Oppose Attempts to Render the Population Passive in the Face of PandemicA lot of media coverage and official statements in the U.S., as well as from certain quarters in Canada, are focused on bad-mouthing China as a dictatorship which violates human rights. This is intended to divert from the fundamental point that China is defending every life -- the most essential human right. The relentless campaign against China in relation to the outbreak of the virus goes so far as to say that 5G platforms and cell phone systems are used "to spy" on people. The U.S. magazine Science published a series of articles to say that although the way in which China handled the epidemic was laudable, "it was done at the expense of human rights." The article says, "How feasible these kinds of stringent measures are in other countries is debatable." It quotes Lawrence Gostin, a global health law scholar at Georgetown University as saying, "China is unique in that it has a political system that can gain public compliance with extreme measures. But its use of social control and intrusive surveillance are not a good model for other countries." In this way, the need to protect the population is reduced to an anti-communist rendering of what might constitute social control. "The country also has an extraordinary ability to do labour-intensive, large-scale projects quickly," says Jeremy Konyndyk, a senior policy fellow at the Center for Global Development: "No one else in the world really can do what China just did." Nor should they, says lawyer Alexandra Phelan, a China specialist at Georgetown's Center for Global Health Science and Security. "Whether it works is not the only measure of whether something is a good public health control measure," Phelan says. "There are plenty of things that would work to stop an outbreak that we would consider abhorrent in a just and free society." All of it illustrates the mindset of opposing the
mobilization of the human factor. The aim is to
disinform the population at home so that nobody
develops their own reference points to decide what
their society needs to do to contain the
coronavirus. A starting point is to demand the implementation of the recommendations of the World Health Organization that only all-out quarantine will contain the virus and protect the population and see how that can be applied in a living effective way.
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