Solidarity is for other people: identifying derelictions of solidarity in responses to COVID-19
Solidarity is for other people: identifying derelictions of solidarity in responses to COVID-19
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DOI：
10.1136/medethics-2020-106522
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发表时间：
2021-02-01
影响因子：
4.1
通讯作者：
West-Oram, Peter
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作者：
West-Oram, Peter
团结一致对有效提供医疗服务的作用和重要性是长期激烈辩论的主题，COVID-19疫情更是加剧了这一争论。各国当局以各种方式要求、甚至指示我们大家团结一致，共同应对当前的危机。在正常情况下，个人可以通过多种方式在公共卫生方面与同胞团结一致，包括纳税资助福利国家倡议，以及在生病时避免他人。虽然全世界都在大力参与团结，但也有个别代理人和政府拒绝和未能参与团结的引人注目的例子。在本文中，我检查的后果，这些失败的参考行动，目前的英国政府，未能提供一个有效的应对危机。这种失败有效地将应对危机的责任转移到了那些更容易受到感染的人身上，而他们对此无能为力。我认为，这种应对措施代表了对公共卫生危机的管理不善，以及对重要的民主和平等主义规范和价值观的拒绝。
The role and importance of solidarity for effective health provision is the subject of lengthy and heated debate which has been thrown into even sharper relief by the COVID-19 pandemic. In various ways, and by various authorities we have all been asked, even instructed, to engage in solidarity with one another in order to collectively respond to the current crisis. Under normal circumstances, individuals can engage in solidarity with their compatriots in the context of public health provision in a number of ways, including paying taxes which fund welfare state initiatives, and avoiding others when ill. While there has been significant engagement in solidarity worldwide, there have also been high profile examples of refusals and failures to engage in solidarity, both by individual agents, and governments. In this paper I examine the consequence of these failures with reference to the actions of the current British government, which has failed to deliver an effective response to the crisis. This failure has effectively devolved responsibility for responding to the crisis to people who are simultaneously more vulnerable to infection, and less able to do anything about it. I argue that such responses represent mismanagement of a public health crisis, and a rejection of important democratic and egalitarian norms and values.