For a few days now, the decree on wearing masks outside has been in effect in Slovenia, and in accordance with it, some individuals try to behave in a collectively friendly and responsible manner, and we also blindly follow this decree. Are we really "butles"?
The last one beautiful autumn last weekend we faced the reality of wearing masks outdoors for the first time in Slovenia. Our neighbors face a similar modern reality Italians have been facing for the past 14 days. They don't have the slightest problem with this and follow the decree of their authorities 100%. I saw this with my own eyes at the beginning of the introduction of the measures and was totally amazed by the exceptional example of the otherwise not exactly rule-following nation. In the Italian Mediterranean consciousness, COVID-19 has been written as a topic that is not "debated" or that is talked about with extreme caution and respect. The rules are followed. They are pointed out to each other. And he punishes violators without mercy! Without a mask, Italians today feel naked. Death has touched more than one way or another 35.000 families.
Without a mask, Italians today feel naked.
But let's go to an idyllic land in the sunny state of the Alps. Our family is quite active and that is why we are being exemplary citizens this weekend followed the instructions professionals, and equipped ourselves with masks at ours as well sports activities Outdoor. Of course, we didn't wear masks all the time, but we put them on when necessary or when we were approaching someone. Our observation was that we are quite special as masks are in the area this weekend Ljubljana carried only the good ones 10 percent walkers. We were mostly met with surprised and even somewhat cynical smiles. I myself was the only "mountaineer" with a mask on Saturday morning when I climbed to the nearby peak in the Kamniška Alps, and I felt completely stupid because of my otherwise exemplary behavior. I took off my mask, because I didn't feel part of the pack. Because I was kicked out of the game. Because I was the only one. Am I really a "bottleneck" because I wear a mask? Can masks really be part of a conspiracy theory?
Conspiracy theories, of course, by economic buffoons
On Sunday morning, I shared the director's note on my social channels UCC Ljubljana, sir The knocker, with the addition of my support for healthcare workers. Under the publication, he found himself receiving quite a lot "stupid" and negative comments. Certain people have labeled me as someone who scores political points and collaborates with global dark forces who want world domination. I became first class supporter and actor in conspiracy theories about world domination, which often go in the direction of the interests of pharmaceutical companies. These are said to have an interest in developing an extremely profitable vaccine that will wipe out COVID-19 from the world. The latter are supposed to practically dominate the world due to their unprecedented earnings. Unfortunately, the proponents of such theories have no idea how it works pharmaceutical companies and their interests, which are always connected with as much prosperity as possible in company. Greater prosperity means greater consumption of medicines and nutritional supplements. The higher our standard, the more diseases we can treat in one way or another. Economic growth is simply extremely pleasing to the pharmaceutical industry. Because of her growth, they are profits of pharmaceutical companies much greater than, for example, "vaccine" and vitamin D. More money and welfare in society automatically means a greater percentage of people with increased weight and related diseases. Poverty will be greater, these diseases will be less and purchasing power will be lower. And pharmacy will have a worse business result. Conspiracy theorists do not understand the basic logic of economics. They can't! They are total "bottles". No one really gains from this epidemic. At the very least, pharmacy. Disturbance other programs treated and the economic crisis is not a "win - win" situation, but a "fail - fail" across the board. This claim is made by a serious skeptic of seasonal flu vaccination and a personal critic of pharmaceutical lobbies that "create" diseases and cures for every fig. For me, cholesterol is not a disease, but an intolerance to animal fats. And it is by no means something that can be treated with extremely long-term harmful drugs, rather with a serious change in lifestyle and diet. The goal of pharmacy is not "crisis", but prosperity and abundance. There is enough money there. Money is literally made there. Pharmacy is not to blame, "butli"!
Primary school mathematics
I'll admit it - I'm "butt"! An excellent "butl" for mathematics. This one didn't work for me at all. Maybe that math remained with me from school until somewhere in the 6th grade of elementary school. I'm comforted that I'm not the only one. Basic percentages and totally simple equations, X is what percentage if it is … and that's also why I'm doing the math on my phone. But sometimes even with really little knowledge it is still possible to calculate the matter accurately enough. This is also why I repeat the famous equation with a simple X.
In Italy, it became infected during the epidemic 414,543 inhabitants of Italy. Of these, 36,543 have died of COVID-19 to date. The percentage of deaths has been slightly better in the recent period, as the health system is functioning smoothly. In the spring months, the mortality rate was as much as 11 percent. But if we go to recalculate the current numbers, we still arrive at a terrible and extraordinary percentage...
