Save yourself who can! Anton walnut about panic due to coronavirus

You know less - you sleep stronger. And in general, ignorance is a great power. Coronavirus rages thousands of kilometers from us, and we discuss it as if going out of the threshold - and there, mutants and zombies, infected with an unknown infection, from which there is no salvation, are already waiting for you.

In Ulyanovsk, a passenger in a mask is thrown out of the minibus - you never know! In fact - where it is not in Ulyanovsk to hit the first thing to the Ugansky virus! Taxi drivers in the capital's cities welcome Chinese tourists to double tariffs. You will writhe in torment - so at least you will have time to earn money, at the same time enough for pills.

Arbidol enters the arena again. A strange tablet, which is talked about differently. Like, an administrative resource helped her, and so - just a piece of chalk. But there will be no worse from the chalk? So Arbidol went into business.

In some Moscow schools, children were sent to quarantine. What could be better for students! Especially if the well -being is good, nothing bothers - but you do not need to study. Vigilant citizens who see a catch in everything, even in an abnormally warm winter, suspect that our authorities are not saying something. However, if the authorities know more than us, but prevents the children preventively, well done officials, take care of us!

The Chinese was less fortunate, who got in Chita. He learned about his ailment from the federal media - like you and me. Again, the power of the through information society. Years ago, who would know what is going on in this cheat? Chita herself - and there she would eat rumors. But then the Chinese comrade was not lucky. Which was also taken to the hospital on the second attempt. And the hospital himself made such a tremendous impression on him that, despite the disease, he shared with the rest of the world these beautiful personnel. It seems that in such a hospital it is easier to get something else than to recover. Probably the dashing 90s are to blame-there is no one else!

Meanwhile, the eyes of fear are so great that there was talk about the threat of holding the Olympics in the summer. Moreover, the games will not be held in China, but in Japan! And according to common sense, if after six months the epidemic reaches such a scale that even in a highly developed, island Japan, this “cholera” will rage, then all of us, in principle, will not be up to sports. The basement, stocks of cereals, matches, kerosene, berdanka, box of cartridges - this will be much more relevant.

Humanity loves to be afraid. Cash fees are beating films about terrible diseases that escaped from laboratories and went for a walk around the world, pumping millions and millions. Therefore, every similar story in reality immediately activates movie pictures in the brain.

In 2002, everyone in a panic was afraid of atypical pneumonia (SARS). 800 people died in the end. Then, almost a year later, a bird flu caught up with fear - 455 deaths. But when he only entered into force, they also seriously talked about the transfer of the Olympics in Beijing, to which at that moment remained ... five years. Five years later, no one remembered about bird flu, and to refresh the details, it was necessary to climb into Wikipedia.

Eight years have come in the turn Mers. This is not a German car, but the Middle Eastern respiratory syndrome. Another 850 victims. Six years ago, Ebola's fever came. 11 thousand dead! It was already cool. But the infection was raging in poor Africa, where people generally die more often and for death there are much more reasons.

Now China again threw up an occasion for experiences. And although virologists assure that the mortality of the Utan pneumonia is significantly lower than the diseases listed above, no one wants to get into the mournful list, even if it is short and even if you know that while you read these lines, there are much more people in the roads on the roads than from any virus.

In this sense, it is curious to observe the Chinese experience in the fight against the epidemic. China is not Africa. The level of development of the state, the standard of living of citizens and the value of their lives are higher. But the people - one and a half billion. Juan is comparable in the population with Moscow, and according to Chinese concepts somewhere at the end of the first dozens of megacities. When the infection is terrible, and in the risk zone millions, Chinese authorities are taken by police measures. Simply isolate Juan and neighboring cities. And in quarantine there are approximately 60 million people - although, perhaps, now more, since the numbers are constantly changing.

How effective this method is - debatable. But the Chinese regime acts as it is convenient for him and the way he used to. He does not like Uyghurs - 10 million people are placed in concentration camps. I do not like the corrugation of the West - a sovereign Internet is hidden behind the firewall, and world social networks are subjected to severe censorship. Everything for the good of a person - you yourself will be better!

In Russia, many with sympathy and even enthusiasm monitor the effectiveness of this method of solving any problems. If I were paranoid, I would seriously consider the option with a sudden epidemic of mysterious illness, as a way to redraw our political map. Health is more expensive! For the sake of saving our lives, you can sacrifice all kinds of freedoms - the dead people will not come in handy.