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During the first quarantine in the spring, the Lithuanian population behaved in a fairly disciplined manner, respecting the restrictions and recommendations. After the announcement of the second quarantine, the situation looks quite different. This is also demonstrated by the alarmingly increasing number of COVID-19 and deaths.
“We just realized that it wasn’t as dangerous as it was. Probably, the recommendations given by the specialists were taken lightly ”, says the psychiatrist-psychotherapist, founder of the Ąžuolynas Clinic. Raimundas Alekna.
Luke April / 15min photo / Raimundas Alekna
Why are people no longer afraid?
– After the restrictions were introduced during the first quarantine, the population was closed with enough discipline. What caused it?
– It was only driven by fear. In fact, it was not very clear what the disease was.
There was a lot of information in the media about the situation in Italy, in other countries, that there is a very high mortality rate. It scared people.
Probably the majority of the public listened to the recommendations.
Businesses have responded to this as well, as there have been government guarantees that losses will be compensated, funds will be allocated to those who will not be able to work and will not receive income.
Sigismund Gedvila / 15min photo / Quarantine in the streets of Vilnius
– During the second quarantine we see the opposite situation. Despite the threatening images, they are no longer of Italian patients, but ours, those threatening numbers: newly infected COVID-19, deaths from the disease, many people rushing to Christmas tree lighting festivals, supermarkets full of people . What caused the second quarantine to not work?
– Lithuania looked great in the spring. Especially in the number of sick and deceased.
Perhaps the impression is that it is not as dangerous as it was said at the beginning.
Probably, the recommendations given by the specialists were taken lightly.
Perhaps this was largely due to the fact that the authorities, the Health Minister, communicated a bit more convincingly in the spring and seemed more concerned than in this post-election period.
Smells a little nonchalant.
I think there is a certain laziness in communicating more all the recommendations to people about what they should do to reduce the risk of infection and one might hope that there are not as many patients at the same time as there are now.
The main problem is that we are about to have free beds in the medical facilities.
Although our doctors and nurses, the doctors, work in a very skilled way, we cannot expect society to live as it wants, and if something happens that someone gets sick, the doctors will not cure it.
It may happen that there is simply no place to hospitalize a sick person, even if it is necessary.
Photo by Vidmantas Balkūnas / Clínica VUL Santara. Fight against coronavirus
It can also happen that there are simply no human resources left, there will be no doctors to treat.
In addition, as the number of COVID-19 patients needing hospital care increases, so does the volume of other treatment services.
The profile of other patient rooms is changing, including coronavirus patients.
Other conditions are likely to be delayed, and when treatment becomes available again, it will already be difficult to adjust those conditions to the level that can be achieved by starting treatment earlier.
This should be taken into account and, as far as possible, be careful not to get infected.
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