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Good summary. I was a bit surprised that flu vaccination rates are higher in the East because their Covid vaccination rate is much lower - but maybe that's because they basically semiconsciously still trust their good old big brother Russia.
Good summary. I was a bit surprised that flu vaccination rates are higher in the East because their Covid vaccination rate is much lower - but maybe that's because they basically semiconsciously still trust their good old big brother Russia.
But it leaves out a few important points. The cultural differences (like the role of civil society, the relationship between citizens and state, etc but also the absence of the '68 movement and its sociopolitical liberalisation) might be hard to do in just a few minutes, but when he mentions net migration and the population in the East being older (and containing fewer foreign migrants) than the population in the West he skips over the part where that migration from East to West concerns women more than men. That means that the East is literally populated by old white men. It's especially educated young women moving to the West and less educated men being left behind. In both East and West women tend to be more mobile and flock to the cities and wealthier regions while men tend to be more stationary, even when their old hometown/village becomes less and less attractive.
However, from what I have been reading the differences between East and West slowly diminish. The main division these days is between rural and urban (where roughly urban takes up the role of the old West and rural that of the East).
Never let an opportunity, disaster, catastrophe, or exploitation go to waste, a fear or hope ignored is an opportunity for attempted narrative control lost...and in the big international poker game where everyone is cheating...waste not. Everything is potential capitol...especially if you can manufacture an angle that offers both hope and fear in equal measures. Distractions and disasters; delicious things that almost everyone eagerly devours no matter how much they complain about the taste and smell of death.Well, towards Russian worldview there is no fundamental controversy in being vaccinated. However COVID proved to be a good political tool to rise hell in developed countries. Plus the vaccines were made in the west, what is a no for some people. This is why Slovakia imported some of the Russian vaccines, since some older people didn't want a western one.
However regarding women I will just have to trust you. However this amount of difference between genders around the country is both absurd and unhealthy.
Never let an opportunity, disaster, catastrophe, or exploitation go to waste, a fear or hope ignored is an opportunity for attempted narrative control lost...and in the big international poker game where everyone is cheating...waste not. Everything is potential capitol...especially if you can manufacture an angle that offers both hope and fear in equal measures. Distractions and disasters; delicious things that almost everyone eagerly devours no matter how much they complain about the taste and smell of death.![]()