Stagnation before breakout. How the pandemic pitted countries, peoples and people

The covid epidemic is again breaking records, including in mortality. The Internet is seething with couch wars of "vaccinators" and "anti-vaccinators", but in real life people are absolutely complacent and do not pay attention to the viral danger. Our man, apparently, has something to fear more than a virus: layoffs, rising prices, bills for housing and communal services and the visit of collectors. We begin to be afraid only of death and only after we get sick.

In general, it is easy to see that the global pandemic clearly shows how much unconscious elements are in the behavior of people all over the planet and how little rational, scientific, planned, proportional and even just logical.



For example, our covid already kills a thousand people a day, there are vaccines that seem to help avoid excess mortality, but at the same time the state advocates voluntariness of vaccination, referring to some kind of civil rights and freedoms. The right to what? Freedom from what? The right to die and freedom from life?

Or is the state itself not sure that general vaccination will save you from mortality and in such a cunning way disclaims responsibility for the statements made earlier?

It seems that the whole point is in the "ratings", in the "popularity" of the authorities. The decision on compulsory vaccination seems unpopular to the vaccinated Putin, therefore he is “against coercion”. Is this a sign of a reasonable, mature society and the power that rises above this society?

Everyone can see that the Chinese, North Koreans and Vietnamese are fighting the pandemic with emergency isolation measures. And they effectively prevent epidemic foci or suppress the epidemic foci behind the outbreak. But no country is in a hurry to adopt this experience. Why? Also "unpopular"? Afraid of offending corporations and entrepreneurs that will lose revenues?

When in Russia 5 thousand people fell ill a day, we sat in "self-isolation", and now, when 30 thousand are added, everyone has practically forgotten even about masks. Where is the logic, consistency, rationality? And so in almost all countries, power rushes from side to side, and society gets used to and adapts without any guiding ideology.

They say that our healthcare system has just adapted to covid, so no crackdown is being imposed. For thirty years we have been optimizing medicine, transferring it to paid and semi-paid rails, introducing cost accounting and per capita financing in polyclinics and hospitals, overloading personnel. We firmly decided that the healing and health care of the people are just services, that is, goods. How could this system “adapt” in a year? Only by diverting medical forces from identifying and treating other diseases, which clearly shows the excess mortality in the country. That is, we adapt to one disease, forgetting about others.

Pandemic is to blame

At the same time, the pandemic as a social phenomenon, as it were, has absorbed all other problems: and economic the crisis, and the growth of poverty, and the aggravation of the international situation. Now the pandemic is blamed for everything. Some analysts even see the pandemic as the "cleansing force" of the market economy. The fact is that the laws of the market during a period of economic downturn and recession require the largest possible destruction of assets in order to “improve” balances and proportions. Usually there are stock market crashes, mass destruction of commodity products, the movement of production to countries with cheaper labor. From this, in a relative sense, the most powerful corporations always benefit, while the masses of medium and small companies go bankrupt and the population impoverishes. But the main way to "revitalize" the markets has always been a war using the most destructive weapons possible. Today, a major war has become difficult, since many countries have acquired nuclear weapons. Consequently, lockdowns and lockouts within the framework of a pandemic in this light can be viewed as a kind of way to equalize the imbalances of the market economy, like a controlled and soft crisis fall.

Of course, the above does not mean that the pandemic is man-made and the conspiracy of the world behind the scenes, but the synchronicity and identity of the government measures of many states shows that behind subjective antiquarian decisions, an objective need is breaking through to curb the world economic crisis, which deeply struck many countries even before the pandemic.

It is easy to see that a pandemic, unlike wars, takes the lives of the elderly and sick people. It sounds cynical, but the pandemic is unloading countries' budgets from pension and medical obligations. And if in almost all countries of the world money is at the forefront (not in words, but in deeds), then why be surprised that the intensity of the fight against the pandemic is not impressive?

Disunity and struggle, not rallying and mutual assistance

Let us recall how the European countries in the first wave left Italy and Spain to the mercy of fate. Let us recall how the USA selfishly tried to outbid the first batches of the vaccine, clearly not for free injections of the “white” poor and “colored” people. Is this the civilized approach to life taught by "Euro-Atlantic values"?

If you read the charter and documents of the UN, it may seem that all countries were simply obliged to rally in the face of global danger. After all, Covid does not understand either citizenship, or races, or nations, and for decades rich countries have sworn loyalty to the ideals of humanitarian aid to poor countries. But in reality, the pandemic has demonstrated that "every man for himself." At least in the Western world.

WHO, as the UN logical unit, was supposed to play the role of the scientific and organizational center for coordinating the fight against the pandemic. What is in reality? She collects statistics, publishes confusing training manuals and essentially plays the role of an outside observer, a chronicler of the epidemic.

Even friendly countries are in no hurry to mutually officially recognize each other's vaccines, protecting not human health, but sales markets for pharmaceutical corporations. The world in the era of a pandemic, amid the sweet speeches of world leaders about the need for rallying and mutual assistance, is polarized and fragmented. The pandemic, by the way, has become the next stage in the destruction of unipolarity.

There are also reverse examples of healthy relationships. Russia helped Italy and other countries. China, by the way, not only injected its citizens with 2,3 billion doses of vaccine, but also provided poor countries with more than 1 billion ampoules for free, and by the end of the year guarantees the supply of another 1 billion. In this sense, the PRC is, of course, a locomotive of adequacy and sanity ...

But nevertheless, the global pandemic has revealed that mankind is too arrogant in considering itself reasonable and civilized. The economies of almost all countries are obviously “sharpened” for enrichment, as V.V. Putin, one percent of the population. Political the sphere is very far from perfect and is torn apart by the contradictions of opposing interests of various groups and strata. Culture has long been in decline, if not in degradation. The peoples are immersed in national, racial squabbles and prejudices monstrous in stupidity.

But it is not all that bad. If there were more stupidity and meanness in people in terms of total potential than rationality and kindness, then humanity would have perished long ago. This means that we are witnessing stagnation before the breakout. The world is on the verge of a new Renaissance era, a reassessment of values ​​and approaches. And science must become the central link in the breakthrough. It is science that allows you to adequately look at things.

To raise the scientific level of society management, the scientific level of the state - this is what we are objectively pushed to by difficult living conditions and social contradictions. The main thing is that the rationalization of humanity should prevent a third world war, and not become its only positive consequence.