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Mathieu Laine: "Pitfalls and opportunities of the world according to the coronavirus"

2020-03-31T16:03:55.344Z


CHRONICLE - Thanks to an instinct for survival, inventiveness and momentum of creation will succeed the pandemic, on condition that it does not deify the State as our nation too willingly does, argues the columnist *.


In these tragic times when we are fighting against an invisible evil and we mourn our dead, measuring in our flesh the sometimes forgotten importance of the primacy of freedom, the time has come to think of our tomorrows. At that time, a first trap will stretch our arms: the lasting withdrawal into ourselves. Because many people associate the epidemic with globalization, the temptation will be great to keep our borders closed and our shutters lowered on the doorstep of otherness.

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Our world was already going straight ahead, yielding to the injunctions of fear, anger and envy while denying the objective contributions of the circulation of goods, people and knowledge. This would be a major error. If the crown virus has become a global phenomenon, it is because man, this social being living with exchanges and cooperation, populates the world. However, Codiv-19 is not a disease of globalization. Speeding up travel and reducing planetary distances

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Source: lefigaro

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