Op-Ed: Itxu Díaz: Fauci’s False Notion of Total Security

Perhaps if you quarantine yourself in the germ-free sterile environment of a plastic bubble while living in a secluded bunker, you could get very close to what Dr. Fauci and his clones around the world desire for you. That is, you can get closer to total security. But then you would die of boredom.

The world is full of things that prick, cut or bruise — of things that poison, bite or infect. The world is a hostile place, and no one can protect you against all of that, not even the fatherlike Joe Biden.

After a year of the pandemic, everyone’s true colors have been revealed: The left is comfortable with trying to get the government to guarantee total security — a mythical concept, by the way — while the right feels better if the government interferes as little as possible.

The left is sure that a paternal government must protect citizens from everything. The right wing is convinced that there is nothing more dangerous than trusting the government.

In his latest remarks, Fauci has tried to shake off the critics with a smack, ensuring us that the government’s decisions are ordered by science. Well, who is science to give orders? What is science? At what point has science said to stop the Johnson & Johnson vaccine? Are you sure it said that? What kind of science said it? Mathematics? The natural sciences? Criminology? Politics?

First of all, it should be clarified that science does not speak. I don’t know about you, but I have never seen a test tube walk around the laboratory, with its hands behind its back, saying, “Dear friends, we are in a historic moment and, as a test tube, I could not be more excited by addressing you in this beautiful auditorium on such a special day.”

Science offers material for others to ponder, decide and speak. But science cannot command anything, unless you consider the penicillin formula or a fruit’s oxidation process an imperative command.