When there are only 7 days left to vote in the second round of the Ecuador elections, among the candidates Guillermo Lasso, from the neoliberal radical right, who has ruled the last 4 years in Ecuador, under the government of Donald Trump, and his puppet in Ecuador, Lenin Moreno, the president who used Rafael Correa's party, Alianza País, and the assembly members of this party, who were the majority in the National Assembly, a total of 75 out of 136, of which 50 betrayed Rafael Correa and to the vice president elect in 2017, Jorge Glas, who until now they have been imprisoned and were part of the traumatic government of Moreno Lenin Moreno, the former vice president of Rafael Correa for 6 years and 4 years plus his delegate to the UN, until day before running for president. Moreno was able to win the elections using the image and achievements of the government of his predecessor, so for 10 years he was a conspirator for hire, who ceded two military bases, to Mike Pompeo, the head of the US State Department, who through the Ambassador Michael Kilpatrick, controlled the army, using General Oswaldo Jarrín as Minister of Defense, a former instructor of Defense Ministers, from the State Department, the police, using María Paula Romo, as Minister of Government, and controlling the agenda de Moreno through Juan Sebastián Roldán, his private secretary, both from the Ruptura 25 party, from the San Francisco de Quito University, the university that preferably welcomes Phd graduates in the USA as professors. In addition, Pompeo managed to get Moreno to hand over Julian Assange, the most famous politically persecuted by the American government, who took refuge in the Embassy of Ecuador, in London
The day after taking office as president, he adopted the government plan of his rival Guillermo Lasso and the IMF in the elections, he immediately met with the bankers, who became the owners of the national economy during these 4 years, winning as Never, so much so, that Lasso won in the Moreno government, with figures that were increasing, despite the deflationary crisis. He already had his enormous profits, after the banking holiday of 1999, when he was Jamil Mahuad's Super Minister of the Economy, with profits of 30 million dollars, according to the Superintendency of Companies of Panama, where he has 49 off-shore companies to launder money, while three million Ecuadorians emigrated due to poverty. Later, in the government of Colonel Lucio Gutierrez, as an itinerant commercial ambassador, the Gutiérrez government, in addition to his travels, paid the promissory notes he bought at the prices of a sick chicken to desperate Ecuadorians, who lost their savings in bankrupt banks.
The governments in which Guillermo Lasso participated and benefited were deposed through popular uprisings, in 2000 and 2005.
In the pandemic he earned more than in previous years, 6 million dollars in 2020, according to the SRI, while Ecuadorians died by thousands and millions lost their way of subsistence, a tragedy that we have lived until now and will be described below.
The particularity of the pandemic in Ecuador is the spectacular arrival in Guayaquil, the one since March 16, 2020, the social distancing that has been going on for a year, the mobility crisis, which caused the economy to collapse, the problem of crowds that was inevitable, because Unemployment. The crisis that had come since 2017, when Moreno took office, was complicated by the economic measures of 2019, which led to a national protest, led by Jaime Vargas and Leonidas Iza, leaders of CONAIE, the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador. It already forced the poorest, impoverished and indebted before the pandemic to go out to the streets to seek their daily sustenance through informal commerce, but with the pandemic this is unstoppable as is the emigration of the country, and to be part of the caravans from Honduras to the USA, like what we saw last week, when two girls, 3 and 5 years old, were thrown by people who helped him overcome the Trump Wall between Mexico and New Mexico.
The pandemic then multiplied the victims in Quito, when the rains and cold weather came, especially affecting people who had previous illnesses, such as cancer treatments, diabetes, hypertension, which became the most common pathologies in the population of Ecuador. , especially in people over 40 years old, due to decades of great changes in human mobilization, each day more motorized, and the great changes in the diet with fast, or prepared, hypercaloric and hyperfat foods and drinks.
To these physical and bodily problems, the problem of the use of physical space was added, since in Guayaquil and the Coast, the growth of slums, product of invasions, which stopped at something during the Correa government, returned, as neighborhoods with wooden and tin houses, without water, canalization, garbage collection, with overcrowding, such as sources of violence, which gather more people in small spaces, during the rains, facilitating the spread.
Meanwhile in Quito, the city was filled for decades with air polluted by gases from cars, factories and stoves or combustion burners, than at 2850 meters above sea level, where there is less concentration of oxygen, added to the Cold and humidity due to frequent rains, in certain months, facilitated respiratory complications. The capital has 40 percent of the country's automotive fleet, cars are more important than people, the largest showcase of vanity and social status in this city. This overabundance of vehicles in turn translates into sedentary lifestyle, physical weakness due to locomotive inactivity, and low cardio-respiratory capacity, which has multiplied susceptibility to the virus.
Quarantine and social distancing were possible because it was a sanitary measure recommended by the World Health Organization and the global media, such as the Internet, satellite television, local media and cell phone communication, which were the mechanisms that allowed education, work at home, even home shopping and sales.
The pandemic unleashed a revolution in social behavior, in communications, in the manufacture of vaccines, as well as the use of tests and examinations to recognize diseases, detect what previous diseases really mean, the construction of houses, occupation and use of home, neighborhood and transportation. But he also reconsidered family life, humane treatment, domestic violence and social violence, which are the new pandemic, along with alcoholism, drugs and insensitivity to pain, poverty, suffering, and even death due to the frequent occurrence of are.
