Bulgaria in Crisis: How World’s Saddest Place Became Deadliest

Literature always knew it, philosophy knew it, culture knew it, civilization knew it - Man is the measure of everything. Not the economy, not the highways, not the restaurants, not the disco clubs, not the jeeps, not the stadiums, not the debts and interest rates, not even gross domestic product. All this comes later. Man, even in his mortality and vulnerability, in his passions and sadness. And life in all its fragility.

Only in hopeless societies and systems does human life not cost a penny. In the countries where marching citizens greeted their rulers waving from the stands. Or in countries where the persecution of people is first tolerated, then forgottenand finally awarded with orders. In countries where the fire of a dictatorship has gone through to incinerate the value of human life. And also in countries chaotic, corrupt, simulating democracy.

There are all sorts of possible explanations for today's failure and chaos in dealing with the coronavirus. It could be out of stupidity, lack of authority, and carelessness of the system's rulers. Because all of a sudden it turned out that the second Coronavirus wave surprised us. In the spring we said we would use the summer and the time we have to get prepared. But someone somewhere voiced this purely Bulgarian saying, "Come on, leave it as it is". Or "Brother, it's hopeless, it will always be like that!".

Thanks to such remarks, the foretold death of several people on the staircase of hospitals became a fact . A man has the right to die with dignity, even when that dignity is continually denied to him in life. That's where the whole chain of deaths started, shooting us to the first places of fatalities.

We, the Bulgarians collectively have rarely been first in the world in...