“Be serious”: Criticism of ‘Pacho’ Santos for the clothes he will wear to ‘prevent’ covid-19

Francisco Santos reappeared on his social networks and did so with a photo wearing medical gear: gown, hat, mask and even surgical shoes; but she was not going for a childbirth or to perform any other medical procedure.

Via his Twitter account, the former vice president wrote that he was already “In Bogotá, ready to go to work and I am vaccinated”, asking his followers if his outfit was too over the top to be in the nation’s capital. The reactions were swift.

The trill has over 600 responses, many of them like a joke; several users even mentioned that it looked like ‘Doctor Chapatin‘for the briefcase he’s carrying. Others replied that “That’s right, for COVID-19 to protect itself from you”. The post, which was released at five in the afternoon on Monday 2, garnered around 1,000 likes in minutes and was cited over 200 times, where posts such as “That idiot is cute” and even several “tweeters” asked whether or not the post was a meme.

They even made memes and montages with his photo showing him in different productions and series such as ‘Grey’s Anatomy’; ‘Nurses‘O’Open heart‘. His name has become one of the top trends on this platform due to the memes and other comments generated.

Francisco Santos’ response

After seeing the large number of comments on his trill, the former ambassador and journalist quoted his own post responding to those who have made memes with his image. “I like the reactions of the social-bacanería which with their ‘trolls’ shows a lack of humor that says it all”he apologized. While there have been supporting responses, there have been users who have continued to criticize.

It should be mentioned that Santos recently left the US Embassy to make way for Juan Carlos Pinzón in this diplomatic post, also confessing that he returned to Colombia tired of political activity and in search of new ones. horizons.

“I had great frustration that I didn’t do more, but the peace of mind of having worked against drug trafficking”He mentioned to Radio Uniminuto, also revealing to this university station that he wanted to practice journalism again.

“I want to go back to journalism, but I have to relearn journalism (…) it has become an ideological shootout (…) I’m going to take a crash course because I haven’t done journalism since 2002 when I resigned from the Country, from Spain ”, Express. He also took the opportunity to wish his successor every success.

“I hope Ambassador Juan Carlos Pinzón understands that the missing road is great, I can only wish him the best of success in his work, the role of an ambassador is to have good relations with Republicans and the democrats “.

Finally, a few days ago, he spoke for Semana about the political aspirations of several personalities who are in the presidential role, facing the elections of 2022. He spoke about Germán Vargas Lleras, mentioning that, “It’s settled that it’s going to be launched.” During this time he warned “An economic debacle and a risk for the democratic system” in case Gustavo Petro manages to win the election.

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