*I asked a Russian friend, who is in touch with vaccine safety activists back home, to provide* *us with some information on Russia's handling of the COVID-19 crisis, and that state's policy* *on childhood vaccines.*
*This is enlightening, and tells us that we vaccine safety activists, and advocates of parents'* *rights, need to help our counterparts in Russia.* *MCM* > *As to the current situation with Covid19 in Moscow, people are ordered to > stay home, unless they are essential workers*. > > “As* previously reported by the media, the Moscow government is preparing > to ban residents from leaving the apartment without * > *special permission, in particular, issued in the form of a QR code - a > two-dimensional bar code. In order to go to the pharmacy, * > *shop, to work or take out the trash, a person will need to register on the > city website, then indicate the purpose of going out and * > *get a code-picture, which should be presented to the patrol, if necessary. > If you have a computer connected to the Internet with * > *a printer or a phone with Internet access, plus the ability to work with a > computer or smartphone, then theoretically you should * > *not have big problems with leaving your home.”* > > *As one of the popular news outlet Vesti puts it:* > > http://www.e-vesti.ru/ru/qr-kody-dlya-vyhoda-na-uliczu-gotovy-no-ostayutsya-voprosy/: > > > *“If the person who went out onto the street does not have the necessary > QR code, the police can fine him or take him home, official * > * presentations say. In addition to patrol policemen and Rosgvardeytsy, they can also use billing data from mobile operators, cameras* * in entrances, on the street and in transport, and bank transaction data to control the movement of Muscovites in quarantine. In this * * case, fines can be issued automatically."* *From another popular newspaper, Vedomosti:* > > https://www.vedomosti.ru/society/news/2020/03/31/826714-kommersant-uznal-podrobnosti-sistemi-kontrolya-karantina-v-moskve > > > *“Moscow. 20 April. INTERFAX.RU <http://INTERFAX.RU> - The hard access > regime introduced in Moscow will be extended until May 1, this will be > enough to * > *reduce the spread of coronavirus infection, believes Mayor Sergei > Sobyanin.”* > https://www.interfax.ru/moscow/705106 > > > *Lots of related information about RQ-codes can be found here:* > > https://mobile.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1378040029101405&ref=content_filter > *And also here:* > > https://mobile.facebook.com/groups/104926359582626?tsid=0.5873533656438548&source=result > > > *People cannot protest without its being approved ahead of time by the > government, and no in-person protest of the lockdown will * > *be approved. **“In order to come to a rally, meeting, procession or demonstration, you need to notify the authorities no earlier than * * 2 weeks, but **no later than 10 days - even if you speak out against these same authorities. The organizers must submit a notice, * * provide their data and contacts in it, tell what the event is planned for, for what purpose, where they are going to conduct it, how * * many—approximately—people will come, and how their safety will be ensured.”* > *Article on the possibility, in Russia, of protesting against the > government:* > *https://meduza.io/cards/mozhno-li-v-rossii-protestovat-protiv-vlasti* > <https://meduza.io/cards/mozhno-li-v-rossii-protestovat-protiv-vlasti> > > > *I have seen people using Yandex (a type of Google) to protest, by placing > their location on the map.* > > > *Nonetheless, a few physical protests have taken place, such as this one > in Vkadikavkaz:* > *https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=153k3A1bE0I&feature=youtu.be* > <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=153k3A1bE0I&feature=youtu.be> > > > *About vaccines for children: * > > *In the federal law vaccines, are not mandatory just yet, so one still has > a right to refuse them. **This federal law, including* > *compensation for recognized post-vaccination complications, is prescribed > in Art. 18, 19 and 20:* > *https://base.garant.ru/12113020/* <https://base.garant.ru/12113020/> > > *A bit more about compensation: * > *If someone has a proven post-vaccination complication, he is entitled to > a one-time cash payment of **10,000 rubles ($130).* > *If a child dies, and it can be proved to have been due to a > vaccine-related complication, the parents are entitled to a one-* > *time payment of 30,000 rubles ($400). If a person is disabled due to > vaccination, he will receive a supplement to his disability* > *allowance, of 1000 rubles per month ($13), although the amount varies, > depending on the severity. * > > *(Initially, compensation was tied to the minimum wage, and was much > higher. But two years after that **law was passed, it* > *was modified.* > > *Most of the vaccines that children receive at the expense of the budget > (both federal and local) are produced* *in Russia.* > *But foreign vaccines also are available. The total budget for vaccines now > amounts to 23 billion* *rubles, and the vaccine* > *schedule is expanding, as vaccines for chicken pox, rotavirus A, and the > human* *papillomavirus have been added; and* > *the state wants to increase the budget by another 27 billion rubles. The > main Russian manufacturers are two giant* > *companies—Rusnano and Rostec—which are **managed by the oligarchs Chubais > and Chemizov, respectively. Chubais* > *is linked to the Sci-B-Vac vaccine,* *which was the cause of a > class-action lawsuit in Israel.* > *Here are the documents for the hearings in the State Duma. They include > information about the budgetary sums noted above:* > > https://mobile.facebook.com/groups/165333080168791?view=permalink&id=2730247257010681&__tn__=%2As%2AsH-R > > *By the way, we have minimal instructions for vaccines produced in Russia, > with inadequate information on possible side* > *effects or complications. This is especially true of vaccines from the > Vector Institute:* > *http://www.vector.nsc.ru/katalog-produktsii-fbun-gnts-vb-/* > <http://www.vector.nsc.ru/katalog-produktsii-fbun-gnts-vb-/> > > *Parents can get some foreign vaccines for a fee—and they are quite > expensive. For example, the foreign * *vaccine for* > *meningitis costs from 9 to 20 thousand rubles. To put this in perspective, > the average salary* *is 40 - 50 thousand rubles* > *a month. Sometimes such vaccines are purchased by the state and can be* *offered > free of charge.* *But this is rather* > *the exception. Many parents prefer vaccines made overseas, considering > them safer than those made in Russia. * > > *There is a very active group called “The Immune Response” that I should > mention. While they don't advocate specifically* > *against vaccines, they call for more freedom of information, the right to > choose, the rights of parents generally, and for* > *increasing compensation for victims.* > > https://mobile.facebook.com/immunotvet/?tsid=0.47744740988797885&source=result > *Here is their resolution:* > > https://mobile.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2738765082860159&id=2681012255302109 > *“We constantly write to the Duma, attend hearings in the Duma, etc. In > principle, we managed to change the agenda and* > *call attention to our activities,” said one member of the group.* > > > > > > -- If you appreciate News From Underground, please consider making a donation — either a one-time gift or a monthly subscription: http://markcrispinmiller.com/support/ Thank you for your support. 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