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Miljenko Jergović Let's ask Capak: What is the difference between a crowd in a nightclub and a crowd in a church in Sinj On the tenth day of the Storm celebration and the sixth day of Alka, the epidemic curve went up in the sky, but cafes and nightclubs are to blame for everything 8485355 Josko Supic / Cropix Posted: August 18, 2020 5:52 pm SUSPICIOUS FACE From an epidemiological point of view, prayer and swearing are equally valid SUSPICIOUS FACE Korona has made the whole of Croatia fear whether Hans will go to sea this year Scenes from the opening of a supermarket in Zadar are a picture of Croatian August 2020. Columns of people, mostly middle-aged and older men and women, in a tight battle line, typical of the queue in front of the box office, in sweaty synthetic blouses, skirts and chakshis, in this disposable haundemic outfit. , characteristic of the frantic and meaningless Eastern European societies, completely lose their minds when a precarious saleswoman starts massacring a roast pig in the middle of a shop with a plastic knife. They grab it with their fists on paper plates and then push it into their human mouths with their fingers, trying to get rid of what bothers them beforehand: disposable surgical masks, and homemade ones sewn by old grandmothers, in which they sew. for weeks in a favorable moist biotope, on the agar of their breath, they develop the most diverse microbiological structures, bacteria, bacilli, viruses, which will now this completely new substrate of fresh lard will favor to create monstrous infectious civilizations around human mouths. While greasy fingers, which, however, still smell of disinfectant, and semi-cremated stern give a specific ethylene tone in taste, occasional guests, with masks dropped under the chin, these people from the Zadar supermarket violate generally accepted rules and recommendations of the Civil Protection Headquarters. , according to which every citizen, employed or unemployed, both the trader and his customer, the loss indoors should be covered and clogged with a cloth tied with an elastic rubber band, which would prevent the exchange of microorganisms with persons with whom the loss comes into contact. . Pork, greasy, August, or if you prefer August, which was baked in the sun of Dalmatia and sizzling in the sizzling of crickets, cannot be devoured with a cloth over your face. The organizers of the Zadar event knew this well, so why did they offer the people something that would not only lead to the violation of all desirable rules of conduct and barely established Croatian cultural traditions and customs, but would also openly ridicule that people and its leaders? Because how are you going to joke with a disabled person without legs: by giving him a pair of shoes! How are you going to joke with Croats at the time of the corona: by treating them to fatty sizzling pork in the middle of the supermarket! However, nothing will happen to the Italian retail chain because of this hogwash. But there will be no warnings, and if it were not for those few portals outside the control of the government, this event would not have been known. Just as it would not be known about the wedding of the sweetheart of General Fuzul , one of the first fighters against the corona virus. The rules of dealing with the virus, as well as the rules of conduct at the time of the epidemic, differ, namely, in accordance with that notorious proverb which tells us that oxen are not allowed what Jupiter is allowed. The supermarket chain is called Eurospin - listen to Eurospin! - is under the protection of Jupiter, just as Fuzul's wedding guests were under the protection of Jupiter before, and just as mass manifestations with pronounced elements of social closeness, such as the celebration of the Storm and the Sinj Alka, are under the protection of Jupiter. And then no one wants to notice, because it is not patriotic to notice something that is obvious, that a dramatic jump in the epidemic occurs ten days after the evocation of military action in Knin, and five or six days after a group of male cavalry, armed spears, chasing the Turks across the dusty racetrack. In those two days, we watched this with our own eyes on television, the gentlemen were so close to the gentlemen that they could smell each other whether they were eating pork or lamb, and the ladies were so close to the ladies that they could smell each other if they were in tomato salad of either garlic or it was just an onion, so how is it possible, then try to explain to us reasonably, that covid-19 was broadcast in a nightclub on Vir - which in reality does not exist, but it was just a training of the General Staff , and was not transmitted at patriotic events, at church farewells and processions, or at the pig-eating in Eurospin? There is a myth, unusually irritating, because it is very obviously unfounded in reality - and what kind of myth will it be but unfounded in reality? - that a new epidemic wave, for which Croatia is breaking all its records, occurred because the Croatian youth, together with tourists, were intensively printing, pushing and rubbing in Dalmatian nightclubs. All information is packaged and formatted in such a way that the thing has to be obvious to everyone. Although I personally dread nightclubs, especially in Dalmatia, almost as much as I dread weddings and human fists in fatty pig tissue, much earlier I wanted to be horrified by the chase as a fundamental anti-epidemic tool that these people have been using for months. Just as at the beginning of the epidemic, when it was still believed that they were not dealing with politics and ideology, but with the virus, they infamous that famous charter flight to Turkey, as Krunoslav Capak called tourists from that summer, unequivocally playing on sentiments. our epic ten-strong audience, which will pierce the Turks with a spear through a tight iron ring a few months later, so today that Capak, together with the police minister Božinović , points his finger at nightclubs. But when it comes to processions and pardons on the occasion of the Assumption, they both meekly refer to the statement of the Bishops' Conference, removing from themselves and from their headquarters any thought of regulating the behavior of citizens in this kind of their daily life. This is what the packaging looks like: these people will tell you how long you can stay in cafes, they will ban you from working in nightclubs, they will put masks over your face in every closed space, but when it comes to churches, as well as what happens around the churches, during pagan ceremonies during which the cauldron is simmered in the convenient facilities and more dead, pig-loaded pigs are roasted, there the capazi and božinovići are dumbfounded and possibly crossed, with a couple of appropriate prayers. In the last few months, an extremely disturbing culture has been created in Croatia. After, for epidemiological reasons, all film festivals were closed, theaters closed, the entire cultural life, elite weddings with several hundred guests, church and parachurch ceremonies, patriotic and folklore events and shopping center openings became the only allowed, state-supported and desirable a cultural tradition, which the competent headquarters, invoking health reasons, will defend by all means, as the highest value of the communitymILJENKO jERGOVIĆ