They are quadra, sexa, septuagenarian, do not live in the same region, but share one thing in common: the impossibility of being vaccinated.
Julien, 41 years old: "A sword of Damocles above his head"
His mistake: to have wanted to do too well.
On January 18, due to a new kidney received two years earlier, Julien Boisse, 41, became a priority for vaccination.
Officially, "vulnerable patient at very high risk" of having a severe form of Covid-19.
The Lille resident who works in insurance immediately went to see his doctor to obtain a certificate.
“I was wrong to do things in order, he breathes.
When I called the vaccination centers on the morning of the 19th, all the appointments were made.
Since then, I phone again and again:
Sorry, no more space
!
"
On December 27, 2018, Santa Claus brought Julien the kidney that would save him a life of dialysis, the exhausting fatigue of everyday life and the relief of polycystosis which was slowly destroying his organ.
Other side of the coin Covid: being transplanted multiplies by five its risk of hospitalization if the virus attacks it, by seven its risk of death.
"I've been living in a cloister and working from home for a year, my wife and I don't see anyone," he explains, barely allowing himself a few walks along the Deûle Canal or in the forests of Valenciennes.
So the vaccine is, he says, his “ray of hope”.
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“I have a Damocles sword above my head.
Cynically, I find it hard to understand why I can not get vaccinated when 66-year-old former presidents without comorbidity arrive
(Editor's note: an allusion to Nicolas Sarkozy)
.
The privileges shock me.
Worse, run into me.
"
Today, Julien does not rule out seeking the providential dose in another region.
A patient he knows was vaccinated in Tours.
750 km from Lille ...
Jocelyne, 72 years old: "I fit into all of them and into no boxes at the same time"
When her 87-year-old neighbor found herself in the water, without an appointment, Jocelyne stopped looking for her.
No need to continue to exhaust yourself.
She, the 72-year-old girl, who can not claim either the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines (reserved for over 75s), or the AstraZeneca (under 65).
"I enter both in all and in no box", she sums up.
None, in this “cursed” age gap, without a precise schedule for accessing doses.
All of them, because the retired dynamic of the trade is overweight, diabetic, carrying a blood disease and in remission from lung cancer.
Not to mention that she lives 15 km from Metz, in Moselle, the temple of the Brazilian and South African variants.
In the high school of Clémence, his granddaughter, eleven classes were closed.
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"If with all this, I catch the Covid and I get out of it, it's really that we are watching over me," she half-jokes.
Because Jocelyne "ends" being too wisely at home.
His hope: that the vaccine from the Johnson & Johnson laboratory is validated.
“I hope that sped up the machine,” she says.
Otherwise, I risk being vaccinated… when the epidemic is over.
"
Jean-Luc, 68 years old: "I am on the waiting list of my hospital"
BCG, received young, "very bad reaction".
The army's host of vaccines, “not supported.
"Anti-tetanus before a trip to Africa," no better.
»Definitely, Jean-Luc and vaccines do not mix.
But at 68 years old, suffering from metastatic digestive cancer and cured of a precedent of the lymphatic system, the Val-de-Marne retiree is determined to reach out to receive the Covid dose.
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"My oncologist has insisted a lot on the need, I have no choice", he says.
"We are not going to play the irreducible Gauls anti-vaccine, the risk for him is too immense if he catches this filthy virus", adds his wife Martine.
Resigned, ready, but… “There is no dose, so I'm on my hospital waiting list.
So, I am waiting!
What a paradox, ”notes the gardening enthusiast, between annoyance and relief.
“That said, it gives me a few weeks to verify that there are really no side effects,” he smiles.