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Epidemic journal, by Christian LehmanndossierChristian Lehmann is a doctor and writer. For “Liberation” he regularly chronicles a society stricken by the coronavirus. Today he denounces the double standards between the powerful and the others.
Sometimes it’s a comet that crashes to earth (Deep Impact, Don’t look up). Sometimes it’s neutrino bombardment coupled with a solar flare that causes earthquakes (2012), sometimes glaciation that covers the earth’s crust with a mantle of snow in which nothing can survive (Snowpiercer). It’s become a cliché of many disaster movies: as disaster approaches, arcs are built into which the powerful – politicians, billionaires – rush, a few scientists, and a handful of proletarians who are drawn by lot or chosen for their erotic potential. Because you might be rich, you need to know how to have fun and the pipes don’t clog themselves.
Every year, the Davos Forum in Switzerland brings together heads of state, company captains, unbridled financiers, investors, more or less crazy economists, celebrities and Jacques Attali… the elite of the planet. After two years of pandemic-related cancellations, the powerful are rallying