Mikhail Svetov: "QR-codes are an infrastructure for the system of social rating and repressions"

“Unfortunately, the politicization of vaccinations and the fight against the Chinese coronavirus is a problem that has embraced everyone.

But it is clear that Russia, as a country with not just an ineffective political system, but with an absent democracy, with an absent influence of civil society on the nomenclature, found itself in a much more difficult situation than other countries.

But in principle, the politicization around vaccination was very serious and remains very serious to this day, and, of course, is one of the main demotivating factors. I am sometimes scolded for not speaking out enough in support of vaccination, because I now consider it an insufficient threat, because everyone who can shout that it is necessary to be vaccinated, they do not talk about the threats of compulsory vaccination. Now this seems to me to be much more important.

And this skepticism appears precisely because of politicization. Precisely because people are not given a choice, they are not allowed to choose the vaccine they would like to be vaccinated with. From the very beginning, people were lied to, and sent - what is called in English, mixed messaging, in the media.

We remember the danger of the disease itself, and messages - whether or not it is worth wearing masks, which were in 2020. We remember how Sands wore a talisman against the Chinese coronavirus. We remember all this shiza.

Of course, we see Putin, who, on the one hand, says that he was grafted, on the other hand, we did not see how this happens, and on the third hand, he continues to keep people who come in contact with him, in quarantine, before how to meet him. 14 days, as it happened with the Olympic champions.

And, of course, all of this feeds distrust.

And here I will repeat the thesis, which I often mention in my broadcasts: people are quite rightly taught not to listen to the words of politicians, but to look at the actions of politicians, and only by paying attention to the actions of politicians shape their behavior.

And how did our politicians behave when the whole country was in lockdowns? Our politicians hung out in closed restaurants. When the vaccine was just being developed, politicians wore these amulets.

And even today we do not see an example that politicians would set massively in favor of the fact that vaccination does not pose a threat.

And this, of course, fuels the strongest mistrust, the strongest skepticism and leads to the failure of vaccination in Russia.

But I will repeat once again that this is a global problem, and in Russia it is aggravated by the fact that, in principle, everything is getting worse in our country, because, unfortunately, our political system is so bad.

In Russia, everything is acquiring comic features.

And the fact that people who today are discussing compulsory vaccination, the introduction of vaccination passports, QR codes, all this permissive procedure for going out on the street, do not take into account the political context in which this is happening, this is either stupidity or treason. I think this is treason.

... Why QR-codes are causing such resistance from libertarians and from me personally, is because it is the infrastructure for creating a social rating. Literally she.

Today you are not allowed to go to any place according to the principle of vaccination, and tomorrow this same system is quite calmly rearranged either on political, or on religious, or on any other rails, and now you can no longer get into the store, because you went to a rally two years ago because you tweeted some critical message.

All this infrastructure, which is built in order to force people to get vaccinated and to check whether they are vaccinated or not, is being rebuilt at the snap of a finger into a system of political repression.

And I spoke about this from the first day, in 2020, as soon as it all started, and I don't understand why I am one of the few voices that pay attention to this, because this is really happening.

Yes, of course, in some countries with developed democracies, where some part of freedom of speech has been preserved, where there is political competition, it will be possible to roll back.

But we know for sure from the history of the XX century that the technological transition... In the XX century there were completely justified fears that a person would be reduced to the level of cars, to the level of a nut at a Ford plant, but in most countries this did not happen, most countries are survived, and, of course, the industrial revolution allowed a huge number of people to get rich and society to become wealthier and richer. But there are countries where people have really been reduced to a nut in a factory, and they still exist in this state.

The examples set on edge of both Cuba and the Soviet Union, for 80 years a man was a cog in both North Korea and China with Deng Xiaoping's reform. All these fears were realized in these countries.

And now the next civilizational transition is taking place - then there was an industrial revolution, and now we are experiencing a digital revolution.

And it will also lead to social upheavals, especially in countries that are least prepared for this. And especially in countries where the very political competition no longer exists. And in such countries the most dreadful scenarios are realized.

Russia, of course, is at risk, just like China. Because technological tools have appeared, but there is no political culture to resist them.

Therefore, in Russia more than anywhere else it is necessary to sound the alarm, because: that's it, we have a social rating.

If, God forbid, it develops, and the authorities have enough competence to deploy such systems, then it will be impossible to reverse it for the next hundred years, as it turned out to be impossible in the Soviet Union, which nevertheless existed for a decent period of time, as it was not possible in China. as it still exists in North Korea.

You always have to prepare for the worst-case scenario. There is no need to prepare for good scenarios - if they develop, nothing will be required of us, but you cannot rely on "maybe". Because if we rely on "maybe" and do not prepare for the worst-case scenario, when this worst-case scenario develops, all that remains to be done is to throw up our hands and start marching into the Gulag. I would not like such a fate for Russia".

The entire episode with the participation of Mikhail Svetov can be viewed here.