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Money can no more buy safety.
On April 17, Russia recorded 32,008 coronavirus cases, including a record 4,070 in the last 24 hours, as President Vladimir Putin warned of “very high” risks, particularly in some regions of the county.
“The risks surrounding the epidemic’s spread are still very high, not just in Moscow but in many other Russian regions,” Putin said during a televised video-conference with regional governors.
According to the president, the regions fail to adopt all the funds allocated by the government in the framework of the special programs to support the medical infrastructure, citizens and businesses amid the COVID-19 crisis.
In late March, the federal government allocated 33.4 billion rubles to increase the number of places in hospitals as part of the fight against coronavirus. Also in early April, the Cabinet of Ministers distributed 5.1 billion rubles among regions for payments to health workers. Later for the same purpose, the authorities sent another 45.6 billion rubles. On April 15, Putin proposed transferring additional assistance of 200 billion rubles to the regions.
In particular, Vladimir Oblast (Region) governor Vladimir Sipyagin said his region of 1.36 million only has 71 ventilators and half the needed resuscitation experts. The region also lacks personal protective equipment for doctors, and there are difficulties with the purchase of suits, glasses, respirators and medical equipment, Sipyagin added. According to him, the hydroxychlorin, which the authorities allowed to use in COVID-19 cases, Vladimir Oblast receives only 50 people.
Putin responded that governors’ commenting on the situation that they “are sitting there in order to overcome challenges”.
At the same time, the situation in Russia’s regions demonstrates that in the conditions of the global crisis the allocating of large sums of money is not enough to settle appearing difficulties and crisis tendencies. The important role is being played by the political will of the federal government as well as the provided administrative and organizational support in the task of using the provided amounts.
Earlier, the similar problem appeared in the United States, where different states were openly competing for medical equipment and other key features needed to contain the COVID-19 outbreak.
The New York governor, Andrew Cuomo, spoke out against the current bidding wars over ventilators, as each of the 50 US states and the Federal Emergency Management Agency were purchasing essential equipment separately:
The United States federal government allocates even larger sums than the Russian one to contain the COVID-19 outbreak and the economic consequences of the lockdown. However, this also appears to be not enough. The unemployment rate in the US reached the new peak with over 22 million U.S. citizens lost their jobs in the last four weeks.
Additional factors that contribute to the current situation is the decision of many countries to de-facto close their borders and the regionalization of the global economy. This leads to the creation of separate economic clusters, the slowing down of global trade and the destruction (at least changes in) of the existing economic relations.
If one takes into account the fact that the mechanisms of international control mostly do not work in the current situation, he will easily find out that the outflow of investments, the instability of financial markets and currencies also contribute to the inability of the governments to react properly to the challenges appearing in the crisis times.
The global financial system is crumbling. In the conditions of the global crisis, countries that relied on the ‘post-industrial’ (or even ‘non-industrial’) concept of the economy (relying on the selling of financial, informational, tourism and other services, as well as directly selling natural resources) appear to be less stable than their counterparts that kept the industrial potential.
The dominance on the financial market is no more the only and key resource allowing to keep the global leadership. The world has changed.
The virus has already been proven to be a mild influenza by danish scientists. Putin needs to get on the ball and stop being a globalist.
IMO, the military ought to take back full control of the RF. Clean out said globalists (not sure where Putin actually stands on what you claim), 5th column, what have you, central bank, etc.
If the military generals are socialist then I agree fully
I agree however I believe that Putin Is part of the 5th column and his job is to make Russia just strong enough so Russians feel secure but without doing anything tangible to stop the globalists.
In Australia, our government just legislated a scheme to help the jobless. It’s called the ‘jobkeeper allowance.” So basically the government pays businesses $1500 every 2 weeks for every employee that qualifies( casual,part time, employed for more than 12 months with the same employer and be of the correct defined residential status ie Australian citizen, permanent resident, certain Visa types) to keep the worker on the company’s books. So the company pays this 1500 to every employee that qualifies. This way the worker stays with the company AAAAAAND the government doesn’t have to report this person as ‘unemployed’. which in turn makes the unemployment figure look low. Aaaaahhhh they are a smart bunch aren’t they?
Smarter yet when they are pushing out global hegemony,and now more than ever the australian dollar can by more weighted substance as opposed to fake,phoney and false,mearly overhyped speculated economies whoms true assets are only a fraction factual,worse yet their incument and utterly useless non performing in the real world economys for example us-ponzi$
good, the worship of money is holding back and dividing and enslaving humanity
I cant imagine the sham of fiat currency continuing past 2100; maybe not even 2030.
Currency needs to be backed by something of actual worth rather than some vague abstraction. A possible substitution would be energy credits…
the next currency cashless crypto
Gold is real, crypto is the illusion.