Source: Taiwan Industry and Commerce Times Society
Faced with the invasion of the new crown virus epidemic, the process of closing the city in Europe and the United States to ban the city's feet and unblocking pace of decision -making is very different.British Prime Minister Johnson is infected with personal negligence. Britain has become the country with the largest number of deaths in Europe, and the United States is the country with the largest number of cases and deaths in the world.What is puzzling is why the epidemic in the United States and the United States is equally fierce, and the United States and Britain, which views the social security system nearly the same as the United Kingdom. As a result, it is also regrettable.
In the past two weeks, US President Trump and British Prime Minister Johnson are undoubtedly the focus of the world's most attention.On the one hand, Trump has conducted a full range of pots to throw pots on the one hand, and the new crown virus originated from Wuhan, Hubei. On the other hand, it re -started the economy and start the economy again to solve the political crisis caused by unemployment problems.British Prime Minister Johnson, the blond hair, is the most well-known and cured Covid-19 diagnosis of patients in the world's politics today. Perhaps it is because of the closure of the ghost door. Johnson's perception of the severity of the epidemic has returnedPositive track.
In order to fight against the epidemic, the governments and heads of state and the heads of state came out of the response countermeasures.But there are two characteristics: first, science as proficiency, should or not be preferred by politics and economy; second, the exercise of political power is there any boundary.The former belongs to the personal leadership style of the head of state, and whether it can make a timely and correct political judgment category; the latter involves the government system of East and Western, even the United States and European countries.Quickly expand, and whether it can restrict and supervise whether it can be restricted.
The fourth President of the United States James Madison (term from 1809 to 1817) once said that the federal government and the state government are only different agents and clients who are given different powers and responsibilities by the people. Compared with the centralized system of the British government, the United StatesThe central government of the central government's rights, this time in the process of preventing the epidemic prevention, home closure, and even unsealed the start of construction. Save people first, or to rescue the industry first, or to prevent the spread of the epidemic first, or fight the people's livelihood, or fight the people's livelihood.What is revealed is that people are speaking, mixed information, their own politics, and even the president and governor's constraints on the politics policy.
Let's look at the medical system. Britain has the National Medical Services (NHS).In addition, the United States is vast from the east coast to the west coast, with a population of five times more than the United Kingdom. Due to timely and due to local conditions, states are more likely to be different from the state of financial and barren.It also highlights the smell of Zhumen's wine, and the road has frozen bones. The disparity between the rich and the poor has already gone to life in the United States and has the political value of life.
How can the two so -called advanced countries be clumsy against the anti -epidemic situation?The most fundamental reason is that Trump and Johnson have insufficient awareness of public health policy information at the beginning. Economic and political considerations are given priority to scientific evidence and professional advice of medical care. NowadaysThe price is inevitable.
American scholar Deborah Stone once pointed out that political decision -making information can be divided into two types: objective information related to the price and quality of the alternative, and subjective information related to individual preferences.In other words, the main administrative person can make rational choices based on accurate information, but it may also make an indoctrinating -sharing allegations because they want to make political persuasion.
For more than a month, Trump held a press conference at the White House every day, and he repeatedly emphasized that his candle machine first and epidemic control have achieved great results.However, in late April, the number of deaths in the United States was close to 60,000 (previously), and he no longer held the White House press conference. For the presidential election six months later, he strategically turned into a political attack of the virus dumping.The British Prime Minister Johnson speaks before and after discharge, and the picture will speak, from the spirit to the spirit to face, and the Johnson who won Lindier in May. At this timeHis three -sentence slogan: Stay Home/Protecting the National Health Insurance/Save Lives.
This year's death, just 100 years old, German's great social science thinker Max Weber, regarded information as a tool (Instrument of Power).What British scholar Peter John emphasizes that information and persuasion as a soft tool (Soft Tool) can help the law and control operation of more efficient functions;The required information.
The information of medical profession and public health has on the influence of government decision -making, obviously its political limitations.At this moment, any objective and professional information may only have the value of instrumentality, especially before the election cannot be avoided.In this regard, whether you can seek truth from facts and use the information of medical majors and scientific evidence as the only criterion for epidemic prevention decision -making and people's livelihood relief policies, it will be the key to whether the United States and the United Kingdom can get out of the peak point of death.And if you want to lead the people out of the predicament, the two national leaders must respect objective information, make rational choices, and get rid of the politics of election politics!The blessings of the people of the two countries have one dedication; make decisions based on scientific evidence, no other way.
