In Moscow, the regime of self-isolation and passes was canceled overnight. Yesterday, Muscovites weren’t allowed to take to the streets spontaneously, not on schedule and without permission, as already today - everything is possible. Is this an unexpected gift in honor of the summer weather, a justified decision in connection with the calm development of the pandemic, or a planned move, thought out in advance by the mayor's office, but announced at the last moment, so as not to frighten luck?
On the one hand, it’s good, after all. So, we managed, the quarantine and the danger of the virus are behind, or at least a crisis point. If only there was no second wave of infections, if only a quality vaccine appeared, if only there were no mass conspiracy theories, fakes and alarming calls from our foreign brothers.
On the other hand, somehow incredulously. Many with whom I communicate have one and the same question: why then it was necessary to sound the alarm and frighten, so that in the end, like this, abruptly forgive everyone and let go? Could the situation have changed so much in one day that yesterday we lived with restrictions, and today - as if nothing had happened all this time.
Swings of moods and fears are absolutely understandable, especially after long months of uncertainty and confinement. You just need to slowly learn to believe each other again.
I think that the city government itself, and indeed any government of any country and city, at some point encountered their own impotence before a misunderstanding of the situation. Coronavirus - a test of strength, including composure and nerve cells. This is something that no one has ever encountered. Or vice versa, this is what our ancestors faced when there was no high-quality medicine, sensible scientific discoveries and the plague roamed. We thought that this was already behind us, left in the distant past and we are omnipotent, but the world threw us a test. Now I want to think more about the future and warn of possible similar dangers.
Personally, I can forgive City Hall jambs and turbulence in decision making. After all, the same people are in power, there’s no escape from the human factor. And who knows how someone else would behave in a similar situation. It seems to me that in this sense, Muscovites were lucky - the fight against the virus was decent, and the measures taken were fair and timely.
I would like to hope that even now the decisions are justified and not risky for the population.
Life will slowly return to normal. Not the fact that in the familiar, in the one that was before. Still, the world has changed, we have changed with it. How many restaurants and small / medium-sized businesses went bankrupt, how much, on the contrary, it adapted and went online, creating a new niche, how many people lost their jobs. But we will nevertheless return to some new norm.
Past experience makes it possible to learn and keep in mind important lessons - the value of close and personal communication (and not just online meetings and drinking alcohol on Zoom), the possibility of high-quality work in a distributed office format and remote work, waiting for support from the state, including the number of payments to entrepreneurs and an operational open summary of the situation and so on.
I am glad to congratulate everyone on the fact that the main fear is behind us, we have adapted, and I hope that the others feel the same. Unity and community, a shared history, a common ailment that affected at least one acquaintance of acquaintances, and in someone - claimed the lives of loved ones, somehow made us stronger.
The point of view of the author may not coincide with the position of the publisher.