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Recent times have uncovered the exercise of opinion, especially on social media. And there’s everything, like in apothecary. For example, when a Cuban issue is addressed, especially when critical points are made, some react with the old and useless dogma that the critic is an enemy, a mercenary. Some come to the terrible proposal that “should go away”, as if the simple geographical terrain where we live, is a kind of club exclusive to a card, a party or a political trend. Nothing makes us more human than the diversity of expressions, tastes, ideas and views. But respect for the other, the ability to hear and learn from the opinion of others, even those we do not share, makes us wiser.

Upon the arrival of the Covid-19 in Cuba and the obligatory social isolation, Orlando Fernández Guerra, permanent deacon of the Archdiocese of Havana, found on social media the ideal space to continue sharing Scripture. It was then that he decided to create on WhatsApp the group “Friends of the Bible”, a space that brings together many Lay Catholics, evangelical faithful and pastors from different congregations, including agnostics interested in a spiritual message and Hope for these times.

Havana returned to the indigenous transmission phase and many wonder what will happen from now on? By dawn on Monday, on central Monte Street and other Habaneras arteries nothing had changed. While it is true that the capitals were pushed and stumbled upon, it is also wise to rectify, we are now at that point.

Cuban narrator Lázaro Zamora gets up every day thinking about when he will start giving up the pandemic, whether he will ever disappear. So far he has not been able to find answers; neither do scientists. Still, he says, “I want to be optimistic, to think that finally this nightmare will pass and life will be back to the way it was.”

It is not easy to fight that of journalism in the face of the rise or bombardment of information that only appeals to emotions and not to the enumeration of evidence, arguments or concrete facts on the subject they refer to. Today, when anyone communicates anything, there are many journalists who continue to bet on being more serious, more rigorous, more accurate… to prevent such a vapulous profession from going through the swallow.

The poet, narrator and Camagueyan essayist, Carlos Esquivel, although he claims that not all stories have a terrible ending, this one, which does not end yet, has shallow stretches. In the midst of this pandemic, he says, “We are actors, of which no one recognizes.”