"It is unfortunate that Madame Chancellor can not help you with anything." Chronicles of hospitalism

Last week, Russia remained in the “red” incidence zone, even judging the situation based on data from the government operational headquarters. According to the calculations that the World Health Organization has unveiled on Tuesday, the country took fourth place in the number of cases of infection Covid-19 (at the University of Jones Hopkins, it believes that the Russian Federation still closes the first five). Since the beginning of the pandemic in the Russian Federation, a little less than 6 million cases have been officially recorded, to which about 25 thousand cases of infection are added daily. About a quarter of them are in Moscow. According to the statistics of the office, every day in the capital for the second month in a row, more than a hundred infected are dying.

Meanwhile, the Moscow City Hall regarded the dynamics as encouraging. And on this occasion, she announced the abolition of QR codes provided to the townspeople who has been vaccinated to visit restaurants and cafes-and having done this no less than three weeks ago introduced the corresponding restrictions. In the Kremlin, a similar series of surprises was declared "a good example of flexibility."

“This is a fairly serious decision, but we made it absolutely balanced, based on the situation that we have today,” the mayor of the capital, Sergei Sobyanin, assured the townspeople.

Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin and chief sanitary doctor of the capital Elena Andreeva during a visit to one of the central vaccination points / mos.ru

The fall in the revenue of restaurants and a cafe without summer verandas during the action of QR codes, according to various estimates, amounted to 60 to 85%, and urban catering as a whole-50%. Many establishments, miraculously surviving last year, this time closed completely. According to the capital's business ombudsman and restaurateur Anastasia Tatulova, over the past two weeks in Moscow, 200 market participants have stopped working-not reaching the statistics of closing for the entire last year (220).

What kind of contribution to the vaccination campaign could such a short -term measure? Sobyanin believes that she directly influenced the results of the last month, during which about 2 million inhabitants of the city made a vaccine from the Covid-19. The research company Ifors Research, which interviewed a thousand Muscovites at the end of June, found out that only for every third of them the receipt of a QR code to the other extent became a reason to think about vaccination. It is more logical to assume that statistics here rather improved the unprecedented pressure of the authorities on employers who were forced to drive personnel in vaccination points under the threat of fine. But judging by the public performances of the city hall officials, they do not like such a version of events.

Many, I believe, have a hearing beloved by the authorities of the argument that life can not pause. Separate, pointed exemptions, which are not always and not to everyone to seem timely, are simply necessary whether last year's voting on amendments to the Constitution or the upcoming elections to the State Duma. However, any exceptions, if taken seriously, suggest the presence of clear and firm rules. And if the arbitrary establishment of the rules of life in the pandemic in everything is dictated only by political expediency, the rules and exclusion in the minds of citizens begin to interrupt into a chain of muddy, contradictory, sporadic decisions. Political scientists delicately call them inconsistent, emphasizing from this complexity to work with public opinion as the vaccination and revaccination campaign expanded. However, such difficulties, it seems, only tempers. At the Saturday meeting with the one -party members, Sergei Sobyanin, the leader of the Moscow List of United Russia, said that "he does not know another force that could take and decide." To undertake to speed up vaccination in June, threatening the Lokdown and “full closure” business, and by mid -July, just at the start of the party’s election campaign in the capital, to effectively resolve the issue. In fresh chronicles of hospitalism.

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