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In Bulgaria, he is already really “dying hard”, and Borisov does not stop boasting of prosperity in the country he rules. But the facts are the facts. There they are:
High mortality is not something a country can be proud of. But for Bulgaria it has been a statistical fact for years. In fact, poverty and low standards of living. At the end of February, exactly two weeks before the parliament declared a state of emergency due to the COVID-19 pandemic, data from the World Health Organization were released, according to which Bulgaria is the country with the death rate highest: 15.4 per 1,000 inhabitants. Cardiovascular and oncological diseases are responsible for more than 80% of this mortality. When the WHO data in question was published, there were still no officially registered cases of death from coronavirus in Bulgaria.
How many people die in Bulgaria?
Almost 9 months later, this fact was used by GERB MP Toma Bikov in an attempt to somehow excuse the high death rate from COVID-19. On the air of Nova TV, he said that Bulgaria ranked first in terms of mortality even before the pandemic. “If we have to talk about mortality, we have to point out that we have a lower health status for various reasons. From an unhealthy lifestyle to a lack of prevention,” Bikov said. Understandably for a ruling majority deputy, on the “number of reasons” one gets lost: the management of the COVID crisis in Bulgaria.
What does the public database of the National Institute of Statistics (NSI) show about deaths in Bulgaria? One of the graphs (the INE stipulates that the data for 2020 are preliminary) illustrates the increase in deaths in 2020 compared to the average number of deaths in the period 2015-2019. If from the beginning of the year to June in most weeks there is even a decrease in deaths compared to the average level for the period 2015-2019, from July a sustained growth begins, which increases strongly in the autumn. The negative trend is clearly visible in October, when the number of deaths reached 11,085 compared to 9,526 in 2019. And if in August the number of deaths was 7,720, a little more than in August 2019, only during the first two weeks In November the death toll was 7040. This is an increase of more than 40% compared to the same period last November, when their number was 4154.
The mortality statistics do not seem to have particularly impressed the rulers, who waited all summer and most of the fall before introducing any measure on November 21. They probably would not have done so if headlines such as “Bulgaria ranked first in terms of COVID-19 mortality in Europe” had not appeared. Headlines that damage the image of a prime minister who boasts at least twice a week of the prosperity of the country he governs. This last weekend was also used. On Saturday in the Velingrad village of Birkova, Boyko Borissov drew attention to the crowd shopping in shopping malls on Friday night and said “we will be the first to emerge from the crisis.” And on Sunday from Plovdiv, again on the waves of joy, he concluded that the economy is working and nothing has changed.
With your back to the facts, in front of the camera
Ignoring the death toll, Borissov boasted that “in the summer, when others closed, we opened the entire economy.” And he promises to relax us after “two or three weeks,” during which “to protect ourselves, wear masks, and keep our distance.” He absolved himself of the responsibility of the confinement with the words: “We try not to create panic, but on the other side of the scale are the doctors. They tell me: the pressure is enormous, let’s reduce it in two or three weeks. “
Since he made a mistake in 2012, boasting that in three years of GERB rule, life expectancy in Bulgaria has increased by an average of one year, Borissov relies only on advertising such as “an eye to see, a hand to play”. Excavators, workers. Roads, workers. Factories, workers. Gas pipelines, workers.
He turned his back on the facts that the GERB decade never managed to change for the better. Because, in addition to the highest mortality, Bulgaria is also the country with the lowest life expectancy in the EU.
Why in a country where the dams are full, the audience ratings (high, the factories) are uncountable and people leave the shopping centers with their hands full, so “difficult to die”? Borisov calls this tiresome.
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