Severe punishment for those who put all at risk

All of us, Panamanians and foreigners, are the key to defeating the virus together. Solidarity and responsibility begin by avoiding contagion. Every time someone is exposed in a park, queuing to enter the lottery or looking for an excuse to leave home, it is one more door that opens to contagion.

The misbehavior of a few forces the tightening of  sanitary control measures. It seems that there are those who need more serious measures, with severe punishments, to understand that this is a serious problem.

A clumsiness, a whim or an irresponsibility can make us a burden on the health system. We should all serve as an example of what happened in Europe, where countries with a culture similar to ours have to deal with a Dantesque panorama, because their population did not cooperate as it should.

There, like here, there are people who thought that the pandemic was not with them. A gross mistake that is costing us all. Health personnel who risk their lives and those who do not deserve the danger caused by a handful of irresponsible people, who should face punishment for exposing us.- LA PRENSA, Mar.24