The hantavirus outbreak on the Dutch cruise ship was detected late and poorly, and here we are, urgently searching for passengers who were in contact with the infected and counting cases of people who have self-isolated in Singapore or are under surveillance in the United States. And the Spanish government has not presented the best image of coordination on such a sensitive matter.
However, the situation does not justify the political and informational hysteria that the case has unleashed. The Canary Islands government does not want the ship, as if having the ship in port would automatically infect the population; Ayuso, not content with going to Mexico to provoke dressed as a conqueror, wonders why they have to bring affected people to Madrid (as if they didn't have a reference hospital there), and the PP goes around shouting "This is chaos!" on every corner.
Please, we are a member state of the European Union, a First World country, capable of treating contacts and infected individuals, and, moreover, we have recent experience of a pandemic. According to experts, there is no risk that hantavirus will be a second global coronavirus. What do we want, to leave the ship adrift? To win a few votes by alarming the population? And do the media want to gain a few tenths of an audience by making videos with disaster music and funeral voices to spread fear?
There is a miserable virus, much worse than all real viruses, which is that of preying on everything without people mattering at all, scaring them and reducing them to their most selfish condition. If the situation were to become complicated, accusations and catastrophism would be of no use to us. Either we trust the health authorities or we might as well lock ourselves at home. It is very shameful, truly.
