We're back. We're back in the studio with Flavoy Zhizek, the author of Pandemic One.

I'm not going to list off all of your other titles. You can go to Wikipedia and look up the bibliography.

My first question for you is, you're a very prolific guy. Are you a morning or a night person?

It's an interesting point. It's quite a tragedy. I didn't get discovered a proper formula of my day.

What happens regularly is that I sleep long. Then I get up earlier than my wife, which means that I have to prepare breakfast around the store if it's still possible and so on.

Then after that is lunch. I get up. So what I wanted to say is that in this way almost every day I find myself at let's say 8 p.m.

And I didn't do anything productive reading writing. So then I try to use that time till midnight 1 a.m. to work, which means that I never have a time to enjoy myself and so on and so on.

I didn't find a good formula. Who my envy is the record of persons to them. I knew myself and from history philosophy.

I manually can't. I'm going to read and and I'm going to say that I'm so much. They should be right. You get up around 5 in the morning and you do the work from like half past 5, still 11 or no.

And then you are free all the afternoon and you go to sleep after the evening news at 9 and so on. But I like this idea that there is no or 1 p.m. and you are free. I cannot do it.

Also, I have a heavy day. I beat this so I get tired very quickly and so on and so on. But by a deal with your bindi's where I spell in the morning and to go to sleep earlier.

You're in Slovenia. You've been in lockdown for a week. You said no, but we have another lockdown in late March early April.

It's a nice proof how when do you feel really threatened by COVID how it's also part of certain ideological but maybe even more simply psychological mechanisms. I remember Slovenia, small country, 2 million.

And when the first wave was at its worst, it's at maximum 60, 70 cases per day and we were already in a pandemic.

Now a couple of days ago we had 2600 on a day in one day and people were not in such a panic. So you see it's all I don't know what you expect perception and so on and so on.

But now panic is setting in really now it's by far the worst from us. But we and the Czech Republic and Belgium I think are the worst in Europe.

But maybe just don't just tell stories. You know what interests me so much when I say interest me it means I find it horrible of course.

But only you in the United States here also all around Europe and here.

The state is simply silently doing what I call following the Trump line losing or renouncing even control.

The first step was when they publicly declared that they are not able to trace your contacts if you are positive you know they can do so what they did is this.

Now to get tested you have to wait for this blah blah. Then till four or five weeks ago it was that if you were in a close contact with a person who tested positive you have to go to a quarantine.

Now they renounce this they say not enough people in the hospital sense of one if you are in a contact with a person who tested positive no quarantine you go on working till you feel that something is wrong.

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