My friend María (trend expert) explains to me that the extreme thinness of the 90s has returned. “Look, this is pure and simple corruption,” I add. You only need to look at each other to know that the two questions have little pendulum: neither one thing nor the other. … the others never left. The confrontation between health and aesthetics is the same as between ideology and management. Between the two, there is always the one who does business. The only difference is that for both there are now new media. More technology and better connections.
“You are never thin enough or rich enough,” they often say. I thought it was a line from “Sex and the City”, but apparently it was a Duchess of Windsor who condemned it. It doesn’t matter who gave birth to him. The quote is a reality in itself: people do everything they can to be thin and rich. Even choosing shortcuts and tricks. For the first, science has found the magic formula. Lose weight effortlessly, without the willpower of not eating and not exercising. For the second, it is felt. To become rich, it’s not that there isn’t a short path. There isn’t even a safe path.
There are people who face Christmas thinking about how many kilos they are going to gain and how they are going to lose them afterwards. Now we know this in politics too. And all year round. Or the entire legislature. After the holidays, those who are losing weight will use Ozempic recipes. Those in the enrichment… have been doing it for years with public companies and high-level contacts.
If the CEI asked Spaniards whether they prefer to be thin or rich, it would put them in a bind. You know like I do that people are obsessed with being thin. Consequence of social networks, they tell us. Perhaps this is why the World Health Organization (WHO) has declared drugs like Ozempic essential for humanity. I don’t know if this drug and its cousins have any side effects or if Fierabrás balm has actually been shown to be effective in keeping everyone slim. But the message from the WHO is something like this: from now on, anyone who is fat does it because they want to.
And we don’t know anyone who wants to get big. Gyms, clinics, nutritionists… Yes, we can confirm it and we confirm that people on the streets – and on the networks – are very concerned about their extra pounds. More, even than the extra pounds of others. Look at Pedro Sánchez. The president of the government himself – Delgado – makes it clear that the legal issues regarding the millions and money under investigation are beyond his control. As long as there is no illegal financing here, he does not see the problem. Sometimes it looks like the WHO with Ozempic. We are at a press conference of the president declaring that corruption, including its side effects, is the best way out of poverty. And big, I mean stupid, the last one.
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