Thread by @akoz33

Yulia Latynina is one of the most consistent and fearless voices of rationality and true enlightement in our times, so I coukd not resist translating (roughly) the beginning of her regular Ekho Moskvy and YouTube talk on current events in a Russia and abroad (код ДОСТУПА)

I have good news. In Russia, a cure for coronavirus has been developed. The Alexandro-Nevsky Novo-Tikhvin Nunnery has released a frankincense with enhanced antiviral effect. And, as the monastery notes, its parishioners rarely get sick, because the incense that is

used during services cleans the air of all viruses.

I must say that I have not heard of any double-blind, randomized trials of whether frankincense helps against the virus, although in the Pentateuch of Moses, Book of Numbers, chapter 17 such an incident is recorded.

In general, I want to remind you why incense. Do not forget that the temples of antiquity, acted as slaughterhouses. In all of them, including in the Jerusalem temple, a huge amount of meat was slaughtered daily: lambs, goats, meat pigeons. But there are no refrigerators,

no bleach. It stank monstrously. In general, this often happens in the history of mankind: you look - a temple, but take a closer look - a slaughterhouse. And, in fact, the smell was suppressed by incense. But as for viruses - I do not know.

It is clear, unfortunately, what the real course taken by Russia is - the toughest option, in which most of the population is infected. The one who dies, dies, the one who survives, survives. Coronavirus mainly affects the elderly and the sick, not the young and healthy.

And, in fact, from the point of view of the Kremlin, what is the problem? Old people and patients will die out quickly - a big help to the budget. Listen, do you really think that that people who have just reset the ruble will seriously be bothered by the fact that the

elderly and the sick will die?
Accordingly, when the epidemic begins, their death will be attributed to some other cause. A doctor who writes on Facebook that it was coronavirus, will be jailed for spreading fakes.

I repeat, from the point of view of economics, this is a really effective approach. Plus there are small bonuses in the form of returns without a tender for the supply of the hospital in Kommunarka by Prigozhin’s’s company.

In fact, it could be worse. Worse, like, for example, in Uzbekistan, where they issued a wonderful decree that all non-residents should be all quarantined hospitals. You imagine an Uzbek hospital with a whole in the floor - an ideal place for the spread of coronavirus.

So this is not all. There are few hospitals, they all filled up, so Uzbekistan decided that citizens of Uzbekistan could not return home, since everyone had to go to hospital for quarantine and the hospital was full.

And the poor Uzbeks who worked in Russia and, of course, who ended up working in Russia in connection with the coronavirus, are sitting on benches, unable to either stay or go.

So in this sense, the order to isolate oneself, which Sobyanin (Mayor of Moscow) issued, is an absolutely stunning and goes against the instincts of the Russian authorities to act like Uzbekistan and put everyone at the mercy of the state and even make money on it.

In these conditions, the rescue of drowning people is the task of the drowning people themselves. And I am absolutely shocked by the way the residents of Russia, including Muscovites, reacted to this order.

Because according to the latest news, subway traffic fell by only a third. This means that people believe that if the state does not lead them in orderly rows, then they themselves do not need to do anything.

Guys, I must tell you that in this situation, an immune layer will really be formed quickly, and it depends on your personal actions, whether you find yourself at the base of this layer, that is, those from which the layer will form or will be among those who will take advantage

from the forming of this layer.