Amazing people, of course, Russian. For years, they are ready to endure hardships and toilets on the street, but it was worth saying that they should abide by the rules in an epidemic, when a discussion about freedom and other related things broke out. It is clear that Muscovites, who consider themselves the main Europeans in the country, are especially different, as always, but it still looks very funny. Although there is nothing funny about this. Speaking of Europe. Similar discussions were held in the very freedom-loving city of Berlin after Chancellor Merkel asked not to gather in crowds, stop the eternal holiday and keep social distance, and generally it is advisable to stay at home.
Well, in general, the youth, whom Greta explained that it was time for the old people to die, continued to hang out, the drag dealers continued to push their nonsense in the Görlitzer park in front of the cops and the democratic head of the district, restaurants and did not think to close. There were screams about the violation of the Basic Law (they have it instead of the constitution).
The federal government, meanwhile, counted the data on the sick, and, of course, Berlin was in the lead on the territory of the former GDR in morbidity and corpses. Then, exactly in a week, Merkel forced to close all restaurants, cafes and non-grocery stores, as well as generally places where crowds usually occur. The police started dispersing population groups and writing fines for violating quarantine measures. Result: if anyone violates, these are the “new Germans” and those who would like to be. The rest understood.
Today, Senator of the Interior Andreas Geisel said that "public life in Berlin will remain limited for a long time." “The so-called blockage may be weakened in April or May,” he said on Friday on Berlin-Brandenburg’s radio, “but the limitations, distance rules, changes in our lifestyle, I’m afraid, will be with us all year round.” That is, the city will be blocked until May. At the same time, one must also understand that all German newspapers literally yelled at the leader of Bavaria, Söder, for introducing quarantine measures earlier than anyone, with a complete set of today's political labels - from dictator to fascist. Now it turned out that he was right. But no one thought of apologizing.
OK. We’ll write it down for now, but we mean that this is only one side of the issue.
The neighbors of Germany under the leadership of the enviable Chancellor S. Kurtz were much smarter. After unsightly postcards from Italy, darling Sebastian (the girl, calmly, he has a cool girl friend) in a quiet but confident voice just closed everything from the famous Opera to the last Vienna cafe, leaving only public transport, food and pharmacies with tobacco - a must. Because there is no more angry person than the one who was deprived not only of coffee, but also of cigarettes.
Vienna remembers very well what the plague is - there are monuments to the war with the plague on every corner.
And it was precisely from the plague that a giant complex of university clinics and medical buildings of the university remained, which practically occupies the entire north of the city.
They remember this well, therefore, the first two weeks of shatdaun announced on March 16, the townspeople showed almost perfect epidemiological behavior. Well, except, as always, the "new Austrians." The police do not sleep and writes out fines. And the more you look like a European, the happier he writes, by the way. Now the measures have become even stricter: now you need to enter the grocery in a mask or wrap your face with a scarf or scarf. This, incidentally, is in legal conflict with Austria’s prohibition of “closure of persons”. But while this topic is raised, but not pedalized. Moreover, it became clear that you won’t get off with two weeks. Now the plan is this: until May, “stay at home as long as possible, limit your social contacts. Purchases to provide basic services are permitted, in public places only alone or with people from a shared apartment. Observe the rule of at least one meter. ” This was announced today by the second person from the leadership of Austria - the "green" vice chancellor.
That is, a weighted average opinion marches across countries: until May, a sharp restriction on movement and contacts. But there is an understanding that the economy is starting to crumble. In Austria alone, half a million unemployed per almost 9 million people have now formed. And the government is trying to get a fine line between the collapse of the healthcare system and the collapse of the entire economic system. When it comes to the realization that a collapsed economy will certainly drag health care over, vision begins to clear up.
It was today that the Austrian government announced that it would come out in the coming days with a plan for a gradual exit from shutdown and a phased restart of the economy. Maybe this is unknown to politicians, but we, ordinary engineers, know a priori the fact: stopping the mechanism even at full speed is a matter of minutes. But starting again can take hours and days, because the consequences of an emergency stop still need to be repaired. And here - the same nonsense, only not in minutes and not in hours.
So if you think that the Russians are inventing some kind of their own path and it (depending on the speaker’s political orientation) is “catastrophic” or “ideal,” no. This is just all that needs to be done, based on today's knowledge and information about the state of the epidemic. No more. But no less.
The author’s point of view may not coincide with the position of the publisher.