That's right: "They were not traveling in a submarine, they will die in the most absolute indifference and there will be no media operations or multimillion-dollar rescue devices for them." The journalist Domingo Marchena has expressed himself in this way on the net. He attaches one of his works, where he notes that some 65,000 migrants have died or disappeared since 1990 while trying to reach Europe. We have read it, we have been stunned. It passed us in two minutes. Barça and Madrid played the Basketball League.
He does not despise the five millionaires trapped in the submersible who paid $250,000 to satisfy their tourist curiosity – almost suicidal due to the security problems raised – to see the Titanic at the bottom of the sea. He respects them. It does denounce the different scales that we have as a privileged society to deal with cases according to the protagonists.
These 65,000 are reached with recent events. In Kalamata, in Greek waters, hundreds of people drowned. Only 104 were rescued. There were inexplicable things. The crowded ship had been followed from the air for hours and no action was taken in time.
Between the tragedy of the submersible and that of those fleeing misery there are only four days. The comparative fact comes quickly and is inevitable. We have been up to one hundred percent of the history of the device, we have seen it, we have read it, we know everything and if they played basketball on TV we have followed it in parallel from the mobile. We are multiscreen...
The question is whether without this possibility that is seen to save the five of them from the submersible alive before the oxygen runs out, the case would have been as reported in the media and if so many resources had been allocated to rescue them. Or if their status as rich would have been enough, no longer to do direct shows, but to expand in the media.
But at their socioeconomic level, there have been those who have found the excuse to do humor. "There is no need to worry about the millionaires in the submarine, deep down they are fine," says @soyneonormal. Other tweeters get hooked: “I'm drowning with laughter”, “Don't go too far, they must be sunk”. Also @TheOnion: "Coast Guard sends another submersible full of billionaires after first."
They are still human lives, but where they have found the excuse to laugh at one fact and not another is that there is eccentricity in one; in the other, despair. They have made them pay, also in this sense, for having gone to see the Titanic.
