It is perfectly legitimate, for governments as well as for citizens, to worry about the current Covid-19 pandemic. It is an extremely contagious viral disease, which can cause very severe pneumonia, in subjects with immune defenses weakened by age or by other morbidities. To combat it, an offensive strategy must be adopted.
We must requisition the industry so that it produces masks, respirators and tests very quickly, always screen more and more, isolate the patients, then carry out serologies to ensure their safety. We must invest massively in medical research for an effective treatment, pending the vaccine, which will take at least a year to develop.
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However, in this fight, you have to keep your lucidity and keep your nerves. Let us not add the problem of psychosis to that of the virus. Panic never helped solve the problems; it increases them. History is rich in collective psychoses.
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