Re: Like Trump, Glorious Leader Putin Saves His Country From TrumpCOVID-19 Virus Using Propagana & Lies!
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On 12/3/20 4:29 PM, BeamMeUpScotty wrote: > Russia's coronavirus count under scrutiny as Putin government denies > hiding > > A man kisses the relics of John the Baptist in Kazan cathedral in central > St. Petersburg, Russia, on March 15, 2020. As late as Sunday, Orthodox > parishioners were lining up to kiss church icons without wiping them down, > but more stringent measures to limit the spread of the coronavirus are > coming into place Wednesday, closing the country's borders to foreigners > and limiting indoor gatherings to fewer than 50 people. (Anton > Vaganov/Reuters) > > > As country after country in Europe reported dramatic growth in COVID-19 > cases and moved to systematically shut down communities and economies, > Russia had been a striking outlier — until now. > > As late as Sunday, professional soccer games were still being played in > front of thousands of people. Orthodox parishioners were lining up to kiss > church icons without wiping them down. And on Russian state television, > pundits were full of their usual effusive praise for how the > administration of President Vladimir Putin has been handling the outbreak. > > "In Russia, things are not like they are in Europe," said Dmitry Kiselyov, > whose pro-Kremlin monologues on his show Vesti Nedeli (News of the Week) > have landed him on the sanctions list for both Canada and the European > Union. > > "Things are going along in their normal way," he said as he pushed the > Kremlin narrative that the virus has been inflicted on Russia by > foreigners but the country is successfully fighting back. > > "It's big, scrupulous work," he said, "but the results are clear." > > > Dr. Anastasia Vasileyeva, head of a trade union for Russian medical > practioners, says no one really knows how many cases of coronavirus there > are in the country. (Corinne Seminoff/CBC) > Within 48 hours, however, Russians suddenly seem less confident. > > Effective Wednesday, all of the country's vast borders will be closed to > foreigners, bringing the country into line with places such as the > European Union. Moscow has banned all outdoor events and limited indoor > gatherings to fewer than 50 people and older Russians have been told to > remain inside. > > Schools are now shut, attractions such as Lenin's tomb and the Bolshoi > Theatre are closed and the government has announced a sizable bailout > package for businesses at risk. > > Authorities say even with their early successes at holding off the virus > outside Russian territory, cases are rising and more needs to be done. > > Officially, Russia has just 114 confirmed coronavirus cases and no > confirmed deaths. > > It's a remarkably small number for a country of 149 million people that > shares land borders with 14 other countries, including a 4,200-kilometre > boundary with China, where the coronavirus outbreak started. > > > Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting with members of the > government at the Kremlin in Moscow on Wednesday. (Sputnik/Mikhail > Klimentyev/Kremlin/Reuters) > By comparison, tiny Iceland has twice the official number of cases as > Russia. > > Japan, with roughly the same population as Russia, has almost 10 times as > many. > > Even the president of Belarus, often seen as Russia's closest neighbour, > has questioned the low numbers, suggesting that Russia is "ablaze" with > coronavirus. > > Senior Russian officials, including Putin, the country's prime minister > and the mayor of Moscow, all insist the Russian figures are accurate. > > The official TASS news agency quoted Deputy Prime Minister Tatiana > Golikova as suggesting the situation was a result of "restrictive and > prohibitive measures" adopted by Russia, including an early closure of the > border with China and other restrictions on people entering Russia from > Asia. > > But several doctors and health-care workers contacted by CBC News believe > the real caseload is far higher and that Russia could be hiding hundreds > of coronavirus deaths by labelling them as something else. > > > An employee wearing a protective mask cleans and disinfects a subway train > as part of measures to prevent the spread of the coronavirus in Moscow on > Monday. (Tatyana Makeyeva/Reuters) > "I think they don't want to tell the truth," said Dr. Anastasia > Vasiliyeva, an ophthalmologist who heads the Doctor's Alliance, a recently > formed countrywide union for medical practitioners. > > "I think we have thousands of coronavirus [cases] in Russia but no one > really knows how much." > > The Russian business publication RBC reported this week that Russia's > official statistics agency, Rosstat, confirmed incidents of "community > acquired pneumonia" increased by 37 per cent in Russia from January 2019 > to January 2020. > > That translates into an increase of close to 2,000 cases. > > Some patients who contract coronavirus can develop severe pneumonia and > other respiratory problems. > > "That's why they call coronavirus, 'pneumonia,' " Vasiliyeva told CBC > News. > > One family doctor who's been in practice for more than a decade in Moscow > told CBC News their clinic has seen a number of patients recently who > likely had coronavirus, but doctors did not report them to federal health > authorities because they were concerned about the conditions inside the > quarantine sites where they would be sent. > > > Major tourist attractions in Moscow, such as Lenin's tomb, are closed. > (Corinne Seminoff/CBC) > "I have dealt with patients with mild symptoms that I am convinced have > coronavirus but I have not reported them to the hotline as I refuse to see > them be put in isolation in God knows what kind of conditions along with > other patients," said the doctor. > > CBC News has agreed not to identify this person as doing so could result > in severe recriminations by Russian authorities. > > The doctor also said many coronavirus cases go unreported because > physicians don't want to see their offices shut down and quarantined by > Russian authorities. > > "That would mean no salary and no revenues for them and their families. > This is Russia and this is the reality." > > Russian health authorities report more than 100,000 people have been > tested for the coronavirus, mostly through Russian-developed test kits. > > "Its high accuracy was confirmed in China," Kiselyov, the Kremlin TV > pundit, said on his talk show of the tests. > > > No workers at Moscow's coronavirus 'hotline' call centre were wearing > masks when CBC News visited and many were sitting within two metres of > each other. (Chris Brown/CBC) > But Vasiliyeva, with the medical union, said doctors from across the > country are calling her and saying both the testing and the results are > unreliable. > > "They don't really know if the tests work," she told CBC News, noting that > some doctors have told her they have waited days to get test results > returned but never received them. > > "They send them and they don't get the information back." > > Vasiliyeva said until recently the Moscow area had three infectious > disease hospitals to treat patients, but at the time of the coronavirus > outbreak in January, there was just one in operation. > > Health authorities are rushing to build a second facility for infectious > diseases in the city's southwest but its opening date is unclear. > > Vasileyva said she is not affiliated with any political organization and > claims to "like" Putin. However, she rents office space from his nemesis, > anti-corruption activist Alexey Navalny, who she acknowledges has been > supportive of the doctors union. > > While Navalny has not said much about the coronavirus situation in Russia, > other prominent Russians have been vocal. > > > An aerial view Monday shows a construction site where a new hospital is > being built for treating patients infected with coronavirus outside > Moscow. (Denis Voronin/Agency of city news 'Moskva'/Reuters) > The Moscow Times reports Oleg Deripaska, one of Russia's richest men, > suggested that Russians are ignoring prudent public health advice. > > In a post on his social media page, he wrote that if Russia doesn't move > quickly to prevent the virus's spread, the consequences could be "more > serious than the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991." > > Other commentators have drawn parallels between the former Soviet Union's > initial efforts to downplay and minimize the impact of the 1986 Chornobyl > disaster with the Putin administration's handling of coronavirus now. > > Putin himself, the central figure in Russian political life for more than > two decades, has been absent from much of the discussion around the > coronavirus, although on Tuesday he attempted to dispel what he called > "dangerous rumours." > > "The situation, as a whole, is under control," said Putin. > > "We managed to contain the massive — and I want to emphasize the massive — > penetration and spread of the disease in Russia." > > While Russia has taken decisive steps in the past 48 hours — such as > closing its borders to international travellers — restaurants, bars and > shopping malls all remain open, though perhaps not for long. The heavily > used Moscow Metro transit system, which moves more than 9.4 million > passengers a day, continues to function, though it is notably less busy. > > And while there has been some public messaging about the need for "social > distancing," it has been far less noticeable than in Europe or Canada. > > PM says financial help on the way for 'millions of Canadians' to get > through COVID-19 crisis > Why Italy was hit so hard and so fast by COVID-19 > > Indeed, CBC News visited Moscow's recently opened coronavirus call centre > where several hundred workers sat in close proximity to each other > answering phones and talking to supervisors. > > One worker said most people calling were not anxious or panicky and > instead wanted answers to basic questions such as what are the symptoms of > the virus. > > But Vasileyva said the call centre is indicative of many of the problems > with Russia's response to the crisis, as she believes it's only a matter > of time before the coronavirus strikes the centre itself. > > "If one person comes in there with the virus, everybody will have the > coronavirus." > > > https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/russia-coronavirus-government-1.5500248 > FAILED to convince me you really are BeamMeUpScotty. 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