Toward Scientocracy
Veronika ?uffová-Kun?ová
Content, sense, law and sensibility with a zest of creativity.
The government adopted a new set of measures to combat pandemics.
Altogether, they seem more reasonable and drilled down than ever. Allegedly, due to the fact, the scientists were implicated.
The situation deteriorated, and we supposedly lead the list with the victim toll per million citizens (circa 5,5 million).
Though, I have read that it is phoney. It will depend on the math applied. And the numbers filed. Cases pretty underreported, given that each day the toll of new infections in Slovakia soars up to 8 000, and round 100 people perish and still what I find daily in the Worldometer are just moderate infection rates.
We are not the only one that skews the charts.
There are Potemkins on a much larger scale. Millions unreported, way of reporting death "with Covid" and "on Covid" disparate, and Ag tests positive left out. Ooops... has been noticed lately.
That said, some celebrate the passage from autocracy to a scientocracy... and call that "paradigm shift" an achievement.
Before pandemics, a consensus of a large college of doctors and epidemiologists and the government has rarely been sought.
Sorting out the guerilla mode, it becomes a new normal.
Merging of science and a ...cracy could be tricky.
Look at the space exploration contest.
Best, if that what emerges is for real democracy, not a kleptocracy, lobbied through corporations, by hook and by crook welling the profit out of the wretchedness of others.
Despite many advocating for it, scientocracy could lead to big chaos.
I would take the governmental action in recent time more for a desperate ad-lib, than the autocracy. In this neighbourhood.
To show off who is responsible, and that He or She is, indeed. They worry. To steer, the MBA is useless.
Management of pandemics became rocket science.
Paradoxically, they swear being severally accountable for a case of force majeure when we omit wilful intent and conspiracy. Despite ongoing efforts to exculpate the Chinese for the pandemics, the number of people believing in the plot ever larger. They understand that the accountable omitted something serious from scratch.
A human dimension. Not only the interests of small and medium-sized companies whereby all they get are reassurances, altogether more warranties than bulk cash, at least in the EU.
But also the human rights of individuals, whether employed, freelance or busy at home.
Fear resurfaces once a notable constitutional petition or early elections come upon the tapis and the interrogation of a personal failure and accountability to the spotlight; quickly, the idea of the covid-negative certificates to sort out in the nature withdrawn; covid automat put in place, and a fragile governmental unity once again assumed.
Those agile against overboard interferences to liberties and fundamental rights are mostly associations and political opponents.
But why national human rights institutions lag?
In the news, they had utterly subsided.
Slovak National Center for Human Rights?
Ombudsman?
Office for Personal Data Protection? Missing a chair for ten successive months; for what then to have one, if personal covid data leak on a permanent base and one must have got habituated to it.
Shame.
I call for a humanocracy.
Again.