Despite its low lethality, the Covid-19 still poses a serious problem for us: this respiratory pathology is very contagious; in 5% of cases, it creates suffocation, which can lead to saturation of the intensive care and intensive care hospital services. While waiting for the vaccine, we will therefore have to keep our “barrier gestures”, or even wear masks in confined spaces.
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But to the threat of seeing our hospital system overwhelmed comes another risk: that of a new barbarism in the way we look at our old people. We no longer use the beautiful word of old people, because of our linguistic addiction to euphemisms.
In an editorial in Le Figaro of August 25, 2003, entitled "Barbarie française" and written during the summer heat wave that killed 15,000 people in two weeks, I had already pointed out the drift of an individualistic and selfish society, where many families had abandoned their parents in solitude, both the priority
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