More on Covid…in Russia

 

He's The Problem



I find myself writing a lot about Covid in Russia. That’s because there is a lot of Covid in Russia. According to a January 29, Associated Press article, the country is up to at least 110,000 new cases a day.* And it is probably much more than that because Moscow hasn’t exactly been forthcoming about the numbers of its people catching and/or dying of the disease.


Why is the country having such high rates of infection? Mostly because Russians are highly resistant to getting vaccinated. They just don’t trust the shots — even though Russia was the first country off the mark with an effective Covid vaccine, Sputnik V.


And why don’t they trust vaccines? Partly because Putin’s Russia has been engaging in a long-term, far reaching effort to spread fear, uncertainty, and doubt (the fabulous FUD) about western vaccines. The trouble being that rumors have a way of coming back to get you. Russians have been hearing the same disinformation that everyone else has…and so…


There is a lesson here. Particularly when it comes to pandemics, honesty really is the best policy. Unless, of course, you’re happy to let your own people die. 


Which is to say that you are monster.


But, alas, maybe there are monsters everywhere…


Even in the Kremlin.



~mjt



Source: “Russia’s daily COVID-19 count soars above 110,000,” AP News, January 29, 2022 GMT, https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-health-europe-russia-pandemics-68088e45ddb1c674147b47cbd1da3bcd






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