It's been a long time since the Professor of Pathology - Infectious Disease, Nikos Sipsas, announced that he was stopping television appearances because - as he said - he was becoming annoyed by overexposure. Possibly, if the leaks are to be believed, and by some manipulations, governmental or collegial. The doctor at the People's Hospital, one of the 33 Committee of Infectious Diseases, has been registered in the race of «strict», that treats every opening as a trigger for new evil.
Now that everything is opening up and we are expecting a tourist wave, the professor went on air again and predicted that maybe in a year we'll have the coronavirus out of the way. So much for appreciation, you will say. We were told by Bill Gecovid-19
Copycat, «at the end of 2022 the return to normality».
The professor declares the end of the summer month. Well, he doesn't swear by the «month of August and God», but the correlation is interesting. «In August 2022, when we have 100 years since the destruction of Smyrna, then the virus will possibly be destroyed.».
If it was not affected by the anniversary climate -2,000 years since the Battle of Salamis in 2020 and 200 years since 1821 -, the parallel between the uprooting of the Asia Minor Hellenism and the end of the pandemic is perplexing.
In the destruction of Smyrna, was not an armoured and powerful navy, an allied fleet of Christians «silently watching a drama caused by its own governments»?; I don't think the professor sees in the pandemic tragedy negligent culprits, I don't think he means that some of the 10,179 could have been saved by different management. After all, as he said, it's the mutation. «In fact we have a new pandemic started by the British mutation. It hit us mercilessly.».
Then what? On the 100th anniversary of a national disaster, will we have a reversal with a health celebration, or is it a reminder that premature triumphalism is punishable?; No disaster begins as a disaster. It begins as a campaign. In History and Epidemiology. It doesn't end «until the fat lady sings.».
By Katerina Tzortzinaki
