Covid masks are a type of condom
Covid-19 has come as if summoned to make it more convenient for the Latvian authorities not only to ratify but to start implementing the Istanbul Convention immediately.
The management of Covid-19, implemented by the government of Krišjānis Kariņš, ensures such a reduction in the birth rate, as if the Istanbul Convention meant for forcing homosexual relations on the majority of the population was already in force in Latvia. Unfortunately, it will not be the case that Latvia is allowed to pay off taking part in the Istanbul Convention with Covid-19. On the contrary, Covid-19 is a test and training for the implementation of the convention not only in documents but in people's lives. Most European Union member states have already concluded all legal procedures for making the convention the law above all other laws, but there have been no transformations that would significantly differentiate these countries from Latvia, where ratification of the convention has yet to take place. Why must it happen if ratification of the convention has not changed much in the countries where it has been ratified? Because the implementation of the convention is comparable to the socialist revolution. In the end, the truth turned out to be with those who warned from the outset that the revolution would not pay off and that it was even dangerous to start if it could not be won at once in the world. Realpolitik politicians still used the ideas of socialism to seize power wherever they could, even if they could not hold it. The lesson from such an example is to make one government and one order around the world the goal. If this cannot be achieved, then George Orwell's (1903-1950) prediction in 1984 of dividing the world into three will need to be fulfilled.
The new order is created by disorder
Covid-19 serves as an indicator of the boundaries of macro-regions, even if at first glance it seems that people on both sides of the border live quite similarly.
The Istanbul Convention is for the part of the world where people are able to believe (pretend) that warning tapes around glove, sock, etc. shelves will stop not only the sale of these goods, but also the spread of viruses; that the pieces of fabric around people's faces are still masks, although they are not replaced after a few hours of wearing with special hand and facial cleansing procedures, which - neither masks nor procedures - can be afforded, either financially or technically, by 99% of those who are forced to hold foci of viruses and bacteria on their faces.
If people agree with all this and are able to enjoy both pleasure and material benefits from imposing such acts on others, then they deserve nothing more than the Istanbul Convention.
The first mention of the Istanbul Convention in the LETA archive is dated March 5, 2014. It retells the publication of the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights that "Latvia has one of the highest rates of violence against women in the EU". It also notes that "the Member States should fully ratify the Istanbul Conventions on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence".
The explanation in the title of the Convention should also be presented here in order to avoid curious misunderstandings with the completely different Istanbul Convention on the recognition of the validity of documents issued in other states. The Republic of Latvia joined this procedure by the decision of the Saeima on May 20, 1999. It is also worth remembering that, with regard to violence against women, Istanbul is only a trademark for the Council of Europe Convention and that the Council of Europe is by no means the same as the European Union.
Former Prime Minister Māris Kučinskis has earned a place in the history of Latvia with the statement of May 6, 2016 that “the Istanbul Convention is to be supported”. His government drafted the statement as a collective decision and gave Minister of Welfare Jānis Reirs the right to go down in history with his signature under the convention on 18 May. The Saeima has not approved Latvia's accession to the convention, but it will certainly do so, at least in order to satisfy the demands of the billion-euro donors, that were borrowed due to Covid-19. The role of Covid-19 is much more important so that the Istanbul Convention is not only ratified, but also fulfilled in Latvia. This role is to build an authority that will ensure compliance with the requirements of the Istanbul Convention.
The field of activity required for the new power is created by the complete disorganization of the previous everyday life. In Latvia, for example, hairdressing services are prohibited, which, unlike socks, are not theoretically possible to receive via the Internet. Thus, people have to give up a habit that has been practiced and cultivated for a much longer period of time than the life expectancy of those currently living. In the territory of present-day Latvia, a couple of hundred years have passed since the upper strata of society began to move from wig masters to hairdressers in the current sense of the word. Thus, a group of professionals was formed, the use of whose services in an ever-widening circle served not only as a sign but also as a way of bridging the gap between the minority in society. For centuries, such change has been called progress and worshiped as progress, but now we are back in time to what it was thousands of years ago. Only high-up gentlemen may appear with professionally trimmed hair and high-up ladies - in addition, with professionally filed nails, without risking problems for themselves and the people who have served them. For these gentlemen and ladies, their hair is not frizzy, but if it is frizzy, then at least they have stopped growing on their own as soon as the government forbade hair cutting. At least in this manner Privātā Dzīve retells the words of the author of these prohibitions K. Kariņš that "in order for the hair to look proper, the Prime Minister borrows hair gel from his son"; his minister Jānis Vitenbergs reported on a TV show that "the minister will make do with his wife's hair gel".
In police "there is clear progress"
The inability of the lower human species to adapt to Covid-19 has been studied by the newspaper Kurzemes Vārds, the materials of which are available electronically on the portal liepajniekiem.lv: "Several hairdressers did not hide that they want to work and need to earn money, but they are afraid of doing it at their workplace because they are afraid of fines. For example, Ilze (name changed) said that customers are desperately calling, asking if they could meet, just to cut their hair. However, she refuses everyone, because "you never know what people really intend... What if the moment a person is sitting in a chair, arrives the police that the client has called beforehand?"
The police are really working at maximum capacity to catch practicing hairdressers and other equally dangerous criminals. The publicly known sections of the now very long list of police achievements include the message in the LETA archives on 16 November last year that "the police have fined a man 25 euros for bringing his child to kindergarten, ignoring the self-isolation requirement placed upon him".
