There is one important addition to the above. The manifested features of the coronavirus pandemic force us to reconsider the existing ideas about herd immunity, a phenomenon, based on which medicine has always been able to build forecasts of the dynamics of pandemics and calculate costs and human losses. However, this explanation only leads to quantitative solutions based on old approaches and raises new questions. There are attempts to explain this by a mutation of the virus, according to which each new mutation starts a new cycle of propagation and requires new vaccination measures. The upper diagram shows data on the dynamics of morbidity, the middle diagram, on the dynamics of mortality, the bottom diagram, on the dynamics of vaccination. Published on the website of the newspaper Kommersant. Summary data on the dynamics of incidence and vaccination from COVID-19 in the world, by week, on the morning of September 5, 2021, obtained from Johns Hopkins University (data used by the World Health Organization). The quantitative growth of the population covered by vaccinations practically does not affect the dynamics of morbidity and mortality the process develops according to some other pattern ( Fig. One of the main mysteries of the coronavirus pandemic is the absence of logically expected positive correlations between the incidence and vaccination of the population. The prevailing views to this day about the almost complete understanding of the nature of viral infections and the technological readiness of mankind to confront epidemics can be shaken by the research results that have discovered unexpected properties of pandemics and new aspects of their interactions with humans and society. The COVID-19 pandemic forced the suspension of the work of organizations and enterprises in the vast majority of countries, affected the state of world markets, led to huge losses of capital and, importantly, aggravated relations in world politics. None of the historically known biological viruses 1 reached such a scale of expansion. Its revealed features were expressed in the fact that the outbreak of a pandemic covered all countries and continents and, in addition to the densely populated regions of the planet, the disease struck even practically unpopulated areas of the Arctic Polar Region and Antarctica. The COVID-19 virus can be considered one of these factors that appeared as if it were the result of some otherworldly intervention. The peculiarity of the moment lies in the fact that the future scenario, one of several possible and impossible ones, is unpredictable and its choice may depend, at times, on the most unexpected factor. This is evidenced by a series of economic and financial crises, the collapse of the usual social and economic models, the destruction of the institution of the family, and the spiritual degradation of capitalist society.Ĭivilization has come to a critical point, called a bifurcation point, the point of cardinal changes, which will be followed by a new scenario for further development. The emerging digital society has entered into a deep contradiction not only with the capitalist mode of production and market relations, but also with moral and ethical norms. The development of technologies has reached the level where not only the transition to new socio-economic relations is required, but also the need to build new worldview foundations (synthesis). The world community is completing the stage of Hegel’s antithesis, which personifies the rejection of the previously dominant paradigms and systems of analysis (thesis).
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