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Christian Jouret

Former international civil servant

Virus, Dance of Death and Social Control Christian Jouret · May 2020 Covid-19 is a godsend for the media, monopolising the news. But we seem to forget that there have been pandemics throughout history and that political regimes have always taken advantage of them to tighten their grip on society.
In times of the plague, smallpox, cholera, or Spanish flu, (...)
How Religious Beliefs Have Responded to the Challenge of Covid-19 Christian Jouret · April 2020 For several weeks now, many of us have wondered why certain religious groups, certain communities are reluctant to comply with the sanitary rules which a majority of the peoples of the world regard as indispensable to stop the spread of Covid-19. How can this be explained?
In the West, the (...)