Covid was how we learned about the Russian approach to dealing with stupid / bad government laws and rules. Basically where the vast majority of Americans are "rule-followers", the large majority of Russians are not rule-followers, and see laws and rules as suggestions that may or may not come with a fine for noncompliance. So there were people who had to get a jab for their government jobs, but there were many, many people who found a way around it. The jab compliance numbers in Russia are an utter joke. Sadly, many people did get it, but many more knew better and used the Russian people's immune system against such things.
We definitely found out where the totalitarian figures were and weren’t. Trump and Putin were both singing from the same songbook, both with variations of “so yeah we’re awesome because we got ahead of this with vaccines and we recommend everyone take them and freedom of choice is non-negotiable.” There were unfortunately some mandates — one dear person I know got the shot because he was required to for work and his health went way downhill and hasn’t fully come back. But there wasn’t the unanimity of pressure we saw happen in the west, and as I said, Russians found creative ways to opt out.
Covid was how we learned about the Russian approach to dealing with stupid / bad government laws and rules. Basically where the vast majority of Americans are "rule-followers", the large majority of Russians are not rule-followers, and see laws and rules as suggestions that may or may not come with a fine for noncompliance. So there were people who had to get a jab for their government jobs, but there were many, many people who found a way around it. The jab compliance numbers in Russia are an utter joke. Sadly, many people did get it, but many more knew better and used the Russian people's immune system against such things.
So what you are saying is there's no mandates and no tyranny?
We definitely found out where the totalitarian figures were and weren’t. Trump and Putin were both singing from the same songbook, both with variations of “so yeah we’re awesome because we got ahead of this with vaccines and we recommend everyone take them and freedom of choice is non-negotiable.” There were unfortunately some mandates — one dear person I know got the shot because he was required to for work and his health went way downhill and hasn’t fully come back. But there wasn’t the unanimity of pressure we saw happen in the west, and as I said, Russians found creative ways to opt out.
Love it. I opted out myself. LOL