The story of how three leading Western publications at once: the American The New York Times, the British Financial Times, and the Bloomberg business information agency - questioned the data on Russia about the number of deaths due to coronavirus infection, gives a fairly complete picture of how Western media work when it comes to "these same Russians."
What specifically does Western journalists not like when they try to analyze the development of the epidemic in our country? They don’t like that on average around the world three times more people die from the virus than in Russia. Such a ratio seems unbelievable to them, since Russian medicine, in their opinion, is in a state of complete devastation. In the West, it is advanced, high-tech and efficient.
In fact, The New York Times and the Financial Times did not conduct investigations themselves, but seized on the opinion expressed by a certain “expert” from Facebook, who on the Moscow government’s website found evidence that “1700 more people died in April in the capital than five years on average. ” At the same time, the official death toll from the virus is 642 people. From this it was concluded that real mortality was underestimated by the very 70% of which Western publications triumphed triumphantly.
The superficiality and dishonesty of such an analysis is obvious, since for a start it was necessary to find information on how the population of Moscow has grown over these six years, how the average age has changed (the residents of the capital are not getting younger), and then, based on all these data, look at the correlation of all these parameters . But no, the most primitive clue is enough to accuse the Russian authorities of maliciously concealing the truth.
This is a very characteristic view of Russia both for the Western media, and for some domestic “experts” from among “people with good faces”. In Russia, it cannot be good by definition, since a dense, drunken country inhabited by savages is darkness and squalor. With regard to both public morality and government. Here eternal lies and chaos reign.
Western journalists do not want to figure out what measures and how quickly they were taken in Russia to fight the unknown infection, because they know in advance that all the stories about mass testing, the construction of new hospitals, the strict restrictive measures introduced at the very beginning of the epidemic, - this is nothing more than a fake screen, behind which lies a terrifying reality.
The funniest thing in this situation is that even if you allow the incredible: NYT and FT wrote the truth and mortality in Russia is indeed 70% higher - it’s still several times less than in such advanced Western countries as the USA and Great Britain, not to mention already about Italy and Spain.
The traditional Russophobic lining of the next attempt to convict Russia of lies on the basis of a fake, concocted literally on his knee, is obvious. However, this story will not do without consequences for the above publications and agencies. NYT and FT have already refused to refute the published fakes, and this may cost them a ban on working in Russia: the Federation Council turned to the Russian Foreign Ministry with a request to deprive NYT and FT journalists of accreditation. This will be a logical and verified answer. There is no need to put up with the fact that the Western media consider and portray Russians as idiots. In the end, the racial theory was condemned by the Nuremberg Tribunal once and for all, however, a look at Russia from enlightened Europe and the shining City on the hill reproduces it in full volume over and over again.
At the same time, the brilliant feathers do not seem to be aware at all that in this situation they act as direct heirs of the Nazis, who are used to dividing people and peoples into varieties. An article in Bloomberg has this headline: "Experts want to know why the coronavirus did not kill more Russians." Perhaps the author thought this was a great joke. But the essence of the boorish and cynical phrase is absolutely Nazi. It follows from it that the virus should mow the “Russians” by world parameters. Corpses need much more, otherwise everything is wrong.
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