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Coronavirus: strengthening the leader's “humanitarian defenses”

2020-04-01T04:27:26.378Z


TRIBUNE - Teacher and researcher at Harvard University, Guila Clara Kessous is currently working with healthcare staff facing the coronavirus crisis. It provides three recommendations for "keeping it together" in the current crisis.


At a time when the concept of "collective immunity" is topical, that is to say the hypothesis of an immunity which will be established once a certain number of people affected by the virus, it would be interesting to look at the notion of "collective humanity" : by act of solidarity, it allows to draw a human outline of the collective rather than making it a Darwinian means of containing the epidemic.

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Social networks have never been requisitioned to encourage so many "free acts of kindness" : the proposal of songs on balconies like in Italy, applause at a certain time at his window to greet the medical profession ... These acts which are useless are on the contrary at the service of a deep value: that of humanity, of being together in this ordeal and until the end ...

Besides, "to be confined" , does it not mean, based on the Latin etymology, cum / finis : to finish together ? How to recreate a leadership in search of this "collective humanity" , of this

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Source: lefigaro

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