An unusual 'anti-vaccine' event took place this week in the Chamber of Deputies in Buenos Aires, where a biotechnologist had a man take off his shirt to show a supposed 'magnetization' effect from the vaccine. This sparked the furious condemnation of the doctor and influencer Sol Despeinada, who recounted her personal trauma from the intensive care unit during the pandemic. According to Noticias Argentinas news agency, whose testimonial went viral, the UBA doctor and influencer directed her rage at politicians who 'laugh in the face' of the public. Sol Despeinada, who still has physical and psychological sequelae, sent a direct message to the politicians who minimize the crisis: 'If you lived through the real pandemic, you have to get angry with what these disgraceful people are doing.' The reason for her indignation was a show promoted by the PRO deputy Marilú Quiroz. The doctor responded to the episode with a raw account of her own experience: she was intubated and was unconscious for 13 days at the Fernández Hospital. '50% of the people who entered the ICU didn't make it... You're not the same person after saying goodbye to life.' Her testimony was a harsh blow to denialism: 'I saw people hospitalized in the hallways.' The doctor stated that her fury is directed at those who govern 'based on magical thinking' and repeat 'nonsense' read in WhatsApp chains, with the sole purpose of causing confusion, concluding with a 'Zero tolerance' for political lies.
