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2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

We all saw disaster films and wondered: why are these people so stupid? There is also an epidemic, is it really so difficult to just sit at home?

In just a few weeks, our usual life has changed beyond recognition due to the spread of the coronavirus. While everyone is looking for an answer to the question "how to live in this new reality?"

Patient 31

At first, the COVID-19 epidemic in South Korea developed rather slowly, until mid-February there were only 30 diagnoses. Everything was changed by the so-called 31st patient - a 61-year-old parishioner of the Church of Jesus of the Shincheonji cult from the city of Daegu.

It is not known where she contracted the infection, but in just three days, after visiting two hospitals, two church meetings, each attended by more than 500 people, and a buffet at a hotel, she infected hundreds. Of the 4400 parishioners of Shincheonji Church examined, the diagnosis was confirmed in 544, 9000 were quarantined. According to the Korea Center for Disease Prevention and Control, the 31 patients affected several thousand people.

Lev Leshchenko

In our country, such a patient 31 seems to be the singer Lev Leshchenko, who, after returning from abroad, decided not to observe the regime of self-isolation, but went to the birthday of Igor Krutoy's sister, where all the domestic elite gathered, including the wife of Putin's press secretary Tatyana Navka … But this was not enough for Lev Valerianovich: the next day he took part in Malakhov's program, where he sat on the same sofa with Ekaterina Shavrina and Angelina Vovk, who, by the way, are already well over 70.

A few days later, the singer was diagnosed with a coronavirus. The dolphin of All Russia Igor Nikolaev soon went to the hospital where Leshchenko was put with bilateral pneumonia.

At this rate, in Kommunarka, where both singers are currently undergoing treatment, it will be possible to arrange the filming of the program Song of the Year.

Church

While religious organizations are closing their churches and parishes, refusing services with the participation of parishioners, the ROC was not going to close churches and cancel services. And she called the ban in St. Petersburg on visiting churches from March 28 to April 5 unconstitutional. True, when the curators from the special services gave a hat, a couple of days later the head of the Russian Orthodox Church still urged believers to pray at home and not go to church.

Although not long after that, from March 10 to 17, the relics of John the Baptist from Jerusalem were brought to the Kazan Cathedral in St. Petersburg, and despite the coronavirus pandemic, 70 thousand believers were added to the relics during their stay in the Cathedral.

A volunteer girl was on duty near the ark with the relics, in each hand she had a napkin, as soon as a parishioner or parishioner kissed the relics, she wiped the surface. However, without changing after each napkin, and without gloves. And I didn't always have time to wipe it off.

For reference: The WHO announcement that the spread of the coronavirus has become a pandemic was on March 11, the second day of this cheerful week of kissing, and this week, however, was spent in full.

In general, it was so wild that even one of the priests resigned in protest.

The St. Petersburg Rector of the Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker explained his departure on his Instagram page. He said that the situation with the coronavirus helped him make a decision. Initially, the church refused to comply with the orders of the governor of St. Petersburg to limit visits to churches. This position seemed irresponsible to Vladislav Antsibor.

Mr pi

In Italy, a 101-year-old man has recovered from the Covid-19 coronavirus. The patient, known as "Mr. Pi", was admitted to the Rimini hospital a week before discharge after testing positive for Covid-19. The man was born in 1919 - at the height of the Spanish flu pandemic, which claimed the lives of about 600 thousand Italians.

Here is a quote from Gloria Lisi, Mayor of Rimini

"He saw everything: hunger, pain, progress, crisis and rebirth. But as soon as he stepped over 100 years of life, fate threw him another challenge, invisible, and at the same time terrible. Nevertheless, Mr. Pi did it - the family took him home last night - to show us that even for 101-year-olds, the future is not yet predetermined. " According to Lizzie, the patient was born in 1919 in the midst of another pandemic - the Spanish flu, or simply the Spanish flu. The global epidemic raged from 1918-1919 and is considered the worst pandemic in modern history. Then, due to illness, tens of millions of people died - more than as a result of the First World War. At the same time, newborns most often died from the Spanish flu, and the elderly died from COVID-19.

Therefore, Mr. Pi immediately became a hero of memes.