Zelenskyi says wanted to get COVID ‘so that people understand this is no plague’
Censor.NET reports citing Ukrainska Pravda.
"I wanted to go through this stage myself. To make sure people perceive it less stressfully," Zelenskyi told Ukrainian Pravda.
"When we had a moment of depression, we gathered. I suggested the team: 'Let me get infected and be immediately isolated on Bankova [The Presidential Office HQ in Kyiv]. And I'll get through this alright.' So that people understand it really is scary, you can get sick, you do feel bad. And I will let this go through me and show them. But at the same time, people will understand that it's no plague. That's to make sure they aren't depressed. At the very onset, there was a very scary moment when people thought we would all die," said Zelenskyi.
However, the idea was never implemented. "We decided it was too much," said the president.
Also, according to Zelenskyi, his family would not have forgiven him such a step.
"They would say I'm crazy. And they'd be right, actually," the president summed up.
