– Three months we have a row about these crazy weddings that were taking place. How many thousand people from these weddings ended up in hospitals? – asked professor Krzysztof Simon on TVN24, a Lower Silesian consultant in the field of infectious diseases. He pointed out that actions such as the appearance of politicians without masks in the situations and places where they should wear them “disorganizes a society that is rebellious anyway.”
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During the last day, laboratory tests confirmed coronavirus infection in another 1,967 people – this is the highest daily increase in infections since the beginning of the epidemic in Poland. Another 30 people have died due to COVID-19, the Ministry of Health reported on Thursday.
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“It completely disrupts the society that ours is rebellious anyway”
Professor Krzysztof Simon, a Lower Silesian consultant in the field of infectious diseases, said that he did not see the possibility of another lockdown because “we will have nothing to live on”. He added that the most important thing is to raise public awareness of the pandemic and the consistent actions of the authorities. – After all, what happened a few months ago – stories about these great victories over the epidemic – is absurd. Juggling these data depending on the elections – he said.
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He recalled that orders to wear masks were issued, and then politicians could be seen without them at ceremonies. – This completely disorganizes a society that is rebellious and quite aggressive anyway. This is not only the specificity of Poland, because there are different groups – anti-vaccination movements, flat earth movements – explained the professor.
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He stressed the importance of social solidarity with “the sick, the poor, the weaker and other people who may suffer”. – We don’t have places in two branches today. You have to open up the remaining units. There was no such need until a month ago, said Professor Simon. – These rules that are appearing now are rational, but with this amount of infections, if they are not respected by citizens and not enforced, they will lead to the fact that it will all be one big red zone and, like in Taiwan or Korea, will wear masks, keep distance. This is nothing unusual in the public space, as long as there is no vaccine, because the epidemic has unfortunately become permanent – he warned.
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