11.12.2020, Moscow.
The Russian authorities’ mindless copying of Western measures to combat the coronavirus has a high price, political scientist and leader of the Essence of Time movement Sergey Kurginyan said on December 7 on the air of the Evening with Vladimir Solovyov TV program on the Russia One TV channel.
“Here we have a statement made at a high-level government level that apparently, our foreign partners conveyed something exaggerated to us, and we treated the elderly wrong,” Kurginyan noted. “And what is the price of this issue?”
The authorities have apologized, but in the expert’s opinion the proposed strategy is erroneous and will have large costs.
Kurginyan stressed that coronavirus infection is an undeniable reality, but there is a gap between the threat and the response to it worldwide.
“Count the number of these patients, they do not correspond to a pandemic level at all. Which is not to say that we don’t sympathize with everyone who is sick, nor do we say we shouldn’t do anything about it. But this disease in its scale does not correspond to a pandemic,” said the political scientist. He noted that no one reacted to other more dangerous diseases in such a way.
The expert stressed that the Swine influenza was more dangerous and they tried to stir up a panic around it, but it did not work out.
On December 5, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova said that the authorities went overboard with quarantine measures for the elderly at the beginning of the pandemic.
“Having received information from our partners from abroad that elderly people suffer the most from this disease [COVID-19], we of course rushed to protect them, but it was probably not the most successful way of protection, i.e. we locked them up,” the Deputy Prime Minister explained.
Source: Rossa Primavera News Agency
