CHAPTER 3. THE COVID-19 VIRUS HAS SPREAD RAPIDLY AROUND THE WORLD — THREE-FOUR

"Now I understand why you're like that! Because you think you're president, and we can't have more than one president here! And you can't be so responsible for your health. You should waver in line with the party line. They say that COVID is a miracle, so we should be happy. They say it doesn't infect white people, so smear your khachiks with condensed milk. They say it's not transmitted by airborne droplets, so sneeze on each other to your heart's content. They report on the world's first vaccination — run to get your shot and fall to the bottom of the well! So you’re the anti-vaxxers they’re blaming for everything now?! — I shifted the topic of conversation from myself to them.

"Anti-vaxxers are too broad a generalization at this point. The anti-vaxxer movement is neither centralized nor coordinated. People choose not to get vaccinated for a variety of reasons, which would contradict each other if you put them all in one person's head. Some rely on amulets in their pockets, who are ignorant and uneducated. And others are waiting for reliable results from a double-blind randomized trial in the third phase, highly educated and subscribing to The Lancet magazine, he rambled on and on.

“And what about you guys? I bet you're neither one nor the other!” I hammered away with questions.

"We had a comrade here from Canada, a farmer with experience exchange, and he told us how the British woman appointed them a so-called responsible government a long time ago. For such mistakes, they get kicked out of their seats. We have a Teflon government, and the sky is the limit for them. That's why we have to govern ourselves responsibly and check which of their decisions will be beneficial and which will be harmful," he confirmed my theory that they are presidents for themselves.

“I see, isolation is beneficial, and vaccination is harmful...” I summed up thoughtfully.

"Vaccination is not that simple. If it were just a vaccine, it would be worth waiting a year and moving forward. But that's not all there is to it. Who told you that this shot contains only the vaccine? Those who never tell the truth under any circumstances? The only way to get truth from them? Through agents — planted long ago, deep inside." he continued mysteriously.

“I see, a conspiracy theory,” I said, knowing that such a verdict would inflame my lecturer.

"You're good at making diagnoses! When there really is a conspiracy, it would be wrong to explain it with any other theory. Here's something to think about. Do you know who won the Nobel Peace Prize this year? Dmitry Muratov, he's a newspaper editor. His specialty is helping people get drugs for SMA — spinal muscular atrophy. These drugs are made in the West. They're super expensive! And you know what they do? They fix the damaged gene! Just like that! When this started, there were rumors that they were working on something similar here. What if they planned to tweak the gene to create the perfect homo sovieticus — a loyal Putin supporter. And if that’s the case, what if the fight against COVID is just a cover? What if, over there, they're also editing people, but in the opposite direction, creating some kind of transliberal? Isn't that why foreign vaccines are banned? — he went into full swing, raising doubts.

The vision of a store turning into a restaurant flashed again in his heated brain. It would be logical to allow people to choose a vaccine according to indications, contraindications, and finally, reviews! Why the mutual bans? It's more like two pigs slurping human flesh from the same trough — each trying to take over the slop. He imagined them pushing each other, trying to take sole possession of the trough, loudly smacking their lips and grunting with pleasure...