The Minister of Health Olivier Véran castigated the slogans “
sometimes extremely dubious, even completely filthy
”, of anti-
vaccination
and anti-health pass protesters, calling on them to face “
the reality
” of the hundreds of unvaccinated hospitalized people.
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“
You have people who are mobilizing against vaccination, which we talk about a lot and in my opinion too much.
You have 200,000 people who demonstrated on a Saturday to say that they did not want the vaccine with extremely colorful placards and sometimes extremely dubious, even completely filthy reasons,
”he declared Thursday evening August 12 to the press. during a visit to the Martinique University Hospital in Fort-de-France.
The minister was alluding to anti-Semitic slogans inscribed on placards during the latest anti-health pass and vaccination rallies.
A teacher was arrested for brandishing one in a demonstration in Metz in early August.
She will be tried for "
public provocation to racial hatred
" on September 8.
Many young patients hospitalized
Olivier Véran estimated that on the contrary, it would be necessary to "
talk more
" about "
two or three times as many people
" who in the same day "line up
to be vaccinated
".
He called for questions: "
How will we look at the collective attitude that we will have had during this period of the Covid?
While hospitals are filling up, we are still wondering whether we wait before going to be vaccinated?
“, He criticized.
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He argued that many patients hospitalized at the CHU of Fort-de-France are young unvaccinated, sometimes without comorbidities, "
in good health a few days ago
", but "
today on the stomach intubated ventilated in the coma in intensive care units
”. So "
I say to people who are wondering
"
come
"
. Come, ask to see the health situation as it is, ask the patients who are in stretchers in the corridors and in the intensive care units (...) Come and look reality in the face and then dare to look at the populations by saying + You should not be vaccinated, there would be doubts. +
"
“
The time is no longer for doubt. It has been a long time since the doubts were raised, there are months and months of decline on these vaccines, billions of humans who have been vaccinated, you must get started,
”he urged. Calls for a fourth Saturday of demonstrations against the health pass and anti-Covid vaccination were launched throughout France. The mobilization has continued to progress every Saturday, reaching 237,000 people on August 7 according to the Ministry of the Interior.
