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“In the store, I see masks crushed, when a person probably wears the same mask for several weeks and keeps it in his pocket along with a handkerchief and gloves. During the day, if I go out somewhere, I wear six to eight masks. I don’t use them at home. But people still use the same thing, “wondered A. Laiškonis.
The professor is also concerned about the behavior of people wearing masks under their chins in public transport.
“I was beaten on the bus several times when I asked ‘be nice, put on a mask to protect other people.’ He said: “I am not sick, I will not get sick, you will not get sick,” people replied very rudely.
Our people don’t understand the fact that this is an invisible problem. If none of the family members get sick, people don’t react much, “said A. Laiškonis.
A lifelong doctor and scientist with a specific example said that people understand the dangers of that virus when faced with problems.
“When three people died in a small town in Samogitia, the town changed one hundred percent, masks and hand washing appeared. Because people close to them died and saw that they couldn’t even say goodbye: packed, closed, taken out, cremated, ”said A. Laiškonis.
Now don’t go to an outdoor cafe
The professor admits that he himself would not want to visit an outdoor cafe right now.
“When I saw people behaving in an outdoor cafe right now, they don’t follow any protection. I got the image as if they were exiting the circuit, trying to show that they were something special. From what I have seen on television, in Kaunas or Vilnius they don’t come to drink coffee or tea, to communicate, they come with noise, with some self-expression, and this is something very dangerous ”, commented A. Laiškonis. .
The teacher is disappointed by the behavior of the young people.
“They say they are all tired. They are tired of not being able to enter the cafe. My parents’ generation was tired of being transported to Siberia, they had nothing to feed their children. And no one ever complained of being tired.
I am very moved when I remember when echoes were formed in Siberia and we children took those people to eat soup. Now we cannot survive without going abroad or having a drink in a cafe, ”said A. Laiškonis.
For those who absolutely want to travel abroad in the summer, the teacher advises to study carefully beforehand what the situation is in that country or whether self-isolation is necessary when you return.
“I have no doubt that when large numbers of people move through Europe in the summer, we will have a higher infection rate due to delays in vaccination. (…) If Lithuanians traveled through our native Lithuania in the summer, saw beautiful churches, small towns, how they fixed them, they would certainly not lose anything, because they could return home at any moment, and in a foreign country they take risks. . But people now don’t know how not to vacation abroad, “said A. Laiškonis.
Proposes to allow vaccination against the age cartel
The professor, who has dedicated his life to fighting infectious diseases, does not believe that every effort should be made at this time to vaccinate older people who do not want to be vaccinated.
“People who don’t get vaccinated won’t do anything for them. It was very strange for me when the prime minister rides, and every grandmother is persuaded to get vaccinated. There are people who have never been vaccinated and will not get vaccinated.
In my opinion, a vaccination poster should be allowed at this time, to start vaccinating people over 55, those who work, those who want to be vaccinated, and not to catch a grandmother who lives on the edge of a forest somewhere. In my life, I have never been able to convince a single person not to want to be vaccinated. I don’t even think about how to convince those people, if they don’t want to, not to get vaccinated, “said A. Laiškonis.
Overall, the professor criticized government decisions that essentially eased the quarantine conditions.
“It just came to our notice then. 100,000 The population has already reached more than 500 cases in 14 days, and we are constantly releasing quarantine. I mean, we say and do the opposite. When we no longer limit our lives, we try to please our greats. entrepreneurs, who, as I understand it, are demanding relief from the government.
We will see if we have another wave, and it will hit in the summer, when the tourist season starts and people move a lot, it will be very difficult. We see that throughout the holidays. I look forward to Mother’s Day. There will be no restrictions, we will drive all over Lithuania. Not all mothers have been vaccinated yet, “said A. Laiškonis.
The coronavirus defeated the flu
The fact that the incidence of influenza is extremely low this year does not surprise any infectious disease specialist.
“One thing, if we use all the flu tools (masks, hand washing, ventilation, isolation, communication restrictions), it goes without saying that we have one side of the coin.
The second thing we forget about the classical laws of virology is so-called viral interference. It is a law such that if two viruses appear at the same time, the strongest always wins. A stronger virus defeats a weak one. The weak virus cannot spread. And we have a great example of viral interference this year, when a coronavirus infection completely blocked the flu. As for I had to talk to family doctors all over Lithuania, the flu cases were practically not diagnosed, ”said A. Laiškonis.
According to the professor, the coronavirus is an airborne droplet infection that is not much different from the flu we already know.
“There is one thing that makes the coronavirus special is that if the flu forms are symptomatic, then the coronavirus infection has asymptomatic forms. They are very dangerous because when we come into contact with these people we do not know if they are sick because they do not feel it. It contributes a lot to the spread of this virus, “said A. Laiškonis.
At the same time, the professor reminded us of what the flu has already taught us about airborne infections and what can be applied to coronavirus prevention.
“We know that it spreads indoors, when there is close human contact, when there are unventilated rooms and when one or more carriers of the flu virus enter that transmit the infection to others by coughing or sneezing. And passersby carry the resulting infection home.
The epidemic no longer spreads in days but in hours. We know better that the first thing we need in such cases is ventilation and, of course, the use of personal protective equipment. I mean masks, hand washing, everything you do best, ”said A. Laiškonis.
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