N. Iliopoulos: Responsibility of the Mitsotakis government is the anti-vaccination movement

“The government has brought the situation to a standstill and its policy is now openly dangerous,” said SYRIZA-Progressive Alliance spokesman Nassos Iliopoulos, referring to the pandemic, in an interview with the radio station “Sto Kokkino 105.5” .

Mr. Iliopoulos said that “at the moment Greece is twice above the EU average in losses per million inhabitants”, commenting that “the Mitsotakis government has capitulated to this reality”. In particular, he accused her of “having no plans for the ‘here and now'”, noting that “even if tomorrow morning everyone was vaccinated, with more than 500,000 people over the age of 60 unvaccinated and 1.5 million people over of 60 who have to do the third dose, it is obvious that for the next 40 to 50 days we will continue to have dozens of dead every day “.

The SYRIZA spokesman stated that the “800 doctors waiting in the NSS lists, 800 doctors of critical specialties who have done their paperwork and could be in the system in a few days” should be immediately hired in the public health system “. In addition, he stressed that teleworking must return, as “it is the only measure that can be implemented immediately to be less in the means of transport and mass workplaces, two spaces that are hotbeds of over-transmission.” He also stressed the need “to cancel school-sponsored school mergers and to do whatever it takes to open schools with 15 students per class after Christmas.” He described as “hypocritical” the attitude of ND “to cancel its conference a few days ago for reasons of public health, at the same time that it talks about a pandemic of unvaccinated and at the same time that it merges school departments by creating classes with 28 and 29 students”.

Regarding the measures that must be taken immediately, Mr. Iliopoulos also underlined the demand for private ICUs. He commented, however, that “Kyriakos Mitsotakis denied science and abolished an entire branch of medicine, intensive care, when he essentially said that it makes no difference to be intubated either inside or outside the ICU. But Mr. Plevris also stated in an interview yesterday in the morning that if someone enters the ICU the chances are that he will not succeed “. As he noted, regarding these “the answer was given by Mr. Kapravelos, director of the ICU in Thessaloniki, saying that the patient who is intubated outside the ICU has no luck”.

The SYRIZA representative attributed “clear responsibilities” to the government for strengthening the anti-vaccination movement, recalling that “ND and Mr. Mitsotakis talked to this area and legitimized the extreme right-wing discourse and conspiracy theories since the time of the Soviet Union.” . “Mr. Mitsotakis chose to make Minister of Health a man who a month before taking office said that it is not the job of the government to convince people to be vaccinated and in the past – as a member of the LAOS – had openly supported anti-vaccination positions and had characterized the AMKA conspiracy of Jewish Freemasonry “, he added.

Regarding the elections in KINAL, Mr. Iliopoulos commented that “yesterday was a bad night for the pollsters, the measurements were finally far from reality”. He stressed that in the next elections that will be held by simple proportional representation “SYRIZA-Progressive Alliance will put the stake to end with Mitsotaki politics”. In particular, he said that “we must end this policy at work, in the economy, in the welfare state and in public health” and that “the logic that the problems will be solved by market self-regulation has failed”. “We need a strong welfare state,” he said, “only then will there be security for the majority of society.” welcome”.

SOURCE: AMPE