Data for Italy:
X = 36,543 (number of dead) x 100 / 414,543 (number of patients)
X = 8.81 %
The figure of 8.8 percent represents an extraordinary mortality rate for COVID-19. The result of a complete breakdown of the healthcare system. Even if we compare the numbers with the global numbers, where countries recorded somewhere around 3% mortality, let's repeat the chain calculation:
Global data:
X = 1,119,305 (number of dead) x 100 / 40,348,237 (number of patients)
X = 2.77 %
Since Slovenians and our government of one kind or another are extremely capable and we apparently reacted correctly to COVID-19 in the spring, we had a comparatively negligible number of deaths. We are as good here as we are in sports. More! We are world champions here. We recorded half as many deaths as the world average. Calculated to date.
Data for Slovenia:
x = 190 (number of dead) x 100 / 13,679 (number of sick)
x = 1.38 %
In principle, no one will "fuck" us with a curfew.
So we are in the first part of the epidemic collapsed ranks. Closed the borders, stopped the economy and succeeded Bringing COVID-19 under control. But it is clear to everyone what price we paid. Practically for 6 weeks the state stopped public life. Restrictions on movement in municipalities. At the same time, we only had 68 people infected on a daily basis. And not 1,000+. We Slovenians paid an extremely small tax, and this exclusively at the expense of exceptional joint action and joint fight against the virus. The health care system has endured. We proved that we know. As we are proving today that we are "ultra butlers" who want to do it in every way test with a virus and achieve group contagion. Let it cost what it wants. In principle, no one will "fuck" us with a curfew. What if he dies 100.000 Slovenians. If we all get it COVID-19, this number may be the one we have to put up with one way or another. Group contagion absolutely not a solution, but a path to tragedy.
Piston crown
"Hey, do you know anyone who has or had corona?!” A question that, sooner or later, still pops up during debates with acquaintances. As if it were not enough that Cristiano Ronaldo and Valentino Rossi are currently overcoming the corona. There is no disease for us. It does not exist. Or rather, it is somewhere far away, in some foreign country strange world. To the world of celebrities. She is clean mirage of deranged individuals, who obviously follow foreign media too much, which, unlike the Slovenian ones, report more deeply and seriously about the corona. In the butalas, the people must not have an insight into what is happening in the big world, so that it doesn't happen by accident too knowledgeable. So that people don't get some crazy idea. When I drive over Austrian borders and stop me the grim look of the Austrian soldier, I think, what's up with that I'm running. Why are they sending an army to the border of such a peaceful country? When FrI live in Paris and a trio of soldiers armed to the teeth on the Champs-Élysées stare at me and I don't understand the French sense of humor. What is wrong with the French sending troops to a romantic city? When I'm nearby Trieste a security guard scolds me for wearing a mask on my chin while taking pictures. Yes, definitely... the world went to three pm*.
I go home to butale, where there is no virus, despite almost 1,000 infected daily.
And where Slovenian soldiers in soaked boots are nowhere to be seen. They hide somewhere in the barracks and train their muscles. Slovenia is the wrong world at the moment. And a Slovene is a wolf to a Slovene. It angers me that the corona crisis has become a training ground for a real political battleground. Civil war left and right options. Those against masks and those for masks. We managed to find Slovenians his war, your own fight, where there is no battlefield and it can only be a graveyard. We are still looking in the past to blame for our future. I still do cyclamen in the same political platitudes, which we are unable to overcome. We still find it easier to believe that the Earth is flat and that the Moon is made of cheese.
We will not leave anyone behind
At the moment when those responsible in Slovenian medical institutions begin to utter the sentences: "We will not leave anyone behind. Everyone will get care. Unfortunately, we do not know what this care will be at any given moment,” when the initiatives for the release of criminal prosecution of health workers begin, it's completely clear to me, that the state did not do homework. That she failed to protect the citizen. To find excuses and shift blame again. That even before the disaster, he tries to protect those responsible for the disaster. When I hear that patients are calling for medical professionals and those from the private sector, I am surprised that the media does not find that one human positive story of a plastic surgeon who is ready to devote himself for the duration of the crisis the greatest health challenge of his life. The bigger one has a D basket and a perfectly straight nose. We have doctors in Slovenia. We have people who have studied medicine in one way or another for a whole decade and it's not like they know the basics. That they once swore to Hippocrates. That they can be a worthy and capable cadre in this war. But no one seems to find them. That there is no consciousness.
