Curfew: "the Scientific Council has lost the monopoly of speech"

2020-10-19T13:12:55.811Z

INTERVIEW - How, in a health sector saturated with organizations, do we urgently come to create bodies that will take the most important decisions of the turn of the century? This is what four researchers sought to analyze in the book Covid-19: an organizational crisis.

“

Life goes on.
There is no reason, except for vulnerable populations, to change our exit habits

”.

On March 6, Emmanuel Macron went to the theater and called not to “

deviate from common sense

” in the face of the coronavirus epidemic.

Ten days later, general confinement is decreed.

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Why such a rush, for an unprecedented measure with unknown consequences?

How could it be presented as the only possible choice by a Scientific Council created five days earlier, and legalized after the fact?

At the end of forty interviews with actors of the crisis, four sociologists, among whom Henri Bergeron, director of research at the CNRS, return in the work

Covid-19, an organizational crisis

on the mechanisms at the is working on one of the

“most important

political decisions

of the last 50 years”,

during the first wave

And this, at a time when a curfew will be imposed on several large metropolitan cities.

LE FIGARO.

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