Remember in August last year, influenza A was the center of a vast media campaign. The tension would crescendo to warn the good people. All did not die but many would be affected. The autumn and winter would be tragically pandemic, experts explained on all screens and length of columns. Mass vaccination and stocks of masks required. And then the state to finance large-scale instruments of salvation. Today, the Parliament takes stock of what has become a business, if not a scandal. The report of the Senate inquiry and critical in recent days, the roles respective WHO, government labs and experts. It was the least he can do.
The problem is not in fact largely the "inflexibility" complained the health plan. It is precisely this mania planner who is involved, and the perverse idea of common good that it manifest this fact in the most diverse forms. But we know, such a report, giving notice of a cog in the great machine that, in the era of secular Providence watches over the security and peace of mankind, can not exceed the mere mention of the malfunction other machinery. It can not therefore surprised if, in this classic exercise of parliamentary remonstrances, the editors offer their blind a particular variant of the clown spirit. In saying that ultimately "expertise may not only be a duty or honor for the scientists, it must be recognized as a true service to the community, and as such be valued."
Cheers experts, in fact! Measure the extent to which this statement is emblematic. For, according to the headlong rush generally followed, the function of these virtuosos of small system is highly central to the well of the community in a world where the technical procedures of all kinds will have to compensate the universal distrust of the next. Fewer priests, most of technicians. Of course, the spirit of genuine service, that Christian love in action, is too uncertain, too vague in terms of efficiency. Opposite, there is now a long time that the technique has been recognized beyond its legitimate role in improving conditions of life, a redemptive mission to reach the free end in human relations. Marx claimed that aim a mechanistic process already underway in his time. The Liberal Attali claims it also a time when everyone can measure progress. This free, this spirit of giving also advocated by traditional civilizations and even more by Christ, are so obscure and obstinately sought through a different path than the ancient or Christian virtues. The process without a subject instead of saving, "I am the way, the truth and the life" (John 14, 6-14).
This scientistic theology should smile in the light of the degree of accuracy in the results which may send technicians from the system. Thus, in the case of influenza A, due to a variety of factors, including rigid procedures, financial interests and scientific speculations contained in the foreground, "the vaccine strategy," according to the terms of the report has could change its course despite new information on the reality of the pandemic risk. This episode is erected and in health fable of our time, instructive tale, where for several months, came to animate an entire menagerie. We will not forget the place that held such as donkeys and foxes, but also monkeys, always gifted compulsive imitation, the most numerous.
Lawrence Tollinier
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