DISINFO: Only authoritarian states and closed societies will be able to protect their populations from the coronavirus and from future pandemics
SUMMARY
Globalism and the unipolar order are crumbling. In order to survive and cope with new challenges, nations must adopt a new model for the state, new forms of governance, and a new ideology. Nations must shift to an alternative, post-globalist, model of the state and society. The open society must become a closed society. Also necessary is an autoritarian state that exerts rigid centralised control over society, and a self-sufficient economic system. A rigid authoritarian state and closed society are necessary in order to protect a country’s population from the coronavirus and from future pandemic outbreaks.
RESPONSE
The article’s claims about the superiority of political authoritarianism and isolationist “closed societies” in preventing and controlling epidemics do not reflect reality. Authoritarian regimes, which tend to control and manipulate information and to limit the freedom of doctors and scientists to engage in international cooperation, are often an obstacle to the timely detection and containment of epidemic outbreaks.
A clear example is China’s deliberate cover-up of the early days of the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan. The regime suppressed information about the virus and allowed it to spread unchecked in the crucial early days and weeks. The Chinese government censored and detained those doctors and whistleblowers who attempted to sound the alarm and warn their fellow citizens when they understood the gravity of the coronavirus threat.
Furthermore, the real antidote to the coronavirus pandemic (and to future epidemic outbreaks) is not to revert to nationalist isolationism and “closed societies” but to develop a global response.
A coordinated, cross-border effort of the scientific and medical community to understand the virus, create cures and treatments, and speedily disseminate a vaccine across national borders, will end the pandemic.
Read here a previous case claiming that democracy and freedom prevent Europe from fighting the virus effectively.