Today it seems that it is fashionable to be a denial of something, there is no COVID-19, the earth is not round, vaccines do not work, there is no climate change. These denials may seem to us even sympathetic while arriving from anonymous people, but when it is a head of government that says it, it becomes something serious and extremely dangerous.
This fashion is becoming increasingly worrying, especially when you realize the lobbys that are created and that foster many of those denialisms, because we do not fool ourselves, where there is a denialism is more than likely we will find an economic interest.
Looking at a current issue, I hope that a day does not arrive in which I find a denial of fires, which says they are an invention to increase the crews that are in charge of turning them off, or something like that. If that day comes, I will please get out of the earth even if it is underway or begging to be abducted by any civilization of another planet that has at least one finger in front more than ours.
Denialism against COVID-19 has assumed countries like Brazil very high mortality levels, compared to countries that have adopted more drastic measures. Nothing more and nothing less than 6.45 million lives have been lost today throughout the planet due to COVID-19, something that although it is difficult to believe, there are people who deny.
But the most worrying thing about everything is what can happen in the future. A generalized populism is being implemented in the political classes of practically all countries, classes that have no modesty to deny the obvious, in unseening without blinking and lying like authentic Bellacos.
I do not want to enter into excess politics because one of the maxims of this blog was precisely not to enter those issues, but I cannot stop expressing concern for what has already been mentioned.
What can happen if we end in the hands of a denialist?
These last years have been seen several examples in the world of denialism at the political level, even some have come to have lost the elections. However, thank God, they have not been very extreme.
It is possible that a reader does not agree with this last point and think that if we have observed extreme denialisms, it is a matter of seeing where we put the red line.
A much more worrying scenario than the current ones, would be that of a leader who is a vaccine denialist. In the case of someone moderate, he could modify the legislation to convert vaccines into optional but, what if it is someone more extremist who completely eliminates them?
The impact between the population could be brutal and worst of all, in a globalized world, it is most likely that problems will spread to other countries.
Faced with denialism science and reason
To avoid all this, the common of mortals must pay attention to two important pillars of our civilization, science and reason. It is true that within science we will probably find ourselves with economic interests that make us doubt some things, it is where reason enters, for this we must form our own opinion, always reading contrasted information.
You don't have to get carried away by populisms, when what they tell you is too nice to be true, do not hesitate, most likely it is not true.
Finally we should be much more care when choosing our political leaders, it is not going to have to sing that mantra of "we have what we deserve", once they are in power, nothing is like they said it was going to be, pure and hard populism.
