In the coming weeks, like each and every year at that time, Spain will start the return to university activity. The challenge is that this is a year away from the general: let’s be honest, this is a deep year; and my country is not behaving like a country in general either.
In short, it is clear that Spain has mis handlered the covid-19 effect. The term trolling virus, recently used through the Washington Post, is quite accurate: Spain ranks ninth in the world ranking of the number of infections, however only because those above, with the exception of Peru, have much larger populations. If we take a relative parameter, such as the number of deaths consistent with millions of inhabitants, only Belgium and Peru above us, and it is quite imaginable that the Belgian case is due to other accounting criteria.
We would probably be outraged by the way the United States has treated the pandemic, thanks to the pathetic individual who has lately occupied the White House, but the truth is that, this country is much smaller, in relative terms, Spain has done much Again, with the sole exception of Peru, knowledge shows that Spain’s control of the stage has been much worse than the rest of the world evolved , and has been controlled to prevent saturation of your fitness system, as soon as he has lifted the blockade. , the rate of infection and mortality has increased rapidly.
The reasons why a country with an intelligent fitness formula has one of the countries with the highest number of deaths consistent with millions are complex and not fully known, however, the existing scenario should at least lead us to think and ask for more management of the power Less consignments, less triumphalism and more studies than other countries are doing and what we do not , or what we are doing and they are not doing it all over the world, only the United Kingdom and the United States are noticed through their populations that they are doing a worse task than Spain in managing the pandemic, and the truth is that the citizens of those countries are judges more difficult than the Spaniards : the truth is that our government has done much worse than theirs.
In the United States, however, many schools and campuses that resume activity are already closed, either indefinitely or for a few days to perform large disinfection operations, even though surface transmission is now known to be almost non-existent.
Pandemic research is progressing, and it is now transparent that there are a number of very troubling problems when we return to class: it is transparent that the transmission mechanism is basically through aerosol breathing, the tiny drops of saliva we release. when we breathed, coughed or communicated. As a result, infection rates increased dramatically after nightclubs were allowed to reopen and soon closed again. communicate with others.
We know that this type of transmission occurs in other enclosed places such as classrooms, and at much greater distances than we thought, and that poor ventilation and room tenure time are the main spread points of the virus. that dating between young people and the virus is incredibly complex: they are not invulnerable and, in many cases, can transmit the disease easily, even if they are asymptomatic, while the viral load in their respiratory formula is higher. I don’t know how many young people transmit or why they don’t have symptoms when they have the virus.
These are not opinions: I present facts, and studies move at an immediate pace, I am a biologist, I can read and interpret knowledge and studies, and I review to make rigorous my resources, I am not a sower in panic, nor am I obsessed with the pandemic: I am a teacher and, like the rest of my colleagues, I will return to training this week, but I am not very afraid, and nothing would make me happier than wrong , that the situations under which Spain returns to the classroom are insufficient and can lead to a significant increase in the number of cases.
I am also involved in the lack of an emergency plan in the process of a strong accumulation of new cases, as well as the lack of preparedness for a mass vaccination campaign. An immediate deployment of a vaccine, when available, is critical, as ours is an open and tourism-dependent economy.
The first trimester has even begun, and Spain’s school report is this: it may do better, much better. If this disappoints your ideas, the consequences can be simply disastrous.
Professor of innovation at EI Business School since 1990, and now, school of piracy as a senior for virtual transformation at IE University. BSc (University of
Professor of innovation at the EI Business School since 1990, and now, school of piracy as senior for virtual transformation at IE University BSc (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela), MBA (Instituto de Empresa) and Ph. D. Management Information Systems (UCLA) ).