Deputy PP and Head of the Home Inpatient Unit of the Doctor Negrín Hospital in Gran Canaria, Miguel Angelo Ponce, received a seizure massive tweets from deniers the covid vaccine and the use of masks insulting him and calling him a “killer”. “It must have been a mess to look someone you vaccinated in the face” or “you health workers are the direct accomplices of the excess of deaths” make up some of the messages that began to arrive last Monday, which in a few hours have become a real and own flurry of offensive tweets. The same doctor denounced in his report that although “anti-vaccine messages are common” he suffered eithern genuine harassment of deniers, only «for having worked during this pandemic as a doctor and deputy against a virus that has killed many in the Canary Islands.
It is not the first time that the well-known pulmonologist and deputy of the PP receives this type of insults either it’s shit meat. In 2020, in the midst of a pandemic, they supplanted his voice in an audio where the false Ponce said the virus is an exaggeration and everyone should be calm. It was a viral hoax that circulated on social networks and Whatsapp. Ponce had to ask not to share and remove it. Eventually it turned out that he was being imitated by a fellow health worker who was penalized by hospital directors, says the doctor.
Since that year, the messages have arrived mainly through his Twitter account -which opened when he was elected deputy of the PP in 2019-, with maxims like “doctors kill people, the vaccines are all lies, they are poisoning us, the masks are a scam or are bought by the industry ”, he complains. But suddenly Monday “it was a blast” of tweetsexposes annoyed, amazed and very worried “about the number of deniers out there, saying that the vaccines contain poison and that they are killing “, a message that, in his opinion, is penetrating the public and that transcends the same covid vaccine: “People are afraid to get vaccinated even for the flu”assures Ponce. He is generating a kind of “Vanophobia” very harmful to the health of the population and the health authorities must intervene in this regard, ruling.
excess mortality
And why this sudden harassment? Miguel Ángel Ponce explains that a month ago he appeared at the Parliament of the Canary Islands to ask the Minister of Health, Blas Trujillo, carry out an audit to find out the causes of the increase in mortality found in the Canary Islands this year, as the Archipelago is the fourth community with more excess mortality with nearly 1,800 more deaths than expected, which represents a 14% increase, he reports.
“And that’s where it all started,” he reflects. Appearances began to call him everything: ‘Rascal, this is because of the vaccines; they are killing people, murderer, how can you look those who vaccinate in the face “and a thousand other precautions. Also, he explains that he opened his own in 2019 he had a photo without a mask and when the pandemic arrived he updated it with one with a mask and in bad time. “You’re a cynic, get out with this and the mask right away. Are you starting to back down? None of you will escape “, or with” that disgusting mask, his neuron does not allow him to think “…
“A terrible thing and also with more than 500 retweets, or hundreds of people! “exclaims astonished. In fact she has chosen for blocking a hundred people.
The deputy of the PP understands that the debate on the The excess of mortality is surprising and the authorities must clarify the causes. “In the Canary Islands in 2022 there are four times more deaths than in 2021 with the same pandemic, and perhaps because there is covid that has not been accounted for or due to delays or poor accessibility to the health systemHe reflects. The excess mortality in 2022 compared to 2021 is about 1,800 patients, explains Ponce, and death from covid is about 1,000 people, that is, there is 40% – about eight hundred deaths – that are not explained.
“Vacunophobia is gaining more and more strength and the authorities must come out and clearly state that vaccines save lives, and as regards the possible mortality they must explain that out of 105 million doses administered in Spain there were 420 deaths possibly attributable to the vaccine, or 0.0001%“, points out.
Death threats
Ponce is not the only one to have been the subject of attacks by deniers who hide under pseudonyms behind social networks. The President of the Spanish Association of Vaccinology and Head of the Epidemiology and Prevention Section of the General Directorate of Public Health of the Canary Islands, Amos Garcia Rojaslast year he received death threats which he placed in the hands of the national police. In addition, a small group of anti-vaccines took advantage of the visit in January of this year health consultant until mass vaccination Infected, in Gran Canaria, to scold him. “Rascal” or “murderer” were some of the curses that accompanied the whistle.
Amós García has received insults on the street and on social networks, but claims that there are more friendly people than offensive. He believes that denier groups are getting stronger lately, curiously when we see more of the measures to control the pandemic and the vaccine. have taken effect and this did not happen apocalyptic endbut on the contrary, they had foreseen.
For the deputy of the PP, health authorities must stop this situation and report, because “people have an irrational fear of getting vaccinated”. “It is a shame that anyone doubts that if we saw an adverse effect of the vaccine we would not report it,” she points out.. He regrets that he has gone from “applause in the pandemic to insults, attacks and distrust” encouraged by these denier groups.
Regarding the masks, rejected even by the deniers, he has something very clear. The influenza A hits children hardand even at the hospital level they perceive that it was early the usual wave of January, because for two years it has been circulating very little thanks to the masks and very little immunity has been generated. “This is why his conditions are advanced, and this is why the use of masks is recommended, use not mandatory, but if someone notices symptoms, use it because it protects others” and, therefore, recommends the solidarity mask
