Like Thrushes and Obscurantism
Marie Bonaparte-Wyse, by marriage, Ratazzi, visited Portugal in the last quarter of the 19th century and wrote an interesting book entitled Portugal au-vol d’oiseaux, translated by Portugal de Glance. Her work deserves an indignant response from Camilo Castelo Branco and other Portuguese intellectuals. However, anyone who reads it today should not fail to admire the princess for her perspicacity in understanding the Portuguese reality.
After unraveling facts and conclusions, Portugal managed to “convert public ignorance into a State institution”.
It comes with the purpose of the Ministry of Health’s action regarding mortality from mortality in Portugal from the introduction of the baseline of the Portuguese who will try to identify another mortality10 – more selected in the year of their mortality10 thousand Portuguese dead every month.
This database was being worked on by journalist Pedro Almeida Vieira, one of the great journalists of official investigation, with absolutely contrary results.
For example, Pedro Almeida Vieira reports based on public figures that, in 2020 and 2021, a pandemic involved the hospitalization of 57,000 people, but that it was almost used to remove 280,000 patients from hospitals. The officer’s major “burden” happened in the years when inpatients dropped by more than 200,000! What tales tell us.
But, essentially, this journalist sought to understand the causes of the extraordinary death that has been selected this year. His articles are examples of how good journalism is so factual and unfettered and still exists in Portugal.
Faced with an assessment that calls into question the propaganda of the official machine, the Ministry of Health removed the database from the Transparency portal, replacing it with innocuous data. Curiously, shortly afterwards the journalist is seen by the Regulatory Entity for Social Communication (ERC), in an unusual attack.
On the other hand, the Government and the Minister cannot explain this strange rise in mortality in Portugal.
When the country gets mobilized to understand this serious excess of mortality, the Ministry withdraws the database that could serve to unravel the mystery.
This is how ignorance is promoted. Here’s how to hide your head in the sand. Here is the best solution so that deaths continue to occur that could be preventable if known as causes. This is how it is implemented, the fear of the truth, the censorship in infallibility, greater than the questions of faith, of the rulers.
This is how Obscurantism continues, more than a century after Maria Ratazzi, to “convert public ignorance into a State institution”.
It is therefore important for the Government to restore the database and provide explanations for the rise in mortality. So that there is no suspicion that you have guilt to hide.