Poland: Revolution in Times of the Pandemic
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Poland: Revolution in Times of the Pandemic
Agata Czarnacka
Poland is a largely Catholic country, which is transforming into a secular society, based on human rights and gender equality. The general obedience and indifference to even the most outrageous actions of the government has now been replaced by a more conscious civil participation. A society that has lay passive under a neoliberal spell is now taking a giant step toward a more democratic state.
Poland stands on the verge of a humanitarian catastrophe. Hospitals are overflowing and in many places doctors have started triage as ventilators become scarce. Non-Covid patients need to wait for treatment, leading to October’s general death rate being the highest since World War... Two. Poland now has the 15th largest number of infections in the world, over 750,000 cases. However, it still remains on 23rd place with regards the number of deaths – almost 11,000 (19 November), due to the effectiveness of the spring lockdown. However, this lockdown was brought to an abrupt end before the president elections in July and the government has been unwilling to shut down the economy again, even as the infection numbers are soaring.
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