Around 200 people die from the coronavirus in Armenia every week. The main reason is clear. The percentage of vaccinated people in our country is the lowest in our region. It is indisputable that the state should make more active efforts to prevent the development of this (if we use a mild word) very concerning situation. This is the case when the common good is higher than the individual freedom. But I will write about that in the next analysis. And now I want to draw your attention to a circumstance that seems surprising at first glance: the people of Armenia do not trust the authorities in this matter.
The trust of our citizens in the government and personally in the Prime Minister is expressed exclusively in the context of the “former regime.” Here is the principle of the well-known pendulum in psychology: Pashinyan is good because the “former” were bad – a judgment that is not interpreted from the point of view of formal logic. In that “pendulum” logic, the opinion about the Prime Minister as a separate unit is not so high. We lost the war because the former servicemen and robber generals deceived “poor Nikol,” everything has become more expensive, but what does Pashinyan have to do with it? Kocharyan and Sargsyan are to blame. In other words, within the framework of that logic, Pashinyan is not a big politician, he is “good” only in comparison to his “predecessors.”
But since it is difficult to link the origin and spread of the coronavirus with the “former regime.” The authority of the Prime Minister does not work in this matter. But right here I have a great desire to ask, “Dear fellow citizens, if you trust Pashinyan so much, if what he said is almost biblical truth for you, then why do you not want to listen to him when he calls for vaccination? Not only do you ignore the statements of the Prime Minister and other officials, but on the contrary, you believe in anti-vaccination propagandists, whose arguments are often absurd.”
This situation is a reflection of the general pattern. When leaders say, “Reject this, overthrow him, curse the other,” people rejoice, rejoice, and shout “dmp-dmp-hu.” But when the same government says, for example, do not throw cigarette butts on the sidewalk, all the enthusiasm is lost and there is a deep distrust of the government in these matters. Whoever has children or grandchildren will confirm: it is very easy to give a child a hammer and say, break your toy. And to teach them how to make a tower out of cubes: it takes patience.
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Aram Abrahamyan
