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Health pass: what consequences for democracy?

2021-07-28T13:32:02.507Z


FIGAROVOX / TRIBUNE.- Professor of medical ethics Emmanuel Hirsch examines and compares the bioethical issues of compulsory vaccination and those of refusal of vaccination.


Director of the Ethics Research Department, University of Paris-Saclay, Emmanuel Hirsch is the author of

A confined democracy, ethics whatever costs

, Éditions Erès.

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There is nothing democratic about a pandemic.

What can be is our mobilization to curb it.

No one knows to this day what will be the evolution of the pandemic.

It was unwise to consider a health break this summer, even if the acceptability of the company over the long term is a given that determines political strategy.

This is paradoxically because we have the privilege of having in our country preventive vaccines which on July 21, 2021 the

NEJM (New England Journal of Medicine

) demonstrates the effectiveness, including on the Delta variant, that is aroused in terms of individual freedom to choose whether or not to be vaccinated.

What would our fundamental freedoms be if we were not offered this remedy, as is the case in low- and middle-income countries?

Nowadays,

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Source: lefigaro

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