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A couple of recent events set off alarms about the invasion of idiocy swarming in the nets. In recent days, news of the occurrence of attacks and offenses to the Facebook profile of Cuban actor Roberto Espinosa Sebazco circulated on some digital platforms, who in the Cuban novel on duty plays a loathsome rapist and paedophile. Another event, which also calls us to analysis is the violent capital regrowth of Covid-19. Social indiscipline, ignoring health and government orientations, is another way of exercising idiocy.

To find old friends in a crisis situation, he revealed to this woman, Cuban, architect and visual artist, who was supposed to retain this moment in a work. It was important for her to hear her voices, her laughter, her ideas, her illusions, jokes, and her sacrifices, “beyond sharing them or not, beyond differences, beyond all that exists.” From this experience born in pandemic time, he conceived the project “To all who know how to love”, a video that brings together dear friends. As a base and common thread, he took the martyred discourse “With all and for the good of all”.

For this active Catholic communicator, wife and mother of two children, it was a divine gift that invited her to be part of the team of realization of “A God who goes out to meet”, program of the diocese of Pinar del Río that during the pandemic was broadcast every Sunday, at ten in the morning, by Radio Guamá and Radio Artemis. Today he assures us: “It was a wonderful experience! It was a major challenge; I had never worked in that environment, but in it we found real professionals who became great teachers and friends for us.”

For a few years now, he has been rolling down a sentence for cyberspace that Umberto Eco stated in an interview and returned to on some occasion or another. The text crudely stated that social media had managed to give the idiots a voice and that we were suffering from the invasion of a legion of. In fact, in the face of many current events, the writer’s words need to be reviewed.

For weeks, Dr. Benito Abeledo Fernández, who works in the mental health department of San Miguel del Padrón, in La Hababa, has waited in vain for the barrage of patients with psychiatric alterations according to the exceptional state of things that the world lives and in particular the country. But the alud didn’t just arrive. Are we survivors? How long will the survival catch up with us? As a doctor, he says, he has no scientific explanation for it.

For those who serve the Church since communication, this stage of confinement has not allowed her to stop. María C. López Campistrous (our Chuchu) knows it well. In this time, in addition to the concerns accumulated by the children and relatives far from it, he achieved the complete digitization of the 216 editions of the diocesan newsletter of Santiago de Cuba “Church in March”, which in the midst of the pandemic and isolation reached its thirty years of uninterrupted circulation. It was many hours of work, but of great joy, because this publication has been linked to his life and service these thirty years.