Deripaska compared the consequences of the pandemic for the Russian authorities with the collapse of the USSR

A billionaire Oleg Deripaska in his telegram channel warned that Russia was not ready for pandemia.

What's happened?

“If this epidemic is uncontrolled, this will lead to the consequences for the authorities more serious than the collapse of the country in 1991,” Deripaska wrote.

The billionaire offers "not yet late to" introduce "full quarantine in Russia -" this is not a panic, not a manifestation of the helplessness of society, but the only right decision. "

Now the country, in his opinion, is obviously "not ready for the epidemic." People “massively ignore the most basic precautions”, in the subway and shopping centers no one wears masks and people “simply do not understand what the exponential growth of the infected number that we observe with such a disease is.”

Deripaska plan sounds like this:

• "Close all the boundaries tomorrow, cancel all mass events and provide people with the opportunity to spend 60 days at home"
• "The obligation of each head of the enterprise or state institution in its place is to realize the seriousness of the situation, immediately create the headquarters and prepare all the necessary measures that will ensure quarantine within two days"
• "60 days is the minimum period to identify and ensure the start of treatment for most cases, which means for quarantine efficiency"

Deripaska recalls that in 2015, along with other Rusala employees, he ran into Ebola in Africa:

“Only the isolation of Guinea, as well as the coordinated actions of the military, police and Russian doctors allowed it to stop it,” he writes. “Without a complete closure of the boundaries, it is impossible to stop the increase in the number of infected and the spread of the virus in Russia tomorrow”

What is important to know

A billionaire plan does not sound Alarmist. This week will be remembered as the week of the victorious procession of coronavirus around the world, and most of all, airlines, which will soon have nowhere to fly. By Friday, Russia limited the air offense with all EU countries Aeroflot flights to their capital. USA - closed the country for all Europeans and people who have visited Europe in the last 14 days. The main focus of the epidemic is officially recognized by Europe. The number of infected in Italy (17,660), Spain (4334), Germany (3675) and France (3661) continues to grow by exhibit. But they are rapidly catching up with the United States (2045), which are only preparing for a real outbreak of the epidemic.

On Friday evening, Donald Trump announced the country in a national emergency. This will allow the authorities to spend on the fight against the virus reserves of $ 50 billion. The most negative scenarios built by the US Disease Control Center (CDC) admit that from 150 to 214 million Americans (two -thirds of the country's population), from 200 thousand to 1.7 million, this scenario does not take into account the virus against the spread of an epidemic of measures.

Russia has yet officially looks like a quiet harbor - we have only 45 sick people, 11 of them have been identified over the past day, and one of them is the first person who was infected by coronavirus not on a journey, but already in Russia. But few people believe in the reality of such low numbers. Coronavirus can be disguised as other diagnoses - for example, the number of pneumonia sick in Moscow already in January 2020 increased by 37% of the last year (epidemiologists, however, argue that the difference between 5058 and 6921 people who have been overgrown with pneumonia of the lungs, on the scale of Moscow does not say anything). The most discussed topic in social networks is the lack of mass or at least just affordable testing, even for those people who have visited potentially dangerous countries, and on this basis - the distrust of the adequacy of the official assessment of the situation by the authorities.