The emergency, the product of the spread of Covid 19, has had repercussions at all levels, generating an atypical scenario and very different from that we had planned for this height of the year. However, the way to deal with this and other contingencies will be decisive in order to overcome and overcome the challenges and problems.
The current context represents an opportunity for unity, first of the inhabitants, and also of unity as a country, to bring back essential values of coexistence – love, solidarity, altruism, fraternity and empathy – as well as to generate the necessary understanding for the infected, sick and elderly.
The circumstances that we live today are a great opportunity to overcome the culture of mistrust and negativism, of excessive and constant criticism, of seeing only what is wrong. It is the time to eradicate this mentality that we are the perfect ones, we know it and we do everything right and better; while the others are the incapable, the exploiters or the enemies. It is the time to put aside suspicions, discrepancies and prejudices, as well as typical corporate defenses and the constant desire to draw credits for an ideological sector or interest group.
Now, it is an opportunity for us to restore trusts between all of us, and unteen in front of this invisible enemy that can attack the health of any of us.
It is the opportunity to value the positive, to thank what we have, to believe in the good faith and will of the other. Therefore, we believe in our authorities, who are doing their best through their actions; we believe in the authorities of our health system and the workers who sacrifice there for any of us; we believe in school managers, who strive to continue operating and educating our children. We believe in the authorities of our universities, who are making the best efforts, investing enormous capacities and resources of all kinds, to ensure the continuity and sustainability of the country’s higher education.
There are current times when we are fighting for human lives. There is a need to focus on the essentials, which forces us to prioritize resources, interests and demands. Hence our urgent call to take responsibility, exercise self-criticism first, be proactive and think of the good of all. Only with unity and civic cohesion can we make this crisis as low as possible. It is a task of all, and part by acting with goodwill and good faith.
Finally, these are also moments to thank those thousands of health workers who risk their own health and that of their families, the workers who leave their homes daily to keep supply chains operational, and so many others who, following a deep vocation of service, contribute to the common good.
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