STA, 8 November 2021 - Commenting on the latest measures taken by the government to contain the Covid outbreak, the newspaper Večer finds the government no longer has any strategy but has opted for natural immunisation to run its course.
Noting that contrary to initial announcements, PM Janez Janša and fellow coalition leaders failed to appear at the press conference to present the measures on Friday, the paper says that economic interests prevailed over saving lives.
"A renewed declaration of epidemic and lockdown would activate hazard bonuses and demands for new aid packages. Despite the June ruling of the Constitutional Court, the communicable diseases act has still not been changed and remains unconstitutional," writes the paper, wondering what that means for new measures.
"The Janša government has opted for natural immunisation. Immunologist Ihan has even described it as reckless [...] There has not been the will or the skill for anything more. This is being emphasized by the fact that neither the PM nor Tonin or Počivalšek addressed the people on Friday. Hiding behind the health minister's broken backbone and politically (self)instrumentalised experts is cowardly and is an admission that the pilots are pulling the aircraft's control wheel each in their own direction [...]
"Given the brutal trends - Slovenia became the global leader by the weekly average of new infections per million last week - a statesman's like appearance would be the minimum of what is called for. There is no strategy anymore if ever there was one," the paper says under the headline (Ir)responsible, appealing to people to "pull the brake" if the government is incapable of doing that.
