Corpses Lie For Days As Ecuador Struggles To Keep Up With COVID-19 Deaths
Enough of the deception. We risk our lives and the Health System x
State CAS: Only the repeal of the privatization laws and the shielding of public health will prevent the dismantling they are preparing.
Almost a year after the start of the pandemic and already in the third wave, the worst omens have been confirmed. While the majority of the population condemns the management of the crisis and the public health system is in shock, it is undeniable, as we already denounced, that the pandemic has been a business opportunity for those of always 1, while it has allowed to give a a new turn of the screw in the process of privatization of health.
What could have been an opportunity to rescue public health has become business and entertainment. With all the political parties in agreement 2, each one has returned to its role. The right wing has taken the opportunity to further degrade public centers by privatizing any health activity; meanwhile, the institutional left has looked the other way allowing the right to do its dirty work. The huge waiting lists and the lack of response from the public system have given a new push to hundreds of thousands of people towards private insurance 3
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All this also happens when the living conditions of millions of people collapse: new cuts are expected in the already very precarious public pensions and the tragedy of mass unemployment spreads with its procession of evictions, overcrowding, power cuts, water and gas for defaults and daily despair in the working-class neighborhoods; precisely in which the pandemic by Covid 19 is primed.
At the same time, governments of all colors are taking advantage of this situation to impose repressive measures that would otherwise have strong social opposition. With the excuse of the virus, they have militarized our streets, and the social control of the population is a fact that has been incorporated into our daily normality with little question. The experience of other countries has shown us that, the weaker the health systems, the more need they have had to apply medieval confinements. Curiously, there is economic availability for all this deployment, but not to provide public health centers with the necessary resources (spaces, personnel, individual protection equipment, etc.) to adequately attend to this pandemic. All this while misery takes over the lives of millions of people. We want health and social measures, not police.
At this point we reaffirm ourselves: as long as the "most progressive government in history" maintains the privatization laws, nothing that the right wing does on a daily basis is illegal, and the dismantling of public health and private profit will continue. In effect, absolutely nothing of the massive transfer of public money to capital carried out in different Autonomous Communities (construction of unnecessary hospitals, transfer to private companies of tracking, immunizations, hitting with unnecessary drugs 4 ...) is illegal since it is supported by laws of scope state that allow it.
Meanwhile, the "left of capital" has devoted itself to the most varied performances, directing the attention of the population towards the perpetrators of the disaster, skillfully concealing those who pull the strings of the process of destruction of healthcare. To continue doing street theater against the right to occupy newspaper pages is nothing more than a distraction maneuver. The only way to recover the public health system is to force all parties to shield health care against profit, and to promote primary care and public health. Everything else is pure show for complacency.
Now they announce 8,000 million euros of EU funds, they say that "to strengthen public services", when it is expected that they are allocated to "public-private collaboration". This euphemism, which we already know well, means that, if we do not avoid it, public health will continue to agonize, while large corporations will be the main beneficiaries of the European economic recovery fund. A huge bazaar is underway. For almost 20 years we have been denouncing the privatization of healthcare and those responsible for it, and the "left of capital" refuses to eliminate the causes. We can't keep doing bad medicine. We must act on the root causes and open a debate throughout the State about the healthcare model we want, which must begin by guaranteeing quality healthcare for all people, democratizing the system and focusing on social, economic and social determinants. environmental conditions of the disease.
One Balloon, two Glovos, three Balloons
By David Torres: Feudalism is back in fashion, who would have thought. Since an enraged ayatollah put a price on Salman Rushdie's head for mocking Muhammad in a novel, the Middle Ages has not stopped gaining ground in the West, between the return of religious fundamentalisms and the gradual loss of elemental rights.
We thought, naive of us, that social networks were going to make us freer, more aware, more people, without realizing that they are called networks for something. It is the same paradox by which television, which could have been the greatest educational and informative instrument of the last century, gradually became, channel by channel, a dunghill full of shit, a henhouse full of idiotic contests and social gatherings. goal.
It was Adam Smith, the father of liberalism, who warned that "merchants of the same trade rarely get together, even to have a good time, without ending up conspiring against the public or for some concerted rise in prices." The economist who defended the freedom of the market added that he could not think of a tyranny worse than a government made up of merchants. It is a tragic irony that the hell imagined by Adam Smith has come true thanks to the inventiveness of a few slave traders, the complicity of governments, the discrediting of solidarity, the pachorra of the unions and the blindness of masses unable to see They don't even serve as cannon fodder anymore. The neo-slavery promoted by companies such as Amazon, Cabify, Glovo, Uber or Deliveroo is based on social acquiescence, the old principle by which the slave does not want to be free: he wants to be a master.
The impudence and obscenity of this modern race of exploiters knows no limits, to the point that they announce each of their plunder as if it were a new conquest of social rights. In this way, Sacha Michaud, co-founder of Glovo, has sung the virtues of its business model, advocating for greater labor flexibility, the possibility that any of his servants on wheels could fall apart in Milan, Lisbon or Barcelona, without bosses, doing two or three jobs at a time. The serenity with which this bicycle chain salesman talks about the wonderful prospects open to his workers is chilling, condemned to pedal twelve or thirteen hours a day for shitty pay and in terrible working conditions. Perhaps the foremen on the Alabama slave plantations, back in 1857, were also praising how healthy it was for their slaves to pick cotton from sunrise to sunset by breaking their backs.
The panorama that is thrown on us cannot be more disgusting. There is only one way to end this ignominy: never turn to Glovo, Deliveroo, Cabify, Uber, Amazon, any of these companies that consider that workers' rights are written on toilet paper. A key term in this bumper is "flexibility," which in the case of Glovo's vassals refers both to the pornographic agility with which they clean the underside of their employers and their ability to avoid fenders in traffic. The other key term is 'freedom', referring exclusively to the freedom to keep slaves. Freedom for what, Lenin wondered. For this.
