“Why do I need such a pensioner?”: The Mayor of Yelabuga called the unvaccinated old people “enemies”

The head of the Yelabuga region of Tatarstan Rustem Nuriyev urged not to serve, said that management companies should refuse to provide services to unvaccinated citizens, and request QR codes from pensioners before giving out gifts. This was reported by KazanFirst, which received an audio recording from a closed meeting of the headquarters.

In particular, he said that management companies should stop serving unvaccinated residents: “It is necessary to explain that all staff refuses to go to the unvaccinated, this is an infection. Request QR codes then. At all service organizations, employees must write that they refuse to go. But so that it does not come from us, but from our own specialists. “

There is also one more quote from the mayor: “Here we should have, of course, when we distribute [деньги] on May 9 or Day of the Elderly, ask for QR codes right away. I would not be ashamed. The person must be responsible. I am vaccinated, a pensioner comes to me for a personal appointment and infects me. I will not get sick, because I am vaccinated, but I, the carrier, come to where an unvaccinated person without antibodies sits, infect him. Why do I need such a pensioner? This is not a pensioner – this is a real enemy. “

Later on Friday, Nuriev expressed deep regret that his “emotional words distorted the true meaning of my experiences.”

He apologized to everyone who was offended by these words. “They are dictated solely by concern for the residents of Yelabuga,” the official wrote on Instagram.

Earlier, the head of the Nizhny Novgorod Rospotrebnadzor Natalia Kucherenko originally explained the purpose of the covid restrictions: “We can say that we see an infection, that it hasn’t hidden, that we didn’t just close our eyes and, like ostriches, put our heads in the sand, that we were cleaning our population, anti-epidemic measures, isolate, prescribe, and so on, and so on. “