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Coronavirus to help

March 16, 2020 Alexander Golts

I am convinced that Pushkin is our poet for all times. Last week, after the historical visit to the chief head of the State Duma, the whole Facebook quoted: "And finally, by his grace, the crown will humbly agree to the crown." Today, only the lazy will not remember: "The queen is formidable, the plague, now he goes to us herself."

Of course, we do not have a feast during the plague, we have a vote during coronavirus. It is clear that there is no council for the pandemic, the authorities are not to blame for it. But, we agree, it was the Kremlin that he tried that this swan was completely black and made the perfect storm, in which both the “events of insurmountable power” and the man -made stupidity and self -interest came together.

So, in addition to coronavirus, we have a drop in oil prices provoked by Russia's exit from the transaction with OPEC. And also, and this is the main thing, we have a fateful vote on amendments to the Constitution, without which Putin could not break the next years. After all, they already explained to us: Putin's subordinates simply cannot work, not being sure that the owner will rule after 2024. We agree, comrade Sechin should be urgently reassured, otherwise, due to his tireless activity, oil will fall to zero. Comrade Rogozin is also nervous, therefore, defective details are regularly found on the Protons. And the trouble is even stupid, but indispensable, especially valuable. Putin himself is unhappy that they have to pay super -election. And then, in conditions of the uncertainty of Rogozin, some NASA will mute, and Sechin, even worse, BP. After all, the damned foreigners simply sleep and see how to lure our effective managers to themselves.

Thus, in the coming weeks in Russia it will be possible to observe a merciless fight of two categorical imperatives. On the one hand, the authorities are doomed to fight the epidemic. The tool here should be recognized, only one thing: the maximum restriction of any contacts between human individuals. The measures of the Moscow authorities have received approval from above and will almost certainly be duplicated on an all -Russian scale. In general, these measures are adequate to situations. Although their logic is mysterious.

Well, why are events with the number of participants, more than five thousand? A thousand people or five hundred, having received a virus at some event, will be able to infect a considerable number of people. However, officials show in this situation a reasonable initiative. Although the organizers of the event, trying to observe the limit, apply for 4.9 thousand participants, the Moscow and St. Petersburg city halls refuse to conduct without talking. True, by a pure coincidence, we are talking about applications for rallies against the “zeroing” of the presidential terms. Meanwhile, an exception is made for politically important events. Well, for example, in the Alabino near Moscow, the training for the parade on May 9 is now in the midst of the time. 11 thousand people who arrived from various parts and formations participate in them. Just an ideal environment for the spread of the virus. By the way, the same training, but smaller sizes are held in the good ten of the largest Russian cities.

Moreover, the authorities turn a blind eye to events, to put it mildly, optional. From the early morning, long lines of those who want to touch the Kazan Cathedral in St. Petersburg are built to touch the relics of John the Baptist specially discharged from Jerusalem to fight the virus. Of course, only an unbeliever liberal can ask if such a mass assembly will become a source of infection. After all, a specially trained person should wipe the glass of an ark with relics with alcohol. They say that regularly.

However, I suspect that as the cherished date approached April 22, the epidemic will decisively decline. Indeed, now, according to the authorities, the level of spread of the disease in Russia is an order of magnitude less than in most European states. I want to believe it, but it is difficult. Especially if you recall how on the eve of the presidential election in the country, mortality began to decrease with a record pace.

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Bureaucrats from medicine have learned remarkably, no, not to treat, but to manipulate numbers. And a few weeks later we will be informed that the virus has come to naught, like a wart. Tough measures helped to ban the opposition rallies. And, therefore, there are exactly no obstacles in order, according to tradition, to expand polling stations in all schools of the country, through which hundreds and thousands of people will pass. And obedient citizens will no doubt fulfill their duty to Putin V.V. It's like touching the relics ...

Photo: 1. 11.03.2020. In the laboratory of the Institute of Medical Microbiology, Hygiene and virology of the University of Dresden to diagnose the Coronavirus Covid-19. Robert Michael/DPA/Picture-alliance
2. 03/16/2020. Russia. Disinfection of the Moscow metro during the outbreak of coronavirus Covid-19. AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin/TASS
3. 03/13/2020. Russia. Saint Petersburg. Believers are applied to the relics of St. John the Baptist in the Kazan Cathedral. The Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church with concern perceives the spread of coronavirus infection in the world and its consequences for millions of people. The Holy Synod considers the consistent and strict observance of sanitary-hygienic preventive measures in parishes and in monasteries, including the wider use of sanitary solutions for disinfecting icons to which believers, the use of disposable cups are important. Peter Kovalev/TASS
4. 03/14/2020. Russia. Moscow. Detention of a protest participant near the FSB building on Lubyanskaya Square. The organizers of the action were Rupression activists. They planned to line up around the FSB building at an extended arm in support of the defendants in the case of the "network", as well as against amendments to the Constitution of the Russian Federation. Valery Sharifulin/TASS
5. 03/15/2020. France. Voting in the municipal elections in Strasbourg during the Coronavirus Coronavirus epidemic. Jean-Francois Badias / AP / TASS