In the world, especially in Armenia, people are convinced that everything in politics is about “talking”- it isn’t physics for some laws to work. Whoever wants to speak will do whatever they want. The literate and the illiterate have the same right to express an opinion here (because it is a democracy). You can utter a couple of juicy curses and you are already on a horse, which seems to be the experience of Armenia. In fact, it is not so. There are also certain patterns in politics, and here, as in physics, it is desirable that the voice of specialists be heard louder than that of amateurs, although it is clear that 2.5 million people in Armenia consider themselves specialists in politics.
This is a general tendency, not only specific to Armenia. People think that if they have the right to vote, then they can also do “political analysis.” What is unique about Armenia is that not only 2.5 million political scientists live in our country, but also 2.5 million infectious disease specialists. If you suddenly make a mistake and offer to vaccinate people, dozens of people will attack you and bring forward alien and unsubstantiated theories, as well as episodes from their own experience, “I, for example…”
But that field is not an arena for Facebook-style language warfare. This is science based on statistics and probability theory that has been around for at least a year and a half and covers tens of millions of people. If you pass by a building, the probability that a brick will fall on your head is several times higher than if you change the sidewalk and pass where there is no construction. That is, it reduces the risk of injury several times. This does not mean that in the first case the brick must fall, and in the second you are 100% safe from any brick. There is just a probability of, say, 2/1 or even 10/1… I do not have clear statistics on bricks, but when it comes to reducing the number of cases of vaccination, there are clear, proven, and quite measurable statistics from the experience of all countries in the world. But this simple and indisputable truth is not available to the majority of our population. That is why we are even behind Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan in terms of vaccine percentage, and we have the third highest rate for deaths in the CIS.
Living by myths is very special for Armenians. What do I want from a people whose representatives still believe in the “stolen fuel oil” of the 1990s and the “earthing” of electricity?
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Aram Abrahamyan
