“It’s not the right time” to lift the vaccine pass and the wearing of a mask, according to a doctor who denounces “electoral populism”

“It’s not the right time” to lift the vaccination pass and the wearing of a mask according to Michaël Rochoy, general practitioner in Outreau and co-founder of the “Stop-Postillons” collective. For him, Jean Castex’s announcements on Thursday March 3 on the reduction of measures to fight against Covid-19, “it’s electoral populism to please people”.

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The Prime Minister explained on TF1 that the vaccine pass will be suspended from Monday March 14 wherever it applies. Jean Castex also announced the end of the mandatory mask indoors, on this same date, except in transport and health facilities. However, the vaccination obligation continues to apply for caregivers. “It’s not the right time”protests Dr. Rochoy. “The vaccination pass is not a prevention to limit the infection, it is a prevention to limit the serious formshe hammers.

“What is effective in limiting indoor contamination is the mask, ventilation, aeration, the limitation of mixing by teleworking.”

Michaël Rochoy, general practitioner in Outreau

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But for this doctor, the end of the mask at work and at school in particular, “it is electoral populism to please people. From a health point of view, it is of no interest.. Michaël Rochoy is worried: “There’s no way that removing the mask won’t have a wave coming.”

This general practitioner co-founder of the “Stop-Postillons” collective is annoyed : “People will wear the mask in transport, then go to work and take it off, share the virus between them. They will put the mask back on in transport so that they won’t contaminate strangers, then they will bring the virus back. at home, infecting the children. The children will infect the students, who will infect their own parents… This is how the epidemic has worked since the beginning.

The doctor recalls that the Omicron variant made “14,000 dead in two months”, despite the measures in force. He also indicates that questions arise regarding immunocompromised people. “They will have to wear an FFP2 mask”which in his view raises the problem of “medical secrecy”.


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