Greece and the pandemic: health system collapsed, media silenced, artists on hold

<p>&ldquo;No one will stop me from going to Crete during the Easter holidays,&rdquo; the sister of the Greek prime minister, MP and former minister Dora Bakojanis said in an interview with television station SKAI.</p> <p>When asked by a reporter if this was the case for all citizens, she added: &lsquo;God has an advantage&rsquo;<br /> Bakojanis, the 66-year-old daughter of the conservative New Democracy ideologue, Konstantinos Mitsotakis, who once also mayored Athens, has shown indidifferently that there are two kinds of citizens in Greece; the political rich elite and everyone else.<br /> After five months of closure, status inequality is mirrored in Greek society: the epidemic has become a battle for survival justified by the Mitsotakis government tightening repressive control, concealing the adoption of school, energy and economic reforms and openly attacking critics.</p> <p><a href="https://lihtenvalner.medium.com/greece-and-the-pandemic-health-system-collapsed-media-silenced-artists-on-hold-be131db28936"><strong>Website</strong></a></p>