No contact with the "satellite"

Mikhail Zelensky - about the expectation of a New Year's miracle from Russian propaganda

The 41-year-old flight attendant Monica Errero cannot restrain her tears , she just helped bring the most important cargo to Argentina-300 thousand doses of the Russian satellite-V Russian vaccine. For a Latin American country, which is included in the twenty in mortality from coronavirus, this was the most important step towards overcoming the epidemic. The fare with a valuable cargo was shown live on television channels. It is expected that the first vaccinations Argentine health workers will be made on December 29.

It would seem that great news is a world recognition of the Russian vaccine! In addition, we have been vaccinated against coronavirus massively set almost a month ago, and therefore, it is not a sin to share with overseas friends. But if you look more closely at how vaccination is organized in Russia , I want to join Signor Errero and burst into tears. In St. Petersburg, where free beds in hospitals almost ended , according to the latest data, they brought less than 10 thousand doses of the vaccine. And this is still a good result - usually the regions report about a thousand doses . Most news on this subject are formulated in the future of time: the regions are waiting for them to be delivered by large parties.

At the same time, officials continue to pour some common numbers, of which it is completely incomprehensible whether mass vaccination is in the country or not. For example, as of Monday, December 21, 330 thousand doses were “shipped” into the regions. And two days later, the Gamalei Institute said that 650-770 thousand doses were “released” into circulation. Is it only for Russia? Or are we just sent half of all these doses by plane to Argentina?

Reports on how many people received at least one injection are scared even more. After two weeks of vaccination, there are only 52 thousand . That is, every day we are infected with a coronavirus of almost 30 thousand people, and only three to four thousand are vaccinated. In the United States, the first vaccinations were made on December 14 - ten days later than in Moscow. But there is already a million vaccine Pfizer. In the UK - half a million .

After all, we well remember what Alexander Ginzburg, director of the Gamalei Institute, was talking about this vaccine: “At first glance, offhand, there [the Pfizer vaccine] will be very big problems with logistics. The same vaccine is stored at minus 75-80 degrees. ” Well, yes, they had one and a half million in two weeks, and we have 52 thousand. If somewhere there are “very big problems with logistics”, but definitely not “there”.

These problems are perfectly seen by local officials. The other day, the vice-mayor of Moscow Anastasia Rakova complained : “As soon as this vaccine is enough for its large-scale implementation-in order to vaccinate more than half of the population of Muscovites-of course, we will begin a great explanatory work in this direction.” Indeed, what is the point of massive Muscovites to the vaccination points, if the vaccines are simply not in sufficient quantities. Rakova, along with other regions, awaits that normal supplies will begin in the new year.

But if officials think that as soon as there is enough dose, people will go to the clinics to make injections, they are bitterly mistaken. 52% of Russians said in December the state VTCIM that they would not be vaccinated - the same amount they abandoned the vaccination in August. There are nothing surprising in these figures, because Russians have long been skeptical to any vaccines. The main reason for refusal to vaccinate: the new vaccine has been poorly studied, invented too quickly, did not go through all the tests.

What do scientists and developers of the vaccine answer these doubts? They change the rules of the “satellite” on the move! Instead of bringing it to the end, as it should, the Hamalei Institute received permission from the Ministry of Health no longer to work hard to the placebo volunteers - that is, a dummy, so that there is something to compare the effect of the vaccine. “Everything is proved there, and the pandemic is going on, and the placebo is not at all good,” Academician Ginzburg dumbfounded us just on the day when more than half of the Russians through the survey say that no one had proved anything to them yet.

The first -person position does not help. From the first days, President Vladimir Putin used the Russian vaccine to show himself the winner of the coronavirus: we registered it before all, the “satellite” is the most effective, we began the vaccination campaign quickly. But every time they ask: "And when is Putin himself pushed?" - In response, there are excuses that do not withstand any criticism. First, the Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that the president cannot be instilled "as a volunteer." When mass vaccination nevertheless began, they came up with another explanation: the “satellite” has not yet been checked in people over 60. And why then was the 62-year-old mayor of Moscow Sergey Sobyanin or 65-year-old Minister of Defense Sergey Shoigu ?

In the conditions of such a desperate opposition to the Kremlin and the paradoxical actions of scientists, it remains only to rely on state propaganda. Well, if they were able to convince the Russians as soon as possible that the Ukrainian brothers are the main enemies, then they will somehow cope with the vaccine. The development of the “Temnik” has already begun according to the “contrary” method: they say that even liberal journalists who scolded the vaccine (in fact not), now “dangled“ satellite ”.” The thesis, of course, is idiotic, but if it gives us a New Year's miracle, that is, it will create lines in clinics, then I am with both hands for.

The author’s opinion may not coincide with the position of the editors.