François Asselineau, who has continued to minimize the extent of the health crisis and the devastation of the epidemic for a year and a half, is positive for Covid-19.
As a direct consequence, the president of the pro-Frexit UPR (Popular Republican Union) party will not be able to demonstrate on Saturday in Paris against the health pass, which he considers "absurd, unfair and totally liberticidal".
"I tested positive for Covid-19 on Monday" after having started to have "body aches, fever and coughed during the day on Sunday," the 2022 presidential candidate explained on Friday ( 0.92% of the vote in 2017) in a video posted on his party's website.
🎥 TRANSPARENCY INFO
▪️I have tested positive for # COVID19 and am required to stay at home for 10 days.
▪️ Unfortunately, I will not be able to participate personally in tomorrow's events.
▪️My experience with #ivermectin has been very positive.https: //t.co/LqP90sGuvw
- François Asselineau (@UPR_Asselineau) July 30, 2021
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", false information of which he provides no proof.
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”.
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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.
He will be vaccinated "if necessary, when the time comes"
"The Covid is a disease that looks like a fairly mild flu," Asselineau once again said, repeating that, for him, "we have enormously inflated the severity of this Delta variant". Unvaccinated, Asselineau, 63, assured that he would be vaccinated "if necessary, when the time comes", when he will have "the choice with the Russian, Chinese, French vaccine", but says he does not wish to be "a guinea pig »With sera approved 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 especially against the health pass, (which is) absurd, unfair and totally liberticide.
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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.
