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   Alexander Koryagin to Anton Shepelev   
   Misinterpretation... 1.   
   26 Apr 20 16:07:40   
   
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   Hi, Anton Shepelev! - > Alexander Koryagin   
   I read your message from 24.04.2020 02:31   
      
    ak>>>> And also is clear that if you keep quarantine and the number of   
    ak>>>> positively tested people has been rocketing after the virus   
    ak>>>> incubation period passed, it means that the virus is already   
    ak>>>> widespread and the quarantine has no effect.   
      
    AS>>> How do you know that? In my opinion, without the quarrantine and   
    AS>>> self-isolation the figures whould have been even worse.   
      
    ak>> The idea is this -- let them suppose we have at the start 10000   
    ak>> infected people hidden in Moscow. The incubation period of the   
    ak>> covid19 is 2 weeks. If we put the city on quarantine we expect   
    ak>> that in 2 weeks sick people will either be well or they end up in   
    ak>> hospital.   
      
    AS> I fear you are misusing terms again. Nobody put Moscow on   
    AS> quarantine.   
      
      
   What is quarantine according to you?   
      
    ak>> But after the quarantine they have 4-5 thousand infected people   
    ak>> per 60 thousand tests every day. It means the epidemic cannot be   
    ak>> controlled by the quarantine.   
      
    AS> Again, no global quarantine has been put in effect in Moscow. Your   
    AS> conclusion that it does not work from the statistics is too   
    AS> simplistic. I asked:   
      
    AS>>> How do you know that? In my opinion, without the quarrantine and   
    AS>>> self-isolation the figures whould have been even worse.   
      
    AS> What is your answer?   
      
   There is a big doubt about it. The average death toll can be higher but   
   it is important how to count deaths. There are millions of people who   
   die every year from variety of illnesses. If a person with flu dies from   
   diabetes or oncology, cardiovascular disease etc -- only crazy people   
   can put such deaths on flu's account.   
      
   Another matter with covid - now WHO tells us that if a person dies and   
   he/she has a covid virus - it should be treated as a death from covid.   
      
   That's why many countries have so different statistics. Now Russia also   
   began count it in such a way, and death toll in Russia began growing   
   quickly. It is a dirty trick.   
      
   I have already explained to you the quarantine idea. It can be tried.   
   But if after this measure covid tests continue to show mass infection --   
   such quarantine should be lifted because it is useless and cripples   
   economy. It means that huge masses of the police, National Guard troops,   
   Government structures, workers of important plants, shops who keep   
   working, and usual people who shopping -- are, all together, a perfect   
   engine to spread covid19.   
      
   Another factor is that there are huge masses of infected/recovered   
   people who don't know that they were infected/ill with covid19, so they   
   are out of statistics. Vast majority of them is without symptoms or   
   almost without them. Nobody tested them. These people are the main   
   engine of the infection. But we know that if 70% of the population catch   
   the illness and recover the epidemic stops.   
      
   So we should isolate old or sick people and let other people live a   
   normal life. In this case the average year death toll will be as a   
   normal death toll from flu/pneumonia.   
      
   The excessive deaths in Italy and the US are also because of   
   unpreparedness and lack of knowledge how to defend themselves from the   
   virus. But now the safe measures for old and sick people can be   
   implemented adequately.   
      
      
    ak>> They have created panic, psychosis [...]   
      
    AS> Again, I live in the Moscow region and see no sings of a panic or   
    AS> psychosis. On the contrary -- people are calm and too careless, too   
    AS> well-at-ease.   
      
   Panic was created not for people -- it is a cover, a justification for   
   freedom to be giving away.   
      
      
    ak>> Now KGB is creating a system to control every sneeze and test it.   
      
    AS> KGB? I am sure it was the government in open cooperation with the   
    AS> medical institutions.   
      
   There are medical specialists who think in other way, but they are not   
   allowed on state TV.   
      
    ak>> Nowdays people are arrested during meetings for democracy, then   
    ak>> they will be arrested right after leaving their flats.   
      
    AS> I once saw a meeting summouned by one Navalnyj. He had thosands of   
    AS> befuddled teenages chant in rythm: "Putin is a thief! Putin is a   
    AS> thief!". That is not was not a constructive meeting but a low and   
    AS> amoral mass manipulation. Such meetings should not be allowed at   
    AS> all. So it all depends on what people say and do at the meeting,   
    AS> and!?! democracy' is a hackneyed, inflated, and abused word.   
      
   Democracy in Russia was shot and killed from tanks in 1993. The   
   impotent, pocket state Duma was created, all free thinking media were   
   closed. People again started to eat soup with bast shoes and constantly   
   elect their main shoemaker. Now nobody knows how to remove this   
   shoemaker from power. No wonder many young people are crazy about the   
   situation.   
      
    ak>> They want to be able to control every person using millions of   
    ak>> cameras and other spying tricks.   
      
    AS> What kind of control do you mean? Survelliance cameras are indeed   
    AS> widely used and sometimes abused -- all over the world.   
      
    ak>> For instance, they enforce people to install spy apps in their   
    ak>> smartphones.   
      
    AS> Say what? A Russian citizen is not obliged to own even a cell   
    AS> phone! I have a cell phone, but no smartphone. I haven't heard that   
    AS> anybody was obliged to intall a spying program on their smartphone,   
    AS> althoug such programs are preinstalled in plenty on Google and   
    AS> Apple smarphones.   
      
   This app gives people a pass to go out. You cannot even ride your own   
   car without it. But read the comments in Google Play.   
      
      
    AS> Not at all. Nobody is going to hire a commision of independent   
    AS> experts to estimate the proximity of other people througout the   
    AS> course of every careless person's walk. The requirement is safe and   
    AS> simple: you may leave your home only if you a have a need to. If   
    AS> you dislike it, propose your own, and it better be clear,   
    AS> unambiguous, and verifiable. Yes, it must be verifieable, or it is   
    AS> fluff.   
      
   Under the constitution people can be ordered such things only after   
   Emergency status has been introduced in the country. So all the orders   
   which we hear now are completely lawlessness, and KGB and Putin do what   
   occur to them.   
      
      
      
    AS> Some do it less, some more carefully, and some not at all. Self-   
    AS> isolation can never be perfect, but it decreases social interation,   
    AS> slows down the propagation of the virus, and relieves the strain on   
    AS> the medical system, letting them save more lives by keeping the   
    AS> load within their capacity.   
      
   I have heard enough lie from the state TV. The vast majority of people   
   who put into infectious diseases hospitals have mild or no symptoms of   
   covid.   
      
      
   Bye, Anton!   
   Alexander Koryagin   
   english_tutor 2020   
      
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