Post-Soviet strongmen prescribe vodka, hockey and folk medicine against coronavirus
For those who've looked at Trump's coronavirus response and wondered: "Could this *be* a bigger shitshow?"
Wonder no longer- because it is, in certain places...
https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/30/europe/soviet-strongmen-coronavirus-intl/index.html
Belarus has officially reported 94 cases of coronavirus -- and no deaths -- but Lukashenko's critics have cast doubt on those statistics, warning that authorities there could be downplaying the numbers as the country gears up for a presidential election later this year.
Lukashenko has made his own recommendations to combat the virus, suggesting that Belarusians should drink vodka to "poison the virus," or attend a banya...
And of course, our Alex is a Trump fan:
BigmanPigman
(51,627 posts)but is self quarentining too.
SunSeeker
(51,697 posts)Mopar151
(9,997 posts)It's called BABI YAR. The horrors in it's pages, and the monstrous dictator terror states responsible, make a mockery of the more polite tellings of the Holocaust.
Mass killings and ethnic cleansing of the "less than white" was up and running, in the Stalin-controlled territory of eastern Poland, Belarus, and environs, by the time Hitler's thugs managed to burn the Reichstag.
https://www.amazon.com/Babi-Yar-Document-Complete-Uncensored/dp/0374528179
MosheFeingold
(3,051 posts)Is getting pretty much the same advice from its leader but its tequila, amulets, and praying to Aztec gods renamed as saints.
Ive volunteered in Mexico after some earthquakes decades ago. CV19 will be a disaster there.