A keen observer of French political life and regular contributor to the FigaroVox, Maxime Tandonnet has notably published
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In the coming months, only the "vaccinated" and holders of a "health pass" will, from what we understand, access to cafes, restaurants, shopping centers, public transport, not to mention obviously shows and events. sporting events. Of course, vaccination is not made compulsory, but part of the population, the “unvaccinated”, will be excluded from social life. On the whole, this discriminating formula seems to be favorably received in the country. France is in the process of creating a two-speed society between the “vaccinated” and the “non-vaccinated” deprived of the right to a normal social life, or even the right to liberty.
Certainly, as the supporters of this formula recall, anyone has the possibility of being vaccinated! However, in fact, part of the country, even a minority, traumatized by the memory of major medical scandals, is more afraid of vaccination than of Covid-19. Are some fears less respectable than others? Should we point the finger at a new category of French, the yellow vests of the vaccine? Designate them as scapegoats and outcasts of the misfortunes of French society? Will the threat of exclusion (from economic and social life) be more effective than work of persuasion and explanation?
The liberticidal decisions and the return of Absurdistan result from nothing other than the choice of political power which has proved their long-term ineffectiveness and their harmfulness both economically and socially.
Maxime Tandonnet
What are the objective elements making it possible to overturn all the foundations of French society by destroying with the back of a hand the principles of freedom and equality? Is the Delta variant a new black plague that would mow down millions of people in its path? The British example shows, on the contrary, that the resumption of the epidemic does not lead to an increase in the number of deaths. In France, the vast majority of elderly or co-morbid people are already vaccinated. The risk of a resumption of saturation of hospitals and of a massacre therefore seems reduced - as long as the vaccine is effective. A kind of fetishism around the number of contaminations (and its political impact) seems to be at the source of these decisions.
The official speech claims the two tier diet - vaccinated, unvaccinated - will prevent further lockdowns or curfews.
But the liberticidal decisions and the return of Absurdistan result from nothing other than the choice of political power which has proved their long-term ineffectiveness and their harmfulness both economically and socially. .
Apart from these political choices, France has never been doomed by a sort of inevitability to confinements or to curfews.
Moreover, some countries which have made less freedom-killing choices than those of France (the Netherlands, Sweden, Germany, Denmark), have fewer deaths per million inhabitants.
France is therefore breaking with the fundamental principles of equality and freedom under the impact of panic.
Maxime Tandonnet
France is therefore breaking with the fundamental principles of equality and freedom under the impact of panic.
But it is also moving away from the principle of brotherhood.
Indeed, how do the designers of the new device envisage its implementation: restaurant owners, traders, cinemas or public transport staff (bus drivers), will they be mandated to control the situation on a case-by-case basis. health pass or vaccination certificate?
Will they thus transform themselves into auxiliaries of the public power to control the population?
Can we imagine the reactions, the risk of conflicts and dramas?
The country is fractured as it has rarely fractured. The climate is highly flammable. All in all, a large part of satisfied France is currently in communion in the jubilation around the announced measures and approves the "iron hand" which carries them. Another suffers in her flesh. With some exceptions, it is not necessarily "anti-tax" or "conspirator" as the cartoon wants. She suffers in her flesh from the disproportion between the reality of an epidemic - which is not the Black Death - and the consequences for the country of the destruction of its model of equality, freedom and fraternity.