"For years, scholars have warned decision-makers: 'Pandemics are real threats to humanity "but decision-makers always find themselves unprepared and people do not follow them". Cosi 'wrote in an article published by Eurispes, Pasquale Preziosa already head ofair Force and today President of the Security Observatory. "What is systematically surprising- Precious Precious - it is the unpreparedness of countries to face disastrous events, both of a calamitous nature and of a medical nature. The reason for this lack of preparation is to be found in the ongoing strategic competition between countries, which has given a low priority to the level of risk in the critical sectors of natural / health disasters.". This is, General Preziosa emphasizes, "the world of complexity', where the decision maker, the contact network and communication play a decisive role in the management of events: being lacking, even in one of these sectors, means losing the game ”.
Another fundamental element is the social behavior. "Cognitive sciences- adds Preziosa- they taught us that the mind does not work in the abstract, but in continuous reference to a structure of beliefs that it helps to modify on the basis of the experiences made, whose 'rational' component is only one of the many. Acting on social perception is the key to the problem. It is important that people are able to perceive the correctness of the directive action, to place trust in the hands of the decision-maker: the people are entrusting their safety in the hands of the decision-makers. In democratic countries, the role of the law ensures that the country does not step back from the level of civilization it has reached; every decision-making action must also go in this direction, to ensure the achievement of the objectives with minimum damage. In other countries, institutions follow different and stricter rules. In emergencies and without previous preparation, the only Institutions devoted to emergency management are those already organized for security and defense operations which in coordination with Civil Protection organizations, which for budgetary needs have been emptied of capacity over time , must assume centralized leadership for the management of the epidemic ”.