Plug the blackout with the sieve

After the blackout, with technical contours that were clarified, have already been made all the diagnoses on the impact on the country and evaluations for all tastes on the quality of the reaction of our rulers. Regarding the governed, because we are to the spout of elections, a unanimity acryticness prevailed: it was concluded that the citizens were brave and exemplary.
It is this, in reality, that leads me to write this chronicle. Because this is a false diagnosis, totally denied by the facts. What happened, once again, was the unbridled race to supermarkets, generating a phenomenon of sagging that, here and there, reached the pile. A subject that, of course, the distribution sector did not even want to disclose, will not become fashion.
The images of dizzy running and her are water -laden supermarket carts (which rarely lacked the taps), beer (which apparently would be consumed at room temperature) and toilet paper (because fear seems to go back to the belly to many people) are an example of a striking lack of civility. There is no other way to describe it. The reactions of all these people should lead to deep reflection on the part of the authorities, even serving as a preventive strategy to deal with similar problems in case of a serious catastrophe. What would happen if the blackout lasted more than 24 hours? What will happen if there is an earthquake? Is it saved who can? Will we have uncontrolled loots?
It also bothers me the criticism of the crisis communication and the complaints of some mayors. It is up to each entity, namely to the municipalities, to have an integrated plan and an agile support structure for crises of this nature.
As for the comments to Pedro Nuno Santos’s governing reaction, who again undressed the lamb skin, I wonder whether the executive should have communicated with citizens by signs of smoke, or if it would have been better to come to the radios to say that when the blackout would end, instead of trying to find solutions and answers to it. Just remember that the call between Montenegro and Sánchez was interrupted because the latter was out of network…
And of course, the experts who had nothing foreseen appeared to say that the blackout could have happened before ‘. We have heard not only lapalissadas of this caliber as ideological comments that all attribute to the privatization of the energy sector, ignoring that the Spanish network, where the problem arose, belongs to the state. Far is the time when the opposition leader, Rui Rio, tolerated with patience and solidarity the tragic communication of the beginning of the pandemic.
They have already forgotten, but I will remember: in January 2020, when the signs no longer deceived, Graça Freitas considered « an excessive little » the possibility of contagion between humans, saying there is no « great probability » of the virus to arrive in Portugal. Two months later, with hundreds of infected, the incumbent in the direction of DGS proposed, flanked by Marta feared or Lacerda Sales, contradictory measures every day.
This blackout had no dramatic impacts and critical services responded reasonably. Resistant to inquiries and investigations, Siresp failed, as always fails, for lack of current. The system is what it is and has no cure.
The Portuguese are also what they are. Until next time, we will tell us that we are fantastic. Let us at least have the common sense to suspect, keeping in our homes survival reserves.