Today is Thursday, noon on Thursday, the last day of 2020. “Until Monday in all of Cantabria they can only treat her at the Hospital de Liencres. No Health Center could attend her until Monday.” There is in a village of Liébana, going up to the port of San Glorio, an 81-year-old woman with severe symptoms of illness, perhaps a Covid-19 because one of her daughters tested positive for this pandemic yesterday, and there is no there is no way for a doctor to go up to see her, nor any other possibility to get out of doubts about the contagion of going down tomorrow Friday, the first day of 2021, to the hospital of Liencres, by his own means, to undergo a test for discard a Covid, she and two more of her children, also at some risk of infection.
“You have to go down to Liencres.” The sentence is forceful. You take it or leave it.
Going down to Liencres?
“Wouldn’t it be more reasonable, fairer and more prudent for Liencres to go up?
The patient is 81 years old and is, without a doubt, to be seen by a doctor at her home.
Well no. Liencres does not move.
Liencres is the abracadabra of regional medicine between Thursday 31 December and Monday 4 January, the enchantment of Revilla, the tricks of those who know nothing else, in terms of pandemics, than babbling farfullas.
I write in the middle of the afternoon and we walk inexorably towards the night that closes a sinister year, among other terrible misfortunes, because the authorities do not live up to what was expected. So they want to thunder:
Put on Revilla!
But how to talk to President Revilla, who says so much when he starts saying it.
Where is Revilla at this hour?
And the counselor?
The councilor has already told us on the phone that the councilor cannot do anything.
It is empty Spain.
How not to empty Cantabria with these behaviors of the authorities. The prodigious thing is that it is no longer completely empty.
He usually threatens Revilla, the president (it is a saying), who will demand more budget in Madrid because this region has a very dispersed population, and very small towns, and counties, very isolated, and therefore needs extra money to serve ‘ns.
Pardiez, what a great idea!
They do not believe: embarrassment of bad preacher.
For now, this long bridge to 2021, what is offered is …
Travel to Liencres for the New Year!
Then they complain that the infections are multiplying …
Put on Revilla!