Can Omicron make us more humble? Humility is a virtue less contagious than excess optimism or denial of reality at this time of year when the desire for happiness, in consumerist sauce, becomes an injunction.
The WHO recommended offering the third dose only to people at risk. And what are the well-to-do countries doing? They decide to vaccinate all adults 18 years of age and over and the time from the second dose is lowered not to five months, but to three, ignoring the recommendations of Pfizer and Moderna. Isn’t that exaggerated?
What will be the duration of the immunity of this booster dose, which may be administered too quickly? Would it not have been enough to reduce the delay since the second dose to five months? No, we must quickly reassure the general population. And will follow a fourth dose? Meanwhile in Africa, India …
For us, the tight-knit Quebecers, the shock should not result from this other holiday season considered atypical, but from this alarming fragility of our health system. We did not want to give up doing feasting, celebrating at twenty or ten, we continue to wish left and right happy Holidays as if nothing had happened.
We would have thought we were witnessing, through the media, the accentuation of the mad rush of desires to be satisfied, at all costs, within the sentimental crowd, while a collective fiasco awaits us, bearer of lessons. Because fiasco, there will be, by this umpteenth reduction in the care to be provided, a mission inherited by caregivers who are more exhausted and stressed than ever. And what about the Legault and Dubé mine?
In the effervescence of December, against the backdrop of a Shakespearean dilemma, whether to celebrate together or not, we do not even bother to take care of our vows at such an end of the year. Because it will go rather badly before getting better. You have to tell yourself to help yourself get through the ordeal, right? To wish each other good health for 2022 is to show an excess of optimism, given the cracks which are widening, of the first line in the hospital, without forgetting the CHSLDs.
But this fiasco and this humiliating Omicron, it’s a safe bet that the rich countries will free themselves better than elsewhere on our planet. As for the young COVID generation whose mental health is strained, we must put into perspective when we think of the famine raging in Afghanistan and the young people who no longer have a future there.