{"id":255,"date":"2020-05-28T08:46:16","date_gmt":"2020-05-28T08:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/covid-19\/?p=255"},"modified":"2020-05-28T08:46:16","modified_gmt":"2020-05-28T08:46:16","slug":"saving-face-and-public-health-policy-during-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/covid-19\/2020\/05\/28\/saving-face-and-public-health-policy-during-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Saving Face\u2019 and Public Health Policy During Covid-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Blog by Arthur Rose and Luna Dolezal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/debate-how-beijing-is-trying-to-save-face-in-the-global-fight-against-covid-19-134996\">Criticisms of the Chinese response<\/a> to the coronavirus pandemic have frequently used \u201csaving face\u201d to explain China\u2019s politicized public health strategy. \u201cSaving face\u201d has also been used to explain <a href=\"https:\/\/thediplomat.com\/2020\/03\/tokyo-2020-avoiding-panic-or-saving-face\/\">Japan\u2019s delayed decision<\/a> to cancel the 2020 Olympics and <a href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/Spotlight\/Belt-and-Road\/Pakistan-moves-to-save-face-as-coronavirus-hits-Belt-and-Road2\">Pakistan\u2019s return to work<\/a> on the Belt and Road project. In the expression, \u201cface\u201d connotes an honorable position that commands respect. To protect, establish or maintain this position is to save face. To lose face indicates a public loss of reputation or respect, often accompanied with public shame or embarrassment. During the Covid-19 crisis, \u201csaving face\u201d, and its corollary \u201closing face\u201d, have emerged as affective drivers that explain the policy decisions of some nation states and organizations.<\/p>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_2393\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2393\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2393\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/files\/2020\/05\/Rose-Arthur-and-Luna-Dolezal-Saving-Face-and-Public-Health-Policy-During-Covid-19.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"719\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2393\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Russo-Japanese War: Red Cross nurses attending war casualties in a Japanese hospital; right, a European (?) man in formal military dress is standing to attention and facing right. Coloured woodcut, ca. 1904. [<a href=\"https:\/\/wellcomecollection.org\/works\/n7wxjk6j\">Wellcome Library no. 565536i<\/a>]<\/figcaption><\/figure>However, an <a href=\"https:\/\/planamag.com\/americas-obsession-with-saving-face-during-the-coronavirus-pandemic\/\">Orientalist tendency<\/a> to associate \u201cface saving\u201d with Asian countries has led to a pseudo division between countries that rationally \u201cfollow the science\u201d and those that allow emotions about reputation to dictate public health policy. When discussing the Tokyo Olympics decision, <a href=\"https:\/\/thediplomat.com\/2020\/03\/tokyo-2020-avoiding-panic-or-saving-face\/\"><em>The Diplomat<\/em><\/a> asserts that \u201closing face\u201d is an \u201cEast Asian cultural concept\u201d that \u201chas no true equivalent in Western culture\u201d. We want to argue that the UK\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hsj.co.uk\/quality-and-performance\/revealed-how-government-changed-the-rules-to-hit-100000-tests-target\/7027544.article\">manic<\/a>\u201d focus on achieving 100,000 SARS-CoV-2 tests a day constitutes just such an equivalent. There is clear evidence of reputational concerns intruding on public health policy in the UK. Here, we offer a reappraisal of the circumstances of the 100,000 tests situation, as a preoccupation with reputation, rather than public health.<\/p>\n<p>On 2 April 2020, the UK Health Secretary, Matt Hancock, outlined a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/health-secretary-sets-out-plan-to-carry-out-100000-coronavirus-tests-a-day\">five-pillar testing plan<\/a>\u201d, with the goal of achieving 100,000 tests a day by the end of April. The goal, already a revision on an earlier target of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2020\/apr\/03\/coronavirus-testing-in-uk-timeline-of-ministers-mixed-messages\">250,000 tests a day<\/a> set by the UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, became a central feature of the government\u2019s daily briefings. The number of daily tests was enumerated alongside figures of the infected and the deceased. It became a point of fixation, detracting from both the deaths and the government\u2019s continuing failure to source adequate amounts of PPE. On 1 May, Hancock announced, with audible emotion, that the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-52508836\">audacious<\/a>\u201d target had been reached with 122,347 tests carried out on 30 April. The figure was immediately set upon by journalists, as John Newton, Director of Health Improvement for Public Health England, acknowledged that it included more than 39,000 testing kits that had only been mailed on the 30th. This led to an <a href=\"https:\/\/fullfact.org\/health\/coronavirus-100k-tests\/\">urgent debate<\/a> over whether the government had achieved this goal only by redefining the protocol for counting tests. