🦠 To attend Putin’s speech at SPIEF, people first had to prove they didn’t have COVID
Entry required a special pass, issued only after negative test results for COVID-19, influenza, and other respiratory illnesses.
A reminder: the COVID pandemic officially ended more than three years ago.
The funniest part? All these PCR tests were required just to sit through an hour and a half of Putin talking about the imaginary successes of the Russian economy.