Twenty-five years ago, a woman stood in the hole an airliner had punched through the North Tower and waved for a hundred minutes.
She is in dozens of photographs and several video clips. People have been arguing about her for a quarter century. Her name, almost certainly, was Edna Cintrón.
She was 46. She worked as an assistant billing administrator at Marsh & McLennan, on the 97th floor.
Flight 11 hit that building at 8:46 and tore open floors 93 through 99. It went through her company. Marsh lost 295 employees and 63 consultants that morning, more than any other firm in the North Tower.
Minutes after the impact, people on the street and photographers on rooftops started noticing movement in the gash itself. A woman had made it to the torn edge of the floor slab, where the aluminum had peeled the wall open and there was outside air. She was leaning against a piece of the ruined exterior column, and she was waving her right arm.
She kept doing it.
Here is the part that is hard to sit with. Nobody was coming. All three stairwells in the North Tower were severed at impact. The roof doors were locked and the smoke made a helicopter landing impossible. Not one person at or above the 92nd floor of that building survived, 1,355 people in total, and that was already true at 8:46, before she ever reached the opening.
She had no way of knowing that. So she stood there in the wind, 1,300 feet up, and signaled for help to a city that could see her perfectly and could not reach her.
Witnesses and footage put her still there, still waving, until roughly ten seconds before the tower came down at 10:28.
She was never formally identified. Her remains were never recovered, and the identification rests on video and photographic analysis and on the people who knew her recognizing her. Her husband William believed it was her. They had been through a lot together, including a period without a home, and she had carried him through his drinking.
So the honest way to say it is this. We are nearly certain who she was, and we are completely certain what she did, which was refuse to stop asking for help for a hundred minutes on the worst morning in American history.
Her name was Edna Cintrón.
@el_pais Sería fenomenal construir redes sociales que sostengan y sean fuertes. Tejer la red de amigos, familiares, compañeros, implica ESTAR; y por lo tanto, sacrificar un tiempo. No se le puede pedir a la red que nos sostenga cuando nosotros no damos puntada con hilo. 👏🏻
@el_pais Que se saque a colación la PRESENCIALIDAD como acto de amor en un momento en el que prima el individualismo -sé tu mejor versión, gana mucho dinero, sé exitoso- indica que ya no estamos muy presentes y que la red, el tejido social, se está perdiendo. 1/2
COLUMNA | "Seas anciano o niño, en ese acto tan cotidiano de que alguien te espere anida la excepcionalidad del amor". Por Laura Ferrero https://t.co/PGFUI9dR5u
@despropositando@LuisMiguelReal4 Repito que el éxito comercial no prueba su valor científico. La comida como las hamburguesas de Burger King es una de las cosas más consumidas y eso no significa que sean buenas. Es de hecho una falacia post hoc. El éxito comercial no conduce a que un hecho sea verdadero.
@_NattPerez Al menos las nuevas generaciones de psiquiatras entendemos el trabajo conjunto y nos formamos en psicoterapia. Tengo la suerte de trabajar mano a mano con psicólogas para dar la mejor asistencia posible. El paradigma va cambiando poco a poco.
@despropositando@LuisMiguelReal4 Valorar a alguien a nivel científico por su difusión editorial comercial no me parece muy correcto. La calidad científica viene ligada a estudios, a investigaciones y no a entrevistas en el hormiguero o libros de autoayuda.
@mariathathiana@LuisMiguelReal4 No es verdad. Las teorías del cortisol y la dopamina no están probadas como tal. Vemos aumento de cortisol en trastornos ansiosos y depresivos (en algunos) pero eso no significa causalidad. Hablar de exceso de algo y culpar de esa subida a la enfermedad es simplista e incorrecto.
La enorme importancia de combinar psicoterapia con farmacología, la importancia de todos los profesionales del sistema de salud mental (médicxs, psicólogxs, enfermerxs, trabajadorxs sociales, TCAEs, integradorxs, terapeutas, administrativxs…)…
Scientists estimate that the COVID vaccine saved 3 million lives and prevented 18 million hospitalizations.
President Trump called it "one of the greatest miracles of the ages."
RFK Jr. asked the FDA to revoke the emergency use of vaccines.
Por último, para los que queráis descubrir todos los entresijos os propongo estos dos libros que pese a ser caros -espero algún día poder conseguirlos- explicitan de manera muy clara esas “Memorias” nunca publicadas del escritor.
Aquí tenéis al increíble gondolero veneciano que cautivó al protagonista de la biografía y que le acompañó hasta el día de su muerte en Roma. -anotación, no estaba con la mujer-