Does coronavirus affect progress?

It is said that coronavirus will change people's thinking and ideological priorities, as well as many other factors in the world. However, political scientists and politicians who deal with this issue, as a rule, do not go beyond the ideological framework to which they belong or prefer. Nationalists believe in liberalism, liberals believe in nationalism, believers believe in atheism, atheists believe in religion, and so on, and argue that it will weaken and collapse. These forecasts are not a forecast, but propaganda.

Dangerous pandemics of recent centuries have not shaken nationalism, religion, liberalism and other ideological trends, and the coronavirus will not shock them.

The photo you see was taken 102 years ago during an epidemic called Spanish flu. What a similar picture: the global tragedy that killed about 50 million people was forgotten, and the coronavirus pandemic will soon be forgotten. Until the next pandemic ...

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Everyone manipulates the subject in accordance with his will or the interests of society and the regime that he preaches. For example, the Turkish NTV Passport program describes the coronavirus pandemic as a “crisis of capitalism,” while the COVID-19 virus, which caused massive casualties, is a product of China's disgusting cuisine, the last pillar of socialism in the world.

Coronavirus has become the new leitmotif of anti-Western propaganda in Azerbaijan, Russia and Turkey. I think that such a campaign is carried out in all other countries where reigns greed for eternal power, for example, in Syria and North Korea, where we do not follow the media.

Democracy phobia. They are constantly trying to undermine democracy so as not to transfer power and return it to the people. At the same time, they understand that open propaganda against the values ​​of democracy will have the opposite effect. Therefore, they are not trying to ignore these values ​​of the Western countries in which they mainly dominate.

We come across examples of this every day.

For example, German Chancellor Angela Merkel in her speech said, "If we do not take effective measures, 60-70 percent of the population may be infected with coronavirus." Perhaps because she is the head of a democratic state, she took responsibility to warn the population about the real extent of the threat. However, in the Turkish media (for example, Beyaz TV) this statement was interpreted as "Merkel recognized Germany’s weakness."

Another example: the statement by French President Emanuel Macron that “if the European Union does not fight the coronavirus together, its existence may be called into question,” the Russian media welcomed this. “The existence of the European Union is in question,” they wrote.

Another example: in Spain, a doctor said that every doctor and nurse in the intensive care unit has more than 50 coronavirus patients. According to him, because of this, doctors are not able to provide the necessary medical care to each patient. As a result, some patients die before the doctor can give them first aid.

Euronews, a leading European media outlet, broadcasts this statement every 15 minutes - there is freedom of speech.

In our country, the official media did not broadcast such a statement; and even the doctor who revealed this or that undesirable truth in a social network was imprisoned. Just as they often arrest, bully, break, and make people apologize.

In Europe, they say that the Prime Minister is also infected with the virus, but in our country, they do not say that the head of the Housing Office is infected. They say "statehood", and hide any news. The freedom of speech and press in the West is used against itself.

Russian television channels share this information under the heading “Confession of a Spanish doctor”, describing it as a “crisis of governance and the medical system in the West.” However, it is not difficult to imagine what the Russian health care system would do if it has to accept an army of infected from more than 4000 (!) new patients EVERY DAY ...

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An interesting article published that day on the BBC noted that a plague epidemic in 14th-century Europe killed so many rural people that it “created serious problems for landowners with more survivors than rural people.” This made it possible to demand higher wages ... Since employing people was already more expensive, employers decided to invest in cost-effective technologies to replace them, thereby paving the way for industrialization. ”

As if there were no plague epidemic, there would be no industrialization. A pandemic could accelerate industrialization, but even without the plague of the 14th century, humanity would still have reached the current level of industrialization.

I think that this time the pandemic will not lead to global change. However, this will accelerate any changes that are already taking place. For example, for the first time in Azerbaijan, virtual education was introduced thanks to the coronavirus.

It is possible that a pandemic will accelerate the development of Internet services, virtual education and virtual management worldwide.