The pandemic made us understand the importance of the president, the social order or what we call politics, because Trump in the United States, came to multiply the victims with his stupidity, to assault the Capitol, to try for the first time in 250 years of history of USA a coup, as he did in Bolivia, Bolsonaro in Brazil leads the country to a health and environmental catastrophe without parallel in the world, Añez in Bolivia, gave a coup, or Moreno in Ecuador, which he distributed in exchange for Political favors hospitals, sponsored corruption in public procurement before and during the pandemic, highlight human stupidity, ignorance of presidents, corruption in governments and the catastrophe that follows their reckless decisions.
The pandemic showed us the crisis of power that has resulted in the electoral defeat of Trump, the possible defeat of Guillermo Lasso, Moreno's candidate and the American Embassy, in the Ecuador elections, with the triumph of Andrés Araúz, the arrest Janine Añez in Bolivia, the increasingly possible dismissal of Jair Bollonado, or the possible triumph of Verónica Mendoza, after the failure of numerous presidents in Peru, who lasted only days in government, amid the worst mortality in memory in that neighboring country.
The pandemic showed us that Western or scientific medicine was not what we believed, that hospitals instead of saving lives could complicate the health of those who came to it, that knowledge about viruses was insufficient, that knowledge about it were almost nil, that technological resources were more important than anything, that climate and altitude were despised as therapeutic resources, despite the fact that it was evident that cold, humidity and altitude were factors of the utmost importance, neglecting the possibility to build field hospitals in places with a dry, warm climate, less polluted air, with less altitude, where viruses have less facilities and patients make less cardio-respiratory effort. In Ecuador, the ideal places were the Chota Guallabamba Valley or La Toma in the Sierra, or Tonsura, Atacames, Same, Tonchigue, Galera, on the Coast, where the Humboldt current does not cool much and where there are only 60 days of rain per year, you breathe ocean air full of oxygen, with much more atmospheric pressure than in Quito or the Sierra, with less cold and humidity than Guayas and Manabí.
Unlike China, which quickly built hospitals only for covid patients, in Ecuador the existing hospitals were adapted, and these became highly dangerous, as cleaning, nursing, laboratory, and medical personnel went from wards with contaminated patients, to those of uncontaminated patients, who being under treatment for previous health problems were complicated. Even the personnel who did the tests on streets, highways or houses became a vector.
The discovery in Italy that the civid killed by disseminated vascular coagulation was necessary to start using anticoagulants, this allowed us to remember that the Spanish flu in 1917 popularized the use of aspirin, which was the medicine that relieved fevers and coincidentally. Without knowing it at the time, it helped prevent vascular coagulation, which is apparently how that coronavirus also killed.
The discovery that COVID killed by an allergic reaction, called a cytokine storm, like the one produced by a bee sting, producing pulmonary edema and glottis collapse, led us to the use of corticosteroids, such as prednisone or hydrocortisone.
The use of whole blood first, and then plasma from cured patients, led to synthetic antibodies through cloning, called monoclonal antibodies.
The use of intensive care units and respirators, first went through the error of using high concentrations of oxygen, such as those used in anesthesia, this burned the lungs, so in Brazil it was discovered that using a lower concentration of oxygen and the pulmonary intubation instead of endotracheal and placing patients on their side or face down achieved better results. But the oxygen supply became a problem.
Then retroviral drugs began to be used, but remdesivir used in Ebola did not have the expected results, it only reduced the treatment time, but it is too expensive, so Russia invented avifir, a very cheap retroviral, which has much more success, but the monopoly of western laboratories despise it, to avoid the Russian invasion of their drug market.
Finally the possibilities of obtaining and using these therapeutic resources became difficult, as did the use of medicinal plants such as tobacco, which freed the indigenous people of the Amazon from the Spanish flu. or a piperácea from the Andes, as well as other plants were despised, since there is no patent right for the use of medicinal plants, and it is not a good business, such as drugs or vaccines.
Vaccines are now the panacea, we are in the middle of a global and national dispute for them, although 160 between companies and countries started in this race, at the moment only 3 vaccines from the USA, Pfizer, with a problem, that it needs -60 degrees Celsius in its cold chain, or Modern, Johnson & Johnson, one from Russia, Sputnik V, from China, Sinovac, and from England, Oxford AstraZeneca, which do not require extreme cold for their conservation, while Cuba, which has a prestige in produce vaccines, he is preparing to produce his own, and even to use it to activate the already popular health tourism to the island and Brazil, which is desperate for mortality and contagion, is also rushing to make its own.
The problem is in the efficacy, the mutations of the virus, which little by little seem to be creating difficulties for vaccines, these mutations have as their initial origin developed countries such as the United States with the variants of New York, or London, but what is feared But, they are the variants of Brazil, South Africa, Peru, and if it is not possible to reach the countries with poor populations such as India, Africa, or Latin America, these countries may be the origin of new strains that have super-resistance, which It means a new pandemic, new quarantines, distancing, a global crisis in everything, like the one we are experiencing. Vaccination has become a speed race against variants, which depends on 70% of humans being vaccinated. that is to say at least 4.5 billion people before the end of the year.
For the Lasso or Arauz candidates, the speed with which they manage to vaccinate 70% of the population is what can mean stability in their government, if this is not possible and they delay compared to what happens in neighboring countries, it will be almost the game death of his mandate, or uncontrollable instability.
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