Impressionnant ! prenant parti dans le débat, l’édito du Lancet vote sans aucune hésitation pour la supériorité d’un régime autoritaire, pardon, une administration forte bénéficiant d’un consentement acquis d’avance de sa population à se soumettre à des procédures strictes…
China’s success rests largely with a strong administrative system that it can mobilise in times of threat, combined with the ready agreement of the Chinese people to obey stringent public health procedures. Although other nations lack China’s command-and-control political economy, there are important lessons that presidents and prime ministers can learn from China’s experience. The signs are that those lessons have not been learned.
… et la conclusion : suivez l’exemple de la Chine
So far, evidence suggests that the colossal public health efforts of the Chinese Government have saved thousands of lives. High-income countries, now facing their own outbreaks, must take reasoned risks and act more decisively. They must abandon their fears of the negative short-term public and economic consequences that may follow from restricting public freedoms as part of more assertive infection control measures.