International Journal on Criminology
Now is the time to face the crisis . After the obligation of confinement , what is at stake is the pedagogy of deconfinement . The most studied and most accepted models throughout the world outline the contours of this process .
The following sketch emerges :
• The peak of the pandemic is followed by a plateau period that is essentially the result of the effects of successful containment . The flow of hospitalized patients is reduced , but the stock remains at a high level . When the decrease in the number of severe cases reaches a significant level , it is necessary to set up a tool for chronological ( return to the point where it all began ), geographical ( on the basis of coherent territories of a manageable size ), virological , and even , if possible , serological ( but only with tests that make it possible to identify those who are relatively immune , those who are asymptomatic , those who have recovered , and those who are still vulnerable ) deconfinement .
• Once these tests have been carried out on the largest possible part of the population concerned in a delimited territory , a progressive deconfinement is possible on the condition that masks and protective gestures ( known as barriers ) are consistently worn over the long term , that reception in public and commercial spaces is reorganized , and that the occupancy rate in public transport and collective and convivial places is reduced .
• All this will take place while awaiting the hypothetical arrival of a treatment and a vaccine and therefore getting used to a pandemic that lasts and survives for a long time .
These measures will also have a positive impact on seasonal influenza , which could finally be considered to be a serious and dangerous disease that must be fought against , causing thousands of deaths every year in general indifference .
Hence the urgent need to rediscover what the ethics of responsibility means . The virus does not spread by itself : it is individuals who spread it . It is therefore up to us to make a conscious choice . Either encourage the epidemic , washing our hands of it in the manner of Pontius Pilate and thus leaving the other to die , or fight the epidemic by washing our hands in order to protect the other . In other words , in practice , organize resistance , systematize precautions , and move to targeted confinement and generalized testing in order to ensure together the protection of all by all .
Breaking the chains of transmission is the only real way out of the health crisis . Aftershocks , which are very likely to occur as long as a large part of the population remains vulnerable , will undoubtedly require localized reconfinements of lesser intensity . The pandemic wave will thus be replaced by a multiplication of clusters , or targeted and sporadic “ outbreaks ,” which will be easier to control if several conditions are met . It is here , as long as they are available and accessible ,
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