their vaccination card, reflection on the world in which we currently live becomes an inevitable exercise. As of today, to circulate the world, it has a new passport called: the vaccine.
On an individual level, the second round consists of understanding the following questions and their respective answers: can we live without the vaccine? No. Will they let us get on a plane if we are not vaccinated? Neither. Will those who do not want to be vaccinated be socially excluded? Yes. What will be the consequences of the vaccine? That is something that still cannot be resolved. Today, what we are changing is the possibility of having problems tomorrow to avoid death today. We no longer have a choice. I will not be the first person who dares to prosecute those who allowed themselves to be pricked to acquire the vaccine. Still, I will be the one who dares to say that if we start by separating the world between those who have been vaccinated and those who have not, in the end, natural selection will be orchestrated and directed by vaccines. On some occasions, Mahatma Gandhi said: “An eye for an eye and the world will end up blind.” Does this mean that the 1,000 or 1,500 million people who would more or less lighten planet Earth must die without a vaccine? Without a doubt, we are opening a great debate in which there are no answers for anything and for almost no one. The only certain thing is that our freedoms have come to an end.
Today, we people are what is ordered to protect our lives. For anyone who has dreams of a dictator, this is the perfect situation to carry out any barbarity. At this moment, the people’s mentality is not in defense of their rights, not even in the rescue of the patrimony of their freedoms; all our mental and physical resources are focused on avoiding death and that the vaccine reaches us on time. The pandemic has been proof of how fragile our rights, freedoms have become and how simple it can do whatever is ‘necessary to preserve life.
And the rulers? The rulers are divided into two: those who make a rueful face and say that they care a lot and who do not care about anything, not even the number of deaths that this crisis causes. What’s more, the more dead, the better. For these leaders, who care little about their people, the Covid-19 pandemic made them move to the imaginations of J.R.R. Tolkien, suddenly becoming a modern representation of the Lord of the Rings. And it is that, in the end, death and universal catastrophe are like the right ring to consolidate his revolution. How naive we were to marvel at the cost of the Soviet revolution or the death toll at the hands of the Nazis. Covid-19 has been a social and collective conversion phenomenon that leaders such as Vladimir Lenin, Adolf Hitler, or Iósif Stalin would have wanted for themselves. So much killing people, so much taking away rights, so much using police officers and going after others when all you had to do was take away all of their rights to save their lives. Can you imagine what history would have been like if these rulers had had a situation like the current one in their hands?
The second round of this time is terrible, especially since there is no doubt that what awaits us is at least as horrifying as what we have already left behind. When one receives the vaccine, they are warned that infection is still possible; however, they are given hope that, from that moment, at least they will no longer die due to lack of supply of said dose. The chronic diseases that have killed the planet for the last 50 years, such as cancer, diabetes, or other diseases, it is as if they have magically ceased to exist or lost their importance. And it is that, since the Covid-19 exists, the only death that matters is that caused by the virus that has caused this pandemic. All other deaths are considered logical and collateral effects of what is called the craft of living.
How many dead will there be in India? Nobody knows, but in reality, nobody can know how many living there are in that country, so it is difficult to determine the real problem of the situation. How many tests are done in countries like Mexico or Brazil? What does it matter? The only test that really must be done in these countries is that of faith. If you believe in your leaders and what they believe in, there is no problem or situation to worry about.
This is the world that we lived in, and the only thing that consoles me is that now, faced with the brutality of the situation, the rulers can appear on television, and when asked if Vladimir Putin is a murderer, they, without any complex, they answer the question affirmatively. If the United States president is capable of doing that, imagine what the balances and universal stabilities are like.
We have entered the second round. It is based on those chosen, not those by God, but those chosen by Pfizer, AstraZeneca, Moderna, Sinovac, or the other pharmaceutical companies; those chosen by vaccines. I don’t even want to ask how we will be vaccinated in five years. I don’t even want to ask what will happen to our DNA when we have administered a dose that will change nothing less than our complete essence and our hallmark. Who said they were afraid of the possibility of an invasion by the Martians? Deep down, the coronavirus has ended up being like a gigantic invasion of aliens that changed the human condition. Nobody knows what we are, where we come from, or where we are going, except – of course – towards being part of the ranks to be vaccinated. God bless you!
