The president of the pro-Frexit UPR (Popular Republican Union) party François Asselineau announced Friday July 30 to be positive for Covid-19, preventing him from demonstrating on Saturday in Paris against the health pass, which he considers "
absurd, unfair and totally liberticide
”.
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"
I tested positive for Covid-19 on Monday
" after having started to have "body
aches, fever and cough during the day on Sunday
", explained the presidential candidate of 2022 (0, 92% of the vote in 2017) in a video posted on his party's website.
François Asselineau recounted having since obtained ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine, “
made in China
”, “
treatments that Messrs Véran and Macron forbid the French but that they are the first to take
”.
According to him, the effect of these drugs made it possible to lower his temperature in a few days, from "
38-39 ° C (...) to 37.5 ° C
".
Asselineau will be vaccinated "if necessary and when he has" the choice of vaccine
Several personalities "
covido-skeptics
", including Francis Lalanne, believe that hydroxychloroquine, ivermectin or azithromycin can cure
Covid-19
"
very quickly
" - an assertion contradicted by the WHO and several scientific studies to this effect. Stadium.
"
The Covid is a disease that looks like a fairly mild flu
", once again assured François Asselineau, repeating that, for him, "
we have enormously inflated the severity of this Delta variant
".
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François Asselineau, 63, assured that he will be vaccinated "
if necessary, when the time comes, when he has
" the choice with the Russian, Chinese and French vaccine but says he does not wish to be "
a guinea pig
" with the approved serums in the European Union. "
Everyone must think in their soul and conscience what they want on their own body knowing that there are still a lot of uncertainties about all these vaccines,
" he said.
François Asselineau confirmed that he could therefore "
not participate
" in the events planned for Saturday in Paris against the extension of the health pass and the compulsory vaccination of certain professions.
He called on the French "
to take to the streets to demonstrate (...) for the free choice of vaccines and above all against the health past, which is absurd, unfair and totally freedom-killing.
"
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More than 150,000 demonstrators are expected across the country, including more than 10,000 in Paris, according to the authorities.
Two out of three French people are in favor of the health pass and compulsory vaccination.
In addition, 23% say they support this movement, according to two recent polls.