In Serbia, people want to travel without masks, let alone breathing apparatus. Only employees at stores, restaurants, gas stations, museums, etc. who apply a mouth guard forcibly. Bars and restaurants in Belgrade are full inside and out, music is playing, and you can sing. No one should pretend to be part of the same family, or seek escape from scrutiny in legal loopholes like I refused to report (examination) so as not to harm people close to me.

The Slavic country in southeastern Europe is gradually moving towards a state of freedom and living without fear and various restrictions. Much of this freedom comes along with the rapid pace of vaccinations, which the government is also financially motivated by. Those who get vaccinated will receive about six hundred.

The country is vaccinated with the American-German vaccine from Pfizer/BioNTech, Russia’s Sputnik V, China’s Sinopharm and Britain’s AstraZeneca are also present. There are so many vaccines that even people from other countries in the region can get vaccinated for free. When there is a surplus, Serbian authorities also invite foreigners from anywhere, who, like local residents and the region, can get vaccinated without registration, to wait.

I saw with my own eyes a vaccination site in a department store, where people, especially young people, went without making an appointment to get vaccinated between shopping trips. There is also a vaccination bus. Getting vaccinated in Serbia is as easy as going to the bakery to buy pastries. At least 50 percent of people have received the first dose.

I wrote all of the above to give you an idea of ​​how far you can go out of the chaos of easing and tightening, fear of further quarantine closures, or in good Czechs, lockdowns, other healthcare delays and more. pleasures that have made life more enjoyable over the past year. I also write this because there is a lot of evil that happens when politics and health are combined.

We’ve heard all year that health takes precedence over politics and everything else, and lo and behold, suddenly it doesn’t matter. In the case of the vaccine donation from Serbia, for example, we heard from several parties that it was a good action, but not significant, after all it was only one day of vaccination.

Anyone who says this has a sacred and democratic right to free speech, but such arguments reek of willful ignorance. Remember that only six cities in the entire Czech Republic have a population of one hundred thousand inhabitants. Backroom sparrows also tweeted that when Serbian President Vučić promised a vaccine during his recent visit to Prague, some government officials with ties to the European Union revolted.

They thought it best to refuse the reward offered, or at least cover it up, as the Union might get angry. This is even more stupid than reducing vaccination donations across a large city like Olomouc. If vaccine procurement centers in the European Union provide enough vaccines, there will no longer be a need to accept donations from non-EU countries, which did not wait for the fulfillment of Brussels’ promises to Western Balkan countries and instead carried out their own procurement, such as Serbia. And as the Serbian president told me during an interview, the state pays for everything (see Here). Fortunately, the gift was accepted by Prime Minister Babiš without any incident, and we were spared international embarrassment and unnecessary humiliation to a country that only wanted to help.

Controversy whether acknowledged or not regarding whether or not a donation is politically appropriate is no longer set aside when it comes to health, which is the most important thing. In the same way, a scoundrel, very political, not thinking about health, revealed himself. It makes no sense that only vaccines administered in the Czech Republic are approved for Czech citizens. And for foreigners, vaccines are only given if there is a bilateral agreement, for example with a neighboring country or Croatia or Hungary. The reason he can cheat is bullshit.

After all, the vaccine from the manufacturer is the same everywhere. Pfizer from Israel is like Pfizer from Serbia or Germany or the US. And if vaccines from Russia and China can be recognized in Hungary’s case, then vaccines administered in other countries should also be recognized.

It is time to recognize vaccination certificates from abroad too, where they also work for one hundred thousand Czech citizens, in the European Union and beyond, in the west, east, north and south of the Czech basin. We need to vaccinate as many as we can, cancel the waiting lists, stop making bureaucratic hoops and hope that we too will experience freedom like in Serbia. Where the rules written on the table and everyday reality are no different. People who travel to the Czech Republic know what they are talking about.