When we realize that our medical schools have not performed the basic function of producing an empathetic doctor who knows that he is called to the profession and does the latter with all his being. But then again, it's nobody's fault. Because politics is to blame anyway. This or them. Never me who am just part of the system. And that's the problem. Anyone who did not do absolutely everything in their professional calling to avoid being in the situation we are is guilty. To engage in such statements and justify our future actions is not only extremely irresponsible. It is also completely immature. The profession should solve matters completely differently. Even with extreme pressures on politics. We all knew there would be a second wave. Also because doctors in this virus they haven't talked about waves for a long time. It's a virus. And he will stay. It has no waves. We just behave differently towards him. And that's how he behaves towards us. And this is actually the biggest feature of this virus. It is also a virus that we will not defeat. We will only successfully limit it. Promises to wear only carnival masks at carnivals are promises without the innkeeper (read: virus). Short-term goals similar to feeding a starving child. Give me another spoonful. Total idiocy. Really! The child should be given a short-term goal. But are we really that immature as a nation? Are we really such children?
Ah, masks!
Wearing a mask it is not self protection. Wearing a mask is the new socio-cultural norm. It is the move of an individual and speaks of his cultural status. About respecting your fellow man. We don't wear masks for ourselves. We wear them because of the people we meet. We also wear them because of the group "consciousness" that the virus is among us and that we must overcome it in one way or another. It is the only weapon of the individual in the common fight. It is the only thing we can all do right, as a collective.
The mask is the individual's weapon in the fight against an invisible enemy.
To our common enemy. Breathing is not a constitutional right! These and similar platitudes have been seen online in recent days. When that breathing interferes with the rights of others, our personal rights end. About the same as with passive smoking. That's a fact. Our rights end the moment they interfere with the rights of others. When they interfere with the health of others. And we all have the right to health.
Influencers = media
The influencer becomes the medium at the moment when he is commercially successful and receives payment for his "actions" on social networks. With this status, legally and formally he should also become editorially responsible for his activity and content. It is unacceptable that someone with the power of influence, which in these times can be several times greater than the influence of traditional media, it creates the wrong impression about as serious a situation as it is coronavirus. That you are on the account the absolute point of view gathers "followers" and makes you grow your followers naturally. The whole thing is at least about as sticky as private hot shots of celebrities with their partners, with which celebrities such as Kim Kardashian, skilfully accelerated their careers. I claim you are on extreme positions during the corona crisis they collect like this political points, as well as future earnings and followers. I just can't watch this anymore, as it is completely glued. I even claim that such actions of famous singers and TV presenters kill, are and will be. At the expense of a few thousand followers. A technique that has always been successfully used by dictators and "Führers", and which has often led humanity to destruction. We just don't need to watch this anymore. Therefore, I urge all citizens to report such profiles to social networks and limit their activity. It is for the good of society. Freedom of speech is not before the inviolability of life. It's about as if people encouraged group suicide and would take her away without consequences. As a society, we must not allow this. The fact that everyone can have their own opinion is one thing, but this inviolability of one's own opinion must not interfere with the basic rights of others. This is also why such celebrities should ask themselves if they are not killing with their actions. Do they really know enough about the virus to judge it and they create an opinion? Responsibility - butli!
Ultimately …
This moment should be the goal for all of us, for this to pass as soon as possible. To overcome the matter with really decisive measures and strict adherence to the rules. That we may be as sane and united as we were in the spring months. To support some logical matters and measures. No one is interested in closing things. There are no conspiracies. We all lose here. And if we don't really stick together, this will drag on until spring or even summer 2021. And I believe that if this is the case, we will also experience famine. With some senseless rebellion, it has no meaning this time. I'm the first to stand up to nonsense. And this time I'm doing it on behalf of every life we can save. I resist opportunistic "bulls" and people who fall for "cute" conspiracy ideas. There are none. They are produced only by large "butles".
It will be the hour of truth at the end of the week anyway. This is already an indisputable fact today. For each of us, when the disease touches him for the first time. And today it is absolutely no longer a question, but a fact.
The column expresses the views of the author and does not necessarily reflect the views of the editorial staff of City Magazine.
