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There is no other solution ... I would like people who are against vaccines and against all these measures to have had the chance or the misfortune to go through the experience that I had me and that my brother had.
"Invited on Radio Classique Tuesday to talk about his book
Without rancor and without restraint
, Frédéric Mitterrand, hospitalized in January after having contracted the covid, took the opportunity to pin all the reluctant to health measures and"
antivax
".
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There is no more poliomelitis, no more measles epidemic because we are vaccinated, it has completely become commonplace.
From a certain point on, measures must be taken which are not at all attacks on freedom but ways of protecting freedoms.
Illness is not freedom, it is an attack on freedom,
”he said.
The obligation to present a health pass in theaters and cinemas is obviously a sensitive subject for the former Minister of Culture of Nicolas Sarkozy. The new regulations desired by the government of Jean Castex, voted last night by the National Assembly, seem essential to him. The disease, which affected him at the beginning of the year, made him feel the danger of the coronavirus and the need to protect himself from it by all means: "
We came close to death, my brother and I.
Three weeks of intensive care at the Pitié Salpêtrière where we were admirably treated.
When we went through that, when we saw in the night, where we still feel quite alone when we are so sick, when we saw people in the hallway that we were taking to the morgue.
When we see that, we have another way of looking at things.
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Frédéric Mitterrand is more than ever in empathy with those who fear the spread of the virus and its new delta variant.
He reaffirmed it: “
I can tell you that we have another way of looking at things.
And I think of all the people who have relatives who are sick, who are worried and well those, I can tell you, they do not criticize the measures taken by the government.
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Figaro Live: Frédéric Mitterrand on Radio Classique
