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Comment signed by historian Marius Oprea for mediafax.ro
“We are 22 million people, in the subconscious of a madman”, explains in a discussion the situation of the Romanians in 89, the poet Mircea Ivănescu. A definition of our humanity reduced then, in the years of the Ceausescu dictatorship, to zero and which should have been a school, but which, like so many other thoughts of Romanian intellectuals, marginalized by an ungrateful history, was buried in it. In the days of Christmas more than three decades ago, all the discussions turned towards our future destiny, closely linked to a dictatorship that had enslaved and dissolved our destinies into one: that of Ceausescu. Now our subconscious fears of an uncertain future center on one product, as do all the discussions about the future this year at our holiday tables: the vaccine.
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I have heard about the vaccine every month and in the stars. Starting with the hallucinatory psychosis, related to the injection, together with the vaccine, of a “chip”, which reminds me of that lady, who also reached the press at the end of the 90s, who accuses that the “services” put such processor ”to change your thoughts. These “anti-vaccine” fears are more common today than usual. They manifest and spread especially through environments that are not necessarily less educated, or excessively dogmatic and averse to the new, but traditionalist and wary of excessively globalizing propaganda. Those touched by them see in such a universal process the possibility of controlling the individual, or a descent to the stage of “guinea pigs” of indefinite power and with mysterious ultimate purposes.
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Beyond the previous collective fears, others, much more applied, are related to the side effects of the vaccine. Officially, they are insufficiently explained, because they did not even have time to be investigated and known, down to the smallest detail. And from here on, “conspiracy theories” begin and abound, accusing “secrecy” of such effects, so as not to hinder the global vaccination process. The most disturbing arguments against vaccination can be found in this area. This fear is evident: the world understands, somehow subconsciously, what doctors know, that is, that the Covid-19 virus mainly affects the nervous system: not in vain, the first symptoms are in the senses, loss of smell and taste, the end of our neural endings. How do we know that, in the future, such a vaccine, still incompletely known, will not affect our memory, sight, hearing, thoughts? Well, we don’t know, Ion Cristoiu’s word, which is why I heard announcing that he has no intention of getting vaccinated too soon.
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The official European pro-vaccination chorus has been replaced by accentuated polyphony. How many Romanians, so many opinions. Vaccination fears were stoked in Romania by the attitude of President Iohannis, who had suddenly become cautious about the vaccine: he announced that he would be vaccinated, but when “it was his turn. Although he was the first to announce preventive measures and taught us to saturate our hands and wear a mask, although he was at the forefront of the electoral campaign and “his government”, he is now taking a step backwards. It is not the first. It is no longer an example. In a patriarchal society like ours, where the world is looking to the “daddy” of the nation, this attitude of Klaus Iohannis is a serious miscommunication, which fuels all phobias related to vaccination. It’s natural, maybe the president will finally have his precautions But he shouldn’t have phrased them so abruptly, because in a way what he’s showing us now, all of a sudden, having always been first, is that he’s scared. At least that’s how many interpreted it. If he had wanted the Romanians to break into the vaccination centers, he would have had to be there first. Finally, she looks at him. But he has thus lost the power of example and can no longer ask us to do what he avoids doing.
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When asked in a Christmas talk about the vaccine, I clearly said that I would get vaccinated. If he had wanted to call me to get vaccinated first, I would have done it too. Not out of boundless confidence in his miraculous abilities, not out of a mythical sense of obedience to relentless destiny, but out of confidence in Pronie, that if this cure was found, it must be to put a purpose in the world – and that would be to heal us, not only from Covid-19, but also from all these fears of ours, stemming from a turbulent past and accentuated by an uncertain future.
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All in all, the vaccine is the future, and the future is always unknown, like the ways of the Lord, and Covid-19 reminded us, more than ever. And suddenly he made us all the same. Facing tomorrow, like the vaccine, we are all together, like before death and God, “and the king and the soldier.” The important thing, beyond fear and prejudice, is that, for now, there is an alternative. And this is our choice. Otherwise, as for what it will be, as Bacovia said in a verse of his that I like very much, “for now it is sublime.”
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