Karanténa 2.0 - Svět už není kulatý – Klaus Václav (2020)

Quarantine 2.0 follows the book Quarantine, which Václav Klaus and the team at the Václav Klaus Institute wrote during the first lockdown at the turn of March and April 2020. "We wanted to say clear, calming, non-alarming words to the public. We wanted to contribute to the search for a rational government policy," writes Václav Klaus in the introduction to the new book. This epidemic has already divided our society in the spring, and now in the autumn, this division seems even deeper. It divides friends and turns them into enemies. It divides colleagues at work into those who enjoy going to work and lovers of 'home offices.' It creates tension in families between those who are worried and those who are allegedly irresponsible. It divides people on the streets into smiling and frowning, calm and frightened, those attacking the unmasked and those trying to live as much as possible according to their own ideas even with a non-zero level of risk. The role of the state in society has significantly changed over the past few months – from an institution that plays only a marginal role in a free society, the state has transformed into the main, omnipresent demiurge of every minute of our lives. The situation is both new and not new; old arguments still apply, but they need to be supplemented. Even in the preface of the first book...