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hsj.co.uk\/quality-and-performance\/revealed-how-government-changed-the-rules-to-hit-100000-tests-target\/7027544.article\"><em>Health Service Journal<\/em><\/a> reported that efforts to achieve the goal were \u201cmanic\u201d and that Matt Hancock was \u201cobsessed\u201d with reaching the target. What had been \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/01\/ministers-accused-of-changing-covid-19-test-tally-to-hit-100000-goal\">a stretching, ambitious goal<\/a>\u201d aimed at having \u201ca galvanising effect\u201d, threatened to be a personal and political blow for Hancock and a national embarrassment for Johnson\u2019s government.<\/p>\n<p>The goal of testing 100,000 people is difficult to reconcile with the UK government\u2019s mantra that they are \u201cfollowing the science\u201d when determining public health measures. Experts suggested there was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/health-51943612\">no clear reasoning<\/a> for that particular number of tests. Nor does the number make much sense without other measures, such as reliable contact tracing and isolation. However, repeatedly invoking the idea that politicians are fastidiously \u201cfollowing the science\u201d, lends a rational and impartial view to the measures that are being taken. As Jana Bacevic has <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.lse.ac.uk\/impactofsocialsciences\/2020\/04\/27\/science-in-inaction-the-shifting-priorities-of-the-uk-governments-response-to-covid-19-highlights-the-need-for-publicly-accountable-expert-advice\/\">argued<\/a>, there is no singular \u2018science\u2019: scientific theories and hypotheses are necessarily based on interpretation, often ideologically loaded and epistemically biased. The \u2018science\u2019 is regularly contested. In the case of Covid-19, the \u2018science\u2019 is patchy: data is sparse and disease modelling is standing in for hard and fast facts. Moreover, political emphasis on the 100,000 tests a day target, and the relative downplaying of the PPE shortages and comparatively high death tolls, suggest \u2018following the science\u2019 is hardly the whole story. It seems reasonable to be worried that concerns with political reputation management and \u2018saving face\u2019 are overriding a more scientifically-grounded public health strategy.<\/p>\n<p>The persistent orientalising of the idea of \u201csaving face\u201d derives in part from an culturally essentialist view on shame popularised by the cultural anthropologist Ruth Benedict in her 1946 book <em>The Chrysanthemum and the Sword<\/em>, which differentiated cultures according to the prevalent use of either shame or guilt in ensuring social order and conformity. Whereas Western Europe and America relied on a sense of guilt, or one\u2019s \u2018conscience\u2019, as an internal sanction, the use of shame, Benedict argued, was characteristic of Eastern cultures where a baser fear of reputation damage kept people in line. Benedict\u2019s dichotomy has long been disputed, but it periodically reemerges as a racist trope in support of cultural essentialism. Western face saving seems altogether present in the fear of reputation damage that pervades the rhetoric of the UK\u2019s daily briefings, from the repeated avowals of confidence in the UK\u2019s \u201cworld-leading scientists\u201d and the NHS\u2019s continued resilience to the insistence that the UK won\u2019t be \u201cthe worst hit country in Europe\u201d. Perhaps such face saving rhetoric is useful when it comes to mobilizing a country and boosting public morale. We question its efficacy, however, when it dictates political interventions in public health policy.<\/p>\n<p>This work was supported by the Wellcome Trust [217879\/Z\/19\/Z].<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Arthur Rose is a Vice Chancellor Fellow at the University of Bristol. He is currently completing a book titled Asbestos: The Last Modernist Object. Twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/eclecticpneumas\">@eclecticpneumas<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Luna Dolezal is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy and Medical Humanities at the University of Exeter. She is the PI on the \u201cShame and Medicine\u201d project funded by the Wellcome Trust. Twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lunadolezal\">@lunadolezal<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blog by Arthur Rose and Luna Dolezal Criticisms of the Chinese response to the coronavirus pandemic have frequently used \u201csaving face\u201d to explain China\u2019s politicized public health strategy. \u201cSaving face\u201d has also been used to explain Japan\u2019s delayed decision to cancel the 2020 Olympics and Pakistan\u2019s return to work on the Belt and Road project. 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