Awful. Poor people are having tax money stolen from them to move head-of-state mummies... Even long-dead mummies are making people's lives miserable, lol.
I would normally agree with a statement along these lines. However I would like to think that this came out of the marketing budget for the tourism sector. I bet tourism is significant to Egypt's economy.
Then I think the question becomes: Was this an effective marketing event? Who knows. But considering someone from South Africa is discussing it with someone in the Netherlands on HN perhaps it worked out.
Absolutely. We do not normally discuss Egypt here in CZ, but this video is spreading virally across the social networks.
The post-Covid summer is inching closer and there is a lot of pent-up demand for tourism and discovery of new places. I bet some people are not going to forget this show.
We were the best in spring 2020. Then came the summer respite and the government started resting on their laurels. Then came the menacing autumn and an absolutely disastrous winter, when we actually were the worst in the world. If the USA had the same mortality as we have, it would have over 800 000 deaths by now.
Now the disease is falling off again in lockdown, but really fast, faster than expected (people are lukewarm about the rules).
There is some suspicion that the British variant simply swept through the nation so hard that, even with the subpar vaccination campaign, we have reached the herd immunity inadvertently. Clearly some of the regions that were worst hit just a month or two ago (Chebsko, Trutnovsko) are now doing OK, which seems to indicate lack of fuel for further infections there.
The Cairo Museum was not built intelligently or well and was falling apart even a century ago. Much priceless material culture was destroyed in basement flooding in the years before the Nile was dammed. John D. Rockefeller Jr. even offered to replace it in the 1920s, redirecting his funds to Jerusalem after politics and the control he demanded torpedoed the project. The mummies should have been moved to a more appropriate location long ago. I don't begrudge the Egyptian state a little bit of pomp and glitter as they do what they should have done long ago.
