The president of SYRIZA, Alexis Tsipras, attributes responsibilities to the government and personally to the Prime Minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, for the negative development on the front of the pandemic and proposes: which we will all accept, without thinking about the political cost. “
In a lengthy post on social media, Mr. Tsipras looks back at the negative developments of the last year and accuses the government of abandoning the effort while attributing to it that “it has priority to caress his ears, mostly of extreme right-wing beliefs, anti-vaccination audience “.
Starting from last year at such a time, Mr. Tsipras states: “A year ago, just after the celebration of October 28, it signaled an alarm in the country for the rapid spread of the coronavirus. The government was forced to take emergency measures even belatedly, pretending to be surprised, although the Minister of Development admitted in a television interview that before the three-day celebration, scientists were warning about Thessaloniki. But the government decided not to take any action because they did not want to spoil the festive atmosphere of the day. Much later, Mr. Mitsotakis admitted that he was wrong. The day after Mr. Mitsotakis’s mistake, on October 29 last year, 1,211 new cases were recorded, 12 deaths, while in the country’s hospitals we had 114 intubated fellow citizens “.
In the same work spectators
A year later, the president of SYRIZA continues, “as if not a single day had passed, we saw in Thessaloniki the exact same project. With the same protagonists. Only this year, the next day of our national anniversary, the sizes are incomparably worse. Yesterday, 3,643 new cases were recorded, 55 deaths, while we have 392 intubated fellow citizens. While Thessaloniki, the city of repeated government mistakes, recorded a negative lead with 661 cases against 599 of at least three times the population of Attica. The inaction and repetition of the same mistakes by the Mitsotakis government is not news. It is also known that he has thrown in a white towel. He fired a minister who had previously pioneered the challenge of science and vaccines and more recently said it was not the government’s job to persuade citizens to get vaccinated. The message is clear and the priority to caress his ears, mostly far-right beliefs, anti-vaccination audience, even clearer. He later even declared the end of the pandemic. With decisions taken without the approval of any committee of scientists. With vaccination coverage that has long stuck around 60%, while other countries have exceeded 80%, and with steady, for months, performance in losses that rank us among the worst in Europe, the Mitsotakis government has chosen, simply to do not bother. How did the Minister of Development say that again? “Those who were not vaccinated should not be saved.”
Mr. Mitsotakis and the government are not involved
Generally, Mr. Tsipras states: “But the problem, as we know well, does not only concern the unvaccinated. Already in the ICU a 14% of the intubated are fully vaccinated our fellow citizens. And we do not even know what the corresponding percentage of vaccinated people are treated in COVID clinics. While once again turning all the hospitals in the country into COVID hospitals is expected to burden thousands of patients with other diseases and further increase the excessive mortality, obviously both vaccinated and unvaccinated. So things are evolving once again in a painful way.
This development concerns us all and we must do something. Mr. Mitsotakis and his government have decided not to bother. Do not strengthen the NSS because it is not in their program, and let it be again on the verge of collapse from understaffing. Not to care that the vaccine got stuck because they do not want to put up with their anti-vaccine voters, nor to persuade those who still have reservations with targeted campaigns. “Do not promote drug programs so as not to admit their inadequacy to bring them earlier.”
Mr. Tsipras asks everyone, “parties, scientists, citizens, not to compromise with the idea that we will get used to the loss of life” and adds:
“Let us not compromise with the idea that this winter, too, we will unjustly lose many thousands of our fellow citizens. Do not compromise with the idea that it is not possible to change the course of things. Let us not accept that it is not possible to vaccinate more, to protect more. The state of emergency requires emergency measures. The government, however, refuses to take political responsibility. Last year he rejected my proposal for a minister of general acceptance. Even for a meeting of political leaders. He still refuses to admit the tragic course of the country. But now is not the time for political competition but the time for responsibility. Let us at least agree on this: That we must do as much as we can to avoid a new million deaths in the coming months. “
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