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Sotiris Tsiodras in the first phase of the coronavirus epidemic in Greece, rightly so, was a guide for citizens, who were looking for scientifically-based answers and specific instructions on how to deal with the unprecedented health threat.
It was the period when the government listened to scientists, without the idea of political exploitation and narratives about the “safest country” and “we open it up and we are waiting for you.”
Mr. Tsiodras at that time may have had his always soft style, yet he constantly spoke with facts and explained the next steps of a plan, which existed and as a result was successful.
Then the teacher left the foreground, having warned that when we see him again with Nikos Hardalias things will go wrong. He made another appearance when the cases started to go uphill and reappeared yesterday. The darkest hour of the epidemic in Greece, until next time.
And his comeback was the exact opposite of what inspired public confidence in the past. It was an apparition of a politician, recruited to move, at a time when we needed the scientist again with his data and instructions.
A skirted attitude, “air”, glorious descendants of glorious ancestors, hope mixed with fear, scattered advice and invocation of emotion.
Tsiodras may have spoken of a “conscience” and a “matter of the heart”, but in other words, it was simply the narrative of “individual responsibility”, which justifies the inability of the government to act at the right time and enforce its .
The reference to the means of transport and the instructions to avoid crowds as much as possible, were out of place and time because very simply people at work have this option of movement and the government offers them this number of buses and trains, with the known and assist the spread of the coronavirus frequency of services.
At the same time, when referring to several cases of rallies, he left the priests unharmed, although to be fair the issue ended there with Mr. Hardalias, who, after the massive images in Ag. Demetrios, judged that the Church “is at the forefront of the national effort “.
Finally, the adoption of the view that the blockade is the last of the last options, can only be explained if the issue of the economy is weighed, which, however, is not a matter for Mr. Tsiodras. Of these there are others responsible with the pillows and pillowcases of billions of euros and the money that will rain from Europe (if we can absorb them).
The reappearance of the teacher is difficult to understand in what made us wiser for the next steps and with the rate of increase of cases out of control.
The fact that Mr. Tsiodras did not come to tell us anything specific, but was consumed in reprimands, is first sad and second terrifying.
Sad because in the first phase of the pandemic, he himself played an important role in the cold attitude of citizens and this will be a mark forever. But first it was a scientist and then the “hot guy” who advises us.
Terrifying, because if the ace up the government’s sleeve at this critical moment is “Sotiris comes forward to tell him so” and not a coherent plan – even harsh – with advanced measures and provision of financial assistance to the victims, then we have very bad .
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