“Don’t panic with COVID-19. Learn from Latvia,” says Pabriks

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“Resilience is about education. COVID-19 will not be the last emergency faced by Europe,” said Artis Pabriks, Latvian Deputy Prime Minister, and Minister for Defence. “We must all learn from this, change our mindset when it comes to crisis management, educate our citizens.”

Speaking with EURACTIV reporter, Brian Maguire, Pabriks outlined why Europe urgently needs to create a “readiness culture”. In Latvia, Pabriks recently launched a preparedness campaign called “72hrs”, encouraging Latvians to be prepared for any type of crisis; teaching citizens how to survive on their own for at least seventy-two hours. In doing so, he said, citizens will reduce their vulnerabilities and minimize serious risks.

The change in mindset, he says, comes from education: by enhancing critical thinking, media literacy, cyber hygiene, and digital literacy.

“Resilience relates to managing the consequences of all threats and hazards,” said Pabriks. “Our national state defence system is focusing on enhancing resilience - societal, psychological economic - and reducing vulnerabilities, by improving the resilience of key infrastructure assets, critical sectors and societies, and each individual.”

“Since it doesn’t really matter whether a power station has been destroyed by floodwaters or explosive devices, or whether a telecommunications supply chain has been compromised by cyber-attacks or software glitches, the response is largely the same. The backbone of Latvia’s plan is to take a ‘whole of society’ approach, allowing every actor, whether it is an individual, organization, company or a governmental body, to realize that in certain circumstances each of them becomes an important part of state defence.”
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Funny watching this now with them getting 3, 000 cases per day.

CellGames
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Support students who dnt have enough money, save them

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Why to ask question about Covid to Minister of Defence and not to Minister of Healthcare?

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When they tell you not to panic you should run fast as hell

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As always, Latvia is at the end by all indicators. The government is not even able to organize good vaccination process, without talking about an economy.

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Россия береги свою границу. Меня тут посадят в тюрьму я знаю. Поебать. Правда будет торжествовать. Ещё мое Уважением к Узбекам К Туркменам К Казахам Всех люблю вас хорошие плановые мои любимые хоть какой натции

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He's so smart and look so good in every movement 🤗🤗🤗🤗

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Domāju laicīgi jāpadomā kas notiek huilostānā robežas tuvumā.

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Lithuania has fewest number of corona cases

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Latvia pm has to pay student to live, expensives, people are dieing lack of food due to carona

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