© Navalny instagram via APTuesday, Sept. 22, 2020: Navalny poses for a photo in a hospital in Berlin.
On August 20th, Russian opposition figure and self-styled "anti-corruption" activist Alexei Navalny fell seriously ill while in mid-flight from Tomsk, Siberia to the Russian capital. The Moscow-bound plane was abruptly re-routed to make an emergency landing in the Siberian city of Omsk where the anti-Kremlin politician was subsequently hospitalized for suspected poisoning and placed in a medically-induced coma.
Two days later, Navalny was airlifted to Germany in an evacuation arranged by a Berlin-based "human rights" NGO at the request of Pussy Riot spokesman Pyotr Verzilov. His transport on a medically-equipped plane with German specialists was permitted by the Russian authorities who now stand accused of culpability in the alleged attack, all in the midst of the ongoing pandemic.
While the Russian doctors in Omsk (who saved Navalny's life) maintain they did not find any evidence of chemical weapons substances in his system, upon examination the German government quickly announced that its military lab had discovered "unequivocal evidence" Navalny was poisoned by a Soviet-era Novichok nerve agent and demanded an explanation from the Kremlin — without providing any of said evidence to Moscow or the public, of course.
Despite being the supposed victim of an extremely deadly military-grade nerve agent, three weeks later Navalny came out his comatose state and off ventilation, defiantly vowing a return to Russia. Was he ever tested for COVID-19? At this point it seems more likely than this propaganda stunt we are expected to believe.
Comment: Health Minister Mikakos has resigned. Dan Andrews threw her under the bus and claimed she was the one 'accountable' for the hotel quarantine scheme. He should follow her, but that is unlikely.
At least the opposition is still calling for his resignation: More like, "I don't take responsibility for being a spineless tyrant."
Sure, this inquiry uncovered stunning incompetence at all levels, but still, it is operating on the assumption that someone needs to be held accountable for causing this "second wave" (which amounts to more of a pond ripple caused by a small pebble than a wave), not the stunning malevolence of a government adopting totalitarian policies and treating its own citizens like chattel in some communist hellhole.