Inconsistency in the decisions of the Operational Headquarters: now they have deployed the army ...

The entire history of the work of the anti-epidemic Operational Headquarters under the Ministry of Ecology is the abolition of previously adopted decisions. The public was announced that they were canceling motorway posts, due to which part of the two-hour period of permission to travel is spent on traffic jams. A day later, it turned out that the street cameras, which were assigned the mission of identifying drivers who violated the quarantine, were not loaded with software. Traffic control was again entrusted to police posts.

During the first long strict quarantine, the most stringent measures were applied to citizens aged 65 and older, although they are the most law-abiding and take care of their health. The nationwide system for providing these people with food and medicine over a phone call practically did not work. Not everyone has good neighbors and relatives. People, unable to leave the house even for two hours, fell ill with nervous disorders aggravated by physical inactivity.

In the current long-term, strict quarantine, it turned out that citizens aged 65+ were equalized in rights with others, and they could leave their homes for a short time. However, whom is to blame for the torment of these people during the first quarantine?

Practice has shown that the Tabib State Health Insurance Agency is not able to manage properly the work of the Emergency Medical Service. This mistake cost the lives of several patients with coronavirus, whom ambulance doctors refused to hospitalize or did not come to the patient. A journalist Seymur Kyazimov, who lost his father, whom the ambulance did not help, wrote about it in an open letter to Tabib.

After scandals over this issue, the ambulance system was returned to the Ministry of Health. Who is responsible for the deaths of people who are victims of mediocre government?

After numerous complaints from citizens and companies that were denied permission to leave their homes for work during this period of strict quarantine, the Ministry of Economy again made changes to the icaze-gov.az portal, again activating their permission to leave home. Entrepreneur Sabina Guliyeva writes on the price of “error” on a social network. She asked the Ministry of Economy:  what were they thinking about when they revoked the permission for free movement, and therefore for work?

“The beautiful, good businesses of my friends are rolling around me. Owners of cafes bought hundreds of board games to develop the intelligence of our youth and survived the quarantine by renting them out. A national souvenir brand that produces beautiful authentic things for the PR of our traditions, which all this time could stand only due to online sales. The book network, also survived in quarantine only thank to online sales, but now you have prohibited the right of couriers to travel. Seventy people work in this network, and the Ministry of Economy does not allow firing them. How to pay them? People are already on the verge. Every day they ask me to help me find a job, but there is no job. It means that  we must sell l everything, close the business and live on your 190 manat. If you give, of course ... "

Inconsistency of the Ministry of Economy, which is entrusted with the management of pandemic measures, led to disastrous consequences. Some people, seeing how the authorities say one thing and do the other, do not believe in a pandemic and come up with their own conspiracy theories. Most importantly - they do not believe in the advisability of wearing masks on their faces. This leads to new diseases. While bans are being lifted in Georgia, Russia and other countries, Azerbaijan is increasingly closing its people in their homes. This leads to a catastrophic impoverishment of the population. The journalist Ramella Ibrahimkhalilova characterized the state of the population as below average:

- They more and more tighten the quarantine regime. The treasury is replenished due to high fines. People have been unemployed for months and salaries have been reduced. The population, with the exception of 20-30 percent, hardly makes ends meet. Production and industry are almost at zero. Roughly speaking, only oil products and tomatoes are able to supply international markets. Manat hardly holds its position. Officials plundered the budget, squandered, appropriated. If you shake any senior and his entourage, gold will sprinkle with them. Drug prices in pharmacies have risen. In the summer, people cannot afford to buy some fruit to give children and make jam. A kilogram of peaches and cherries costs 5-8 manats. Many families almost completely excluded meat. No, they are not vegans; they are beggars. Medicine is zero, education is zero. The people became impoverished both financially and spiritually. Why did not the state strengthen the economy when it got petrodollars? Did you really think that this would go on forever? After all, experts have talked about this many times, warned ..., - writes R. Ibrahimkhalilova.

The Operational Headquarters continues to make new frightening decisions. On March 30, service members of the internal troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Azerbaijan were involved in patrolling the cities along with police officers. Joint patrolling is effective; the population obeys the instructions of the military. However, since July 3, army units were taken to the streets and roads, whose constitutional task is to protect the country from an external enemy. "In accordance with the decision of the Operational Headquarters under the Cabinet of Ministers, some units of the Azerbaijani army are involved in the patrol service, organized to assist the Ministry of Internal Affairs in monitoring compliance with the special quarantine regime," the report said.

There are patrol with chevrons, indicators of Special Forces, in the shops. People are agitated: was there a riot in the country? Why is the army in the streets, will this lead to new tension in an already tired society? Why to oppose the people and the army?

Experts see inconsistency in the work of the Operational Headquarters. They explain what is happening by the reluctance of the authorities to consult, to involve public organizations, said the civil activist Rena Safaralieva. She writes:

“There is a legislative base, the Law on Public Participation, to attract civil society to the national fight against the pandemic. This law obliges the Milli Majlis to submit socially significant bills for discussion of the population on its website. According to this law, there should be a public council with all executive bodies. “Why is not civil society participating in the decisions that Tabib alone puts forward?” asks the civil activist.