From This Morning, I Am Also Looking for the Mayor: Naira Zohrabyan

As far as I can understand, amid this coronavirus trend, everyone has started searching for the Mayor of Yerevan. This was stated by Naira Zohrabyan, a member of the National Assembly from the Prosperous Armenia faction, on her Facebook page.

She specifically noted: “And not just because it’s his birthday, or some military celebration, but because the head of a one-and-a-half million population capital simply cannot be considered missing or ‘disappear’ like an elusive John. Since this morning, I, too, have been looking for Mayor Hayk and want to receive a light ‘advice’ from him regarding a very delicate question. The fact that we love our brilliant individuals only posthumously, so that each of us can sit and share tearful memories — that is a national-genetic quirk. But now, there is a serious question for the mayor, from which there is no response. Has any of you even tried to find out how our greatest Maestros — Artavazd Peleshyan, Hovhannes Chekidjyan, and Tigran Mansuryan — are living during these difficult times? Has any of you ever thought to call and ask our elderly geniuses, who are self-isolating at home, what they need? You haven’t, none of you, not even once.

I understand that every person has the constitutional right to various anxieties, including abnormal phobias; for example, sitting at home and with a Stakhanovite enthusiasm suddenly washing hands and being afraid to go to work. But to not care about how these three brilliant and elderly individuals are living and what they may need, that, excuse me, is immoral.

Postscript: I hope I won’t see the government’s fake factory zombies under this post of mine, reciting the same repertoire and using the same vocabulary. Is your fake-fury establishment not in quarantine? Let me just check with the health minister. What I've said is a concern, it’s a warning, and no matter how much you bombard my page with your cosmic idiocy and the ‘second hand’ rhetoric from your team, it will not diminish your idiocy. Do not forget these three brilliant individuals; they are our conscience, our history, and our memory.”