Yesterday a friend who was always informed called me: “I have read your last week’s columns on the Constitutional and the stupid lack of consensus between the Government and the PP. You are right, but you are giving a too pessimistic bias of the Spanish reality. In the vaccination and people’s attitude to the coronavirus we are better than other more advanced countries. You have to tell it. Sometimes it seems that we are the worst in the class and we are not”.
True, in serious matters such as the political climate or the Catalan crisis we are going bad, very bad. But it would be wrong to conclude that we are going to catastrophe because in other things – vaccination and social attitude towards the pandemic – we are better than other countries around us.
Right behind Canada Y Britain (55% of the population has received both doses), we are the country in the world, with a significant population (not Bahrain), with 54% having a higher percentage of the vaccinated population. Ahead of United States, that with Biden it seemed that they were going to eat the world and that they are almost stagnant at 49%. And ahead of the average EU (46%) and Germany (49,4%), Italy (48.5%), Y France (44.3%). And even that Swiss (46.3%), a mecca of liberal capitalism, or Sweden (39%), social democratic model.
The pandemic is a global problem and while countries like Morocco, which is far from being the worst, have a percentage of vaccinated of 27%, the pandemic will continue. And new variants will emerge, such as the delta, which now strongly attack the unvaccinated population of all countries. The fear of the delta has made us bitter in July and is a threat to the economy. And some recent stock market declines are attributed to her.
The doctor Fauci, the great adviser to the American Government – attacked by Trump and applauded by Biden – says that the great drama of the United States is that the brake on vaccination is increasing infections caused by the delta. They have gone from 3.4 per 100,000 inhabitants at the beginning of June to 15.7 on July 24. Y if vaccination does not rise, new variants will emerge Against which the vaccine will be less effective (none is 100%). In Great Britain, 17% of those who were positive for the delta variant had already received both doses. The good news is that the infected vaccinated with the two doses hold up better, require less hospitalization and enter little in the ucis. The great American drama is that 35% of those not yet vaccinated are totally opposed to receiving it and 45% moderately opposed. This social attitude against the vaccine it is what alarms Dr. Fauci.
In France, Parliament has just approved a law to bind all hospital staff and of nursing homes for the elderly to be vaccinated or suspended from employment and salary (the project provided for dismissal). And the health passport (or the negative test) will be mandatory, pending the decision of the Constitutional Court on August 5 (not in several months), for entry into museums, cinemas, restaurants and even – still unclear – outdoor bar terraces and restaurants.
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And the Macron proposal is already a success because since its announcement millions of French people have signed up for vaccination lists. Were they less afraid of infection, or even death, than of being banned from cinemas and restaurants?
Here the percentage of vaccination is high and the rebellion against the vaccine is very minor. My friend is right, there are things – perhaps decisive – in which we are doing better.
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