As I suspected, the response to the covid scam in Russia wasn’t ever monolithic. But now, it seems, the faction-fight is over, and Vlad and friends have decreed that the covid-flu is nothing to panic about, so - back to normal. QR codes have collapsed under the innate refusenik attitudes of Rus plebs. Vlad, understanding ever more just what a damp squib the covid-flu is, perhaps, goes along:
*Riley Waggaman’s own description of himself. 