Author: Wang Huilin
New coronary pneumonia's epidemic is out of control and spreads the world.Italy, France, and Spain have become the hardest hit areas, and the response of the British government is really surprising.The test of this epidemic is public policies in various countries, which are treated and responded to such large -scale epidemics.
Fear becomes risk management
There is a manifestation of modern society theory, that is, Risk Society, which is how a country manages and controls risks.However, the birth of risks stems from fear.Fear is an innate natural instinct and response.Human beings are afraid in the face of life threats.In the face of unpredictable situations, people will feel fear.Therefore, the development of human beings for thousands of years is inseparable from the fear of control: in the face of the beast attack, humans must develop weapons; in the face of the threat of wind and rain, people must learn to live in caves.
The development of science is to tell civilians: In a rational and scientific attitude, fear can be overcome and controlled.The method is to use scientific reason, such as data, so that ordinary people feel that under scientific analysis, although life disasters and human disasters will be threatened, the opportunity rate will be relatively low.Or, under the scientific analysis, the chance of some natural disasters and human disasters is relatively high, and the public should have precautions.Under more than 100 years of scientificism, fear can be rationalized, data, or risky.Fear has become risk management and a bunch of mathematical models.Fear is no longer a human instinctual response, but a risk of preventing and controllable.Moreover, the risk can be calculated, it can be used to prevent it with insurance, both and insurance can also be financial products, which can be sold.If one day, you are unfortunately damaged because of natural disasters and human disasters, and insurance is compensated.
These experts who control risks have said that for decades, it will always be a little unexpected extreme thing (that is, the so -called force majeure), but most of the accidents areIt can be predicted.It can be predicted that it means that it can be controlled.The unexpected accident is the bottom of the insurance packet.For more than 100 years, most people actually believe (even superstitious). In fact, many risks are controlled and controllable, and a set of scientific spirit and rational analysis system behind this control is a civilized spirit and social characteristics of modern people.Essence
Risk Utopia will not happen
First talk about the soldiers here: To do a good job of controlling the risks and reducing fear, the best way is to believe in science and believe in public policy based on science. Everyone follows this rational idea to do things, and any risk can be minimized.To do this, except for citizens from all walks of life, they believe and adhere to this set of scientific and rational practices. Experts must open their publicity when deciding, and publish information as much as possible to make the information as transparent as possible.As long as the public follows the advice of experts to actively face and deal with the risks in front of you, theoretically, the society can reduce fear and return the society to the right track.
But this kind of risk Utopia will certainly not happen.Because of the end, everyone's perception of science is in vastness.There will always be a few people in the society that the view of modern science is not scientific at all, and it is not believed that they would rather believe in intuition.Moreover, it is assumed that people all over the world believe in science, but as mentioned earlier, fear is an inherent instinct, and people's acceptance of risks and fear is also different.Some natural disasters and human disasters are just small things for some people, but for victims, they are very scared.It is normal for this kind of extreme ideas to focus on diverse and free Western democratic society.The question is, how should the government manage this frightening monster?
Management and controlling the differences in the lungs of the lungs
This time, the situation of western countries' control of new crown pneumonia can be described as skirts and pants, which is precisely highlighting all countries. Even if many people believe that the so -called science and rationality, the differences in dealing with the problem of fear.Britain is a typical example.Experts by the British government, at the beginning of the use of data and experience and cases accumulated by epidemiological diseases, coupled with the limitations of the current national medical system, it is more effective to use the collective infection method of equivalent Buddhist systems.However, there are other experts, which also refer to data and cases, but believe that the anti -blocking model of Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore may be more effective.
Citizens are more afraid of citizens under the information explosion
What about ordinary citizens?From personal experience, media reports, and social media, they are closed when they see the European Big Blast. The anti -blocking methods of other countries may be more effective, but there is no way to judge whether it is the collective infection of British experts close to the Buddhist department.It is more feasible, or is it more useful for anti -blocking mode?As a result, citizens became more afraid under the explosion of information. Moreover, they saw the pain of patients in the media, the hard work of medical staff, and the government also called the citizens to have cough and fever.In the case of no feasible way, the people only need to grab the supplies to protect themselves.The British government was so angry in the market, and the United States also had to seal the United Kingdom, and had to use a enclosure to fight the epidemic, but it was already behind the epidemic.
Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore's enclosure models, or the Buddhist model mentioned by another public health expert in the UK, is good or bad. In the future, relevant experts will be endless in the discussion of public health policies.However, the modern society and scientific ethics behind this epidemic are also discussed by other sociologists and philosophers.
The author is current affairs commentator
