To someone who questioned her timidly about the object of her concern, she replied with a serious air: “China worries me. » The famous replica of Madame de Guermantes (in “Albertine disappeared”, by Marcel Proust) is back on the agenda. China, which was presented in 2020 as a model for managing the pandemic, has become the laughing stock of the world in 2022. By persisting in carrying out a zero-Covid policy through deadly quarantines, it has turned its back on a policy of intensive vaccination which, in countries that could afford it, offered a much better solution.
The philosopher Karl Popper said that democracy is the political system that allows you to get rid of bad leaders without cost. No leader, democratically elected or not, easily changes his opinion for fear of losing his credibility. The myth of the leader’s infallibility is universal. The strength of democracies is to replace the leaders themselves when public opinion wants to change the course of the policies carried out, without undermining the credibility
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