By catching a father for taking his child to kindergarten, the Latvian State Police has fully rehabilitated itself for failing to solve at least some of the crimes previously referred to as putting the police honor at stake. It was dreamed how nice it would be to catch the murderers of Mārtiņš Bunkus, who was shot in front of the doors of the State Police and the Ministry of the Interior on 30 May 2018. In that case, there would be no reason to say that the murder was committed in such a way and place that there was control and reassurance that police officers would huddle under their desks during the shooting and crawl out of them and the police building only when it was certain that the murderer is long gone, when the car used in the murder was burning in flames and black smoke and everything else has been done so that no police officer accidentally reveals anything by accident. The police had almost two years to catch the killers before all the police forces had to be transferred to catch the parents who take their children to kindergarten.
In the third year after the shooting of M. Bunkus, on September 20 last year, Pāvels Rebenoks was beaten to death with boards. There are reasons why these two murders, according to external signs, were saved in the public consciousness as evidence of the organized crime in Latvia. In a gentle form, i.e. in a form acceptable to the officials, it was acknowledged by the Minister of Justice Jānis Bordāns on the day of the murder, saying that "the murder of lawyer Pāvels Rebenoks is a signal to the state of the need to pay due attention to public safety". In an interview coinciding with the turn of the year on January 7, Armands Ruks, Chief of the Latvian State Police, was asked about the investigation of these two murders, to which he replied that "there is clear progress". Previously, the same was repeatedly said by A. Ruks' predecessor in the position of the Chief of Police in connection with the same M. Bunkus, and his descendants will be able to repeat exactly the same thing even after 10 years if someone asks them again. Progress is endless, but the memory of people, including collective human memory, is short. Great efforts should now be made to remember the older crimes that once shook Latvia and whose investigations have been progressing unsuccessfully for decades and decades.
It is not a question of whether or not something else will happen apart from the "progress" in the investigation of the two specific murders, but of preparing the existing repressive apparatus for repression to which most of its current staff are not immediately agreeing, but must be trained step by step. A chrestomathic example of such transformations is provided by the evidence of the Nazi regime in Germany. One of the preconditions for its creation was anti-Semitic slogans, through which the Nazi party gained representation in parliament, which in 1933 led to the right to form a government. In the section on anti-Semitism, the government kept its pre-election promises from the first day of its existence, but it was not until 1942, i.e. nine years later, that the decision to completely exterminate the Jews was reached. Until then, Nazi leaders were concerned that the order to exterminate the Jews would run into open resistance, or at least with such negligent execution, as to jeopardize the stability of the regime. The order was issued only when the eradication was already taking place. In that case, the order was correctly understood and carried out, although in the documents the words about the extermination or killing of the Jews were replaced by euphemisms of their displacement and solving the Jewish question.
Hanging noodles and masks on ears
Historical analogies stimulate fantasy but do not give a clear and reliable answer, how in 9-10 years the repressive apparatus will operate in the territory of Latvia, the release of which from the remnants of common sense and conscience began with the task of catching and punishing parents for taking a child to kindergarten. The set of tasks given to the police also includes punishing a farmer for violating the requirement of self-isolation by plowing the land on a tractor with no one around him within a radius of several kilometers (Neatkarīgā's known case near Aknīste is certainly just one of many), punishing hairdressers cutting hair and punishing "four people for going to work". This latest news from LETA on January 18 will certainly encourage hairdressers with the fact that they are not the only ones who have already been deprived of the opportunities to work, i.e. survive, by the Latvian state.
The administrative offense process for going to work requires a more detailed explanation because it is really bad to throw around phrases out of context. Namely, that "four people from different households went to work in one car, but these people did not have nose and mouth covers". From the point of view of legality, the actions of Latvian police officers were exactly the same as those of police officers and other officials or simply persons who had to take part in the extermination of Jews during Nazism. Yes, this was in accordance with the laws and orders, but there were also people during the Nazi era who tried not to carry out such orders, at least because they understood that they did not correspond to the purpose of building the millennial Reich. In the same way, people should understand that covering the mouth and nose at best does not affect, but at worst it contributes to the spread of disease. The spread of viruses can be prevented by a mask, but a mask is not just anything that is hung on the ears! Covid-19 fulfills the age-old Latvian saying on hanging noodles on your ears. In terms of viruses, noodles are no worse protection than pieces of fabric that do not become masks because they are hooked behind the ears. In contrast, a real mask becomes the same as any piece of cloth or noodles as soon as it is touched and is not regularly replaced by a special procedure with hand disinfection, room ventilation, and the isolation of the new and old mask. The question is, how big or not-so-big are the salaries of people who drove to work four in one car, rather than each in their own car? It is unlikely that work would pay off if part of what was earned would have to be spent on real masks and procedures that protect masks from becoming pieces of cloth, noodles, and other props in this theater, where some have to act out asking meaningless demands, others - fulfilling them.
The Istanbul Convention will probably not be the only one that requires police officers to be the first trained to punish parents for taking their child to kindergarten or adults for the fact that "a man born in 1955 invited a man born in 1970 to his apartment in Tukums", as LETA reported on January 14. The wording quoted word for word on the punishment of men urges one to think of sexual fantasies and misleads about the return of the Soviet era to Latvia. On the contrary, the Istanbul Convention prohibits relations between men and women, but in particular, the change of requirements will be a trifle as soon as a power apparatus is in place that is ready to meet any requirements. What is happening on behalf of Covid-19 signals that it is the last moment to know at least the main theses of the Istanbul Convention, which Neatkarīgā will help you with.