Mortality & Hydroxychloroquine; Politics & Pandemic: Strange liaisons lead to strange correlations
H Elbazidi, O Erraih
New Microbes and New Infections, doi:10.1016/j.nmni.2020.100749
In the wake of the Covid-19 phenomenon, a new world economic order is emerging. This upheaval is unprecedented in the collective memory with as a result, profound social changes. The first sign appears in human behaviour, lucidity is increasingly an elite sport that few people practice. This leaves more and more room for conformism, the illusion of free will, and the irrational and impulsive crowd reasoning that was exploited during this pandemic by politicians and pharmaceutical industries. Strong and strange correlations result, on which we shed light in this work and that links the prescription of hydroxychloroquine, the behaviour of populations, their political prejudices, and their fatality rates. The urgency imposes rigid communication between rulers and governed. The pandemic brings to light the contradictions of this liaison.
Conflict of interest None declared. [
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