Jan Šinágl angažovaný občan, nezávislý publicista

Czech stores that don't sell "essentials" are closed, yet there is no evidence that they pose a greater risk to health than online rivals and couriers with dozens or even thousands of employees. The CR and EU are achieving thein digital goals by violating their fundamental principles. A crisis is indeed an opportunity. - The original lie of the epidemiologists is that the coronavirus is so contagious and so deadly that anyone who is infected but asymptomatic must be locked down. This lie lives on, disproving the Czech saying that a lie has short legs and won't go far. When a person lies like an epidemiologist, the lie becomes immortal ... and societies die.

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The digital disadvantage

"A crisis is an opportunity," said PM Andrej Babiš in his New Year's address. "We made a leap in digitization in a few months that otherwise could have taken a few years." Among the big digital winners are the government, which got access to all kinds of personal data,banks that were able to close branches, and online retailers that have benefited from covid restrictions that discriminate against their brick-and-mortar competitors. Part of the EU Commission's digital strategy is to "Ensure that all companies compete in Europe on fair terms," but this has been tossed out the window in the name of curbing covid, just as the hallowed right to free movement has been. Czech stores that don't sell "essentials" are closed, yet there is no evidence that they pose a greater risk to health than online rivals and couriers with dozens or even thousands of employees. The CR and EU are achieving thein digital goals by violating their fundamental principles. A crisis is indeed an opportunit

5. 01. 2021 - EB

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To lie like an epidemiologist

In every language a person lies in a different way, at least idiomatically. In Czech, a person lies like a newspaper (lže, jako když tiskne). In English, a person lies through his teeth, or homonymously, lies like a rug. The covid crisis is an opportunity, as Andrej Babiš said. It gives us the chance to unite our most pernicious liars under a single idiom easily understood in all Western languages, at least until the covid crisis causes some of these languages to wither and die. A person who "lies like an epidemiologist" uses his or her professional degrees and position to introduce a great lie into the public debate that is then built upon to create more lies. The original lie of the epidemiologists is that the coronavirus is so contagious and so deadly that anyone who is infected but asymptomatic must be locked down. This lie lives on, disproving the Czech saying that a lie has short legs and won't go far. When a person lies like an epidemiologist, the lie becomes immortal ... and societies die.

6. 01. 2021 - EB

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