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– Lithuania is experiencing a strange period in which the world is in the middle of a new pandemic. How do you live in the past? – Entrepreneur Jolanta BLAŽYTĖ asked “Vakaro žinios”.
– The business is spinning, but only by inertia, using the “fuel” injected before the pandemic. The previous steady advance has stopped. New planned projects stall due to traffic restrictions. The opening of new markets is stagnating, and if the government is happy that the GDP in Lithuania has fallen slightly, it just doesn’t know what early work means.
At that time, I have a good time for self-education as the pace of movement slows down. When I no longer need to delve into business markets, I can delve into the world situation. You need to put some pressure on your brain to avoid atrophy.
– After lengthy discussions, universal quarantine was returned to Lithuania. Do you think this is the correct solution?
– With such a massive psychosis due to COVID-19, I think quarantine is inevitable. Because to speak out against any quarantine by any politician would amount to political suicide. Would it be very interesting to know what objectives we are pursuing by introducing that quarantine? Perhaps we hope that after 3 or 6 weeks of survival the quarantine virus will take off and disappear? But they are “grandmother’s tales”, the virus, so to speak, so be it. So what do we do next?
Prof. Vytautas Kasiulevičius says that it would be ideal to reduce the number of cases to 200 cases per day. And why exactly 200? And why not up to 100? Not up to 500? And what about those 1000?
It is clear that panic is hanging over the disruptive healthcare system. Then another question arises: why was she stabbed? Why were only 400 beds prepared for COVID-19 patients, when there are approximately 7,000 free beds in Lithuanian hospitals? I hear children’s explanations that this is not possible, special sections are needed, etc. What is impossible? Move beds?
I remember the crisis caused by the Russian embargo on Lithuania. At that time, entrepreneurs were somehow able to move their markets from East to West. We worked for days without knowing what the rest was. And nothing, we survive, we recover. And the public sector is not currently changing beds from one compartment or dwelling to another. Neither laugh nor cry.
Of course, you can shut down blind, lie under the bed and wait for the virus to clear or the vaccine to appear. But what happens if the virus does not disappear or if another appears immediately? So what? Are we going to spend our lives crawling under the bed?
In addition, I have seen a number of statistics showing that quarantine seriously damages people’s mental health and increases the use of antidepressants. I wonder why no one talks publicly about people being “sheltered” by quarantined businesses, living in the dark, by lack of communication, and how much and how human health is affected by the lack of availability of medical services.
I think quarantine advocates are on the easy path without realizing what long-term systemic issues are putting pressure on society as a whole.
– The highest government does not want to hear such questions. And due to his unsystematic evaluation of the 5G connection, he has even complained to the Office of the Inspector of Journalistic Ethics.
– I do not value the 5G connection, but I only cite articles by world famous scientists and doctors about the damage caused by electromagnetic radiation. I take data for my articles from research databases, usually from PubMed. So when I asked Marius Urbonas (Head of the Health Risk Factor Assessment Division of the Lithuanian National Public Health Laboratory) just a few logical questions, like why did he allow to increase the electromagnetic pollution standards by up to 10 Sometimes when 10 years ago even 10 times lower standards were called harmful, it turned out that this official cares more about his “honor and dignity” than about the health of us and our children. And instead of answering specific questions, he simply ran to complain to the Office of the Inspector of Journalistic Ethics. As if a small child were running to complain to his mother. You probably forgot that you are an adult and in a responsible position.
– But the majority blindly believe what the government communicates.
– And who said that the government is smarter than me, than you or my neighbor Peter? Is the absolute power of the Universe that must be believed unconditionally? When there are concrete facts that we elect the most intelligent of all possible to power, then I will believe everything the chosen ones say. Furthermore, the government’s list of hoaxes is so long that their statements can be unconditionally believed unless they are aliens from space.
– But people who speak too boldly risk their popularity, they are classified as marginalized, conspiracy theorists, etc. Wouldn’t it be easier to support public opinion?
– Anokia is fortunate to be here as a statistical unit of the crowd, which seems to have the right to freedom of expression, but only within the strictly defined limits of a certain ideology.
In my life, all limits are wide and “non-standard.” And happiness here is being popular if, in return, one has to live in a prison created by strange thoughts, beliefs and manipulations.
By the way, our “tough influencers” sometimes include even the world’s most famous scientists or even Nobel Prize winners on the margins.
For example, the famous Barington Declaration proposing the lifting of the quarantine and focusing on vulnerable groups has been signed by more than 12,000 people. doctors and 35 thousand. Practicing physicians. One of the initiators of the statement is Stanford University professor and Nobel Prize winner Michael Levit. Are these professionals hardly conspiracy theorists too? If so, it is my honor and pleasure to be in your “company.”
By the way, I’m not saying it’s unpleasant to be in a company where the boundaries of the perceived world fit the news broadcast on CNN. Everything is fine there, only there is no improvement or development of the worldview there.
– People actively share their records, so it can be said that they are also becoming an “influencer”.
– If I had the specific goal of becoming an opinion maker, I would act in a completely different way. Now, I feel a civic duty to provide people with information that might be important to them.
It is already true that my sense of social responsibility covers a wider area than, for example, not throwing plastic cups into the forest.
By the way, I can advertise a good product or service for free. But making money selling thoughtful ideas is definitely not.
– This is a difficult time for Lithuania. Not only because of the pandemic, but also because of the change of government.
– The new Seimas is as is and will be for four years. I have no expectations, because the higher the expectations, the greater the frustrations.
I read the electoral programs of the parties of the future ruling coalition. I found such sets of slogans and abstractions there that I realized I didn’t have the IQ to figure out what those parties were going to do specifically with our state. I only understood the value aspects. They are not acceptable to me, but they are “transporting” the young people, so we will have to reach an agreement.
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