July 11, 2020 – Croatian President Zoran Milanović spoke at the opening of Dubrovnik Summer Festival and compared COVID-19 to tooth decay.
President Zoran Milanović said yesterday, and Slobodna Dalmacija reports, that we will have to learn to live with the coronavirus, but that everyone is under a lot of stress caused by a large amount of not-easily-understandable information. He added that especially when watching American and other western TV stations, it appears to him that the whole thing is getting out of control mentally and the people will go crazy in the end, considering how much information they’re being fed. And not even those who supply the information completely understand it, let alone the anchors and the audience. He said also that this has become a race in whose study or research will get promoted first, and that it made no sense.
He added that COVID-19 is something we’ll have to learn to live with, and the sooner we’re able to accept it as a type of normalcy, the better. He proposed we consider COVID-19 “not like some big disease” (this is a direct translation of his words, ne kao neku veliku bolest), rather like tooth decay. That gets cured, Milanović added.
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