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We are not all wrong. Some made more mistakes
Associate Professor Vasil Garnizov, professor of anthropology at the New Bulgarian University, participated today with his report “Tame the epidemic” at the conference “The state of emergency: concepts, practices, policies”, which is held online today. Before it started, he commented on the subject on BNR.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, world leadership has been frightened by the trivialization and appeasement of public opinion in the face of extreme insecurity, and human beings are so structured that they cannot live in insecurity. Instinctively, as individuals and groups, we try to tame insecurity.
When the first data and rumors appeared that something was happening in distant China, The initial reaction from world leadership, for example from the World Health Organization, was: it’s far away, it’s not scary, And China is different, China has already been discovered, China has experience of previous epidemics and is ready to face it. They are things that do not affect us or if they affect us they will be like a mild flu.
Then all of a sudden, it turned out that this description of the impending disaster was extremely inadequate, and he went to another extreme – deep uncertainty – we do not know what is happening, how it is transmitted, how deadly it is, we do not have drugs, we do not have vaccines.
Learning to live with the virus is a form of domestication.
The greatest tamers of the virus are not virologists, nor laboratories, but ordinary people who have to turn their imagination, personal experience, historical experience, group experience and find a place: a cell in their mind where to put what comes. On this basis, doctors continue this domestication in a completely different way.
When world leadership failed to tame the virus, the weight of national and local authorities was suddenly raised. Each national culture responded in a special way. For example, the difference between the centralized reaction of France and the United States, where the pandemic passes without a unified system of closures and restrictions, and the controversy over them marked the entire presidential campaign.
In this context, Bulgaria initially considered that this wild virus should be domesticated and exploited due to uncertainty. in the most radical way, with very severe closure measures, including the blockade of cities. People endured then two and a half months later, the Bulgarian government went to the other side; We have already tamed this virus, now we will live with it, go and lead your daily life in peace.
Until the fall it reminds us again that we are far from technically tame the virus. And now, again, they wavered, wavered, and finally introduced something in between. At least they didn’t close the parks and gardens and at least they didn’t blockade cities.
The political elite that made the decisions were wrong. I do not agree with the position of the Minister of Health that we are all wrong. We are not all wrong. Some made more mistakes.
Listen to the full interview in the sound file.
The column “Analysis” presents different points of view, the opinions expressed do not necessarily coincide with the editorial position of “Dnevnik”.
