Alexis Tsipras called on Kyriakos Mitsotakis to “change strategy” in dealing with the pandemic, in statements he made after the speech of the Prime Minister
The president of SYRIZA accused the Greek prime minister of “sermons of self-admiration” and characteristically stated that “If he can not or does not want to leave room for us where we want and can”
On the other hand, he characterized as the right decision to institutionalize the expiration of the vaccination certificate seven months after the second dose, while he also presented a series of proposals for the prevention of the pandemic.
Mr. Tsipras’ statement that the Minister of Health should be prosecuted caused a sensation, commenting that “a Minister of Health needs prestige and acceptance in order to implement measures to effectively stop this tragedy”.
The statement of Alexis Tsipras in detail
“Our country is experiencing an unprecedented tragedy and Mr. Mitsotakis is facing it with sermons.
Yesterday we exceeded 17,000 dead. Every week an entire village is lost Hospitals and health centers collapse, patients are treated on a ranch or intubated outside the ICU, surgeries are suspended. Our country is the first in deaths per million inhabitants in all of Western Europe.
For all this, the responsibility has a name. He belongs to the one who recently made the 11th sermon in a row to say that many different things are to blame, except for the one who has been managing the pandemic for two years.
Mr. Mitsotakis is responsible for the failure we are experiencing today,
Because for two years now, he has been dealing with the pandemic not with deeds, but with sermons. Because for the past two years it has not strengthened the NSS and primary care. Because even the ICUs he built are either sketchy or understaffed.
He is also responsible, because he consciously created an atmosphere of false success and relaxation. When every two months he celebrated how he defeated the pandemic And when he keeps talking about a pandemic of the unvaccinated, it is as if the vaccinated do not get sick or transmit.
And it’s entirely responsible for vaccination failure. Because he was never interested in convincing with the Petsa lists, except to create a regime. Because when we all count victims, he counts votes. And he does not dare to clash with his electorate in the Church and in the Security Forces. We had to mourn 1,137 dead in November and there should be a general outcry to announce today what we proposed and even tabled as an amendment that voted against. That is, to make the test mandatory for the entry of the unvaccinated in the churches.
Even today, however, he continues to speak complacently and to lie. For a supposedly perfect vaccination campaign while we are in the tail in Europe. That supposedly strengthened and strengthens the NSS while reducing costs and left it with 2500 fewer permanent employees than in 2019.
And unfortunately it continues on the same path of failure. The back and forth that betray panic.
I do not know what he would have announced if he had not known that I would make a statement immediately after his sermon, because just the day before yesterday he told us that we would not become Austria. And today he announced a lockdown for the unvaccinated. A constant back and forth and measures that most of the time have no counterpart.
That is why I call on him, even now, it is a matter of life and death to change strategy. Immediate and effective measures are needed, not speeches of self-admiration.
– First of all, it needs to proceed immediately with the ordering of private clinics and military hospitals.
– And to organize a pan-army for the first dose, especially in the vulnerable age groups who, if they get sick, are more at risk.
It is not enough just to encourage citizens.
We must immediately organize mobile units in cooperation with the Primary Care and the local government, for a door-to-door information and vaccination campaign in cities, in the region and in the homes of people with mobility problems.
– It is appropriate to institute the expiry of the vaccination certificate seven months after the second dose.
However, the rhetoric about the so-called pandemic of the unvaccinated must stop immediately, because this is dangerous as it creates a climate of complacency.
Those who are vaccinated get sick, fortunately most of the time lighter. But many can end up in ICU as they are today, especially after the semester.
– But at the same time I call on him to proceed immediately and with stricter measures for the vaccination in the Security Forces and the Army. It is unthinkable for an unvaccinated police officer to ask you for a vaccination certificate.
– I also call on him to institute mass free tests for both the unvaccinated and the vaccinated.
– To cancel the reductions of Health expenditures for 2022 while the NSS collapses and to proceed immediately with the recruitment of doctors and nurses.
– Cancel all mergers of school departments and immediately hire substitute teachers to dilute students per class.
– Stop the delays in the competitions and increase the number of buses in the MMM immediately, even with vehicle orders if necessary, in order to increase the routes
And to install special ventilation systems in enclosed areas such as the Metro.
– Finally, beyond the rolling hours, teleworking must return to both the public and private sectors for as long as necessary and where possible.
It is necessary in the next period, to proceed immediately with measures, which will restore the country to a logic of normalcy. It is necessary for Mr. Mitsotakis to take substantial initiatives in the near future. To hear our voice. But it is clear to everyone that none of this can be achieved, as long as the Minister of Health remains a man who a few months ago said that it is not the job of the government to persuade citizens to be vaccinated. It takes a Minister of Health prestige and acceptance to implement measures to effectively halt this tragedy.
The next period is necessary, and we can still save human lives today. If Mr. Mitsotakis can not or if he does not want, then, let him leave space for us where we want and can “.
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