Since this Saturday, January 15, the health pass is conditioned on a complete vaccination schedule with three booster doses. It is also possible, always for a few days before the introduction of the vaccination pass, to have a test valid for 24 hours. But from today, a few hundred thousand French people who are not up to date with their booster doses are losing their health pass. He is suspended.
This is based on figures put forward this week by Olivier Véran, the Minister of Health. Guest of France Info, he pointed out that he had an estimate roughly “between 500 and 700,000 who, Monday, January 10, had not yet received their reminder. But among those 500,000 to 700,000 people, there is a significant number who, in fact, have presented an infection and who have not yet put the proof of their infection in their All anti-covid system. But recall is the rule, added the Minister, and non-recall is the exception.
franceinfo: This week, almost all of the French people who are concerned have made sure to have their health pass validated today with the booster dose. Jean Viard, in your opinion, is this membership? Because the French consider it a good taste health measure. Or else it is mainly due to the constraint it imposes. Without a health pass, nothing can be done. Or both. Could it be specific to this pandemic?
John Viard: I believe that fundamentally, we follow the rules. Firstly because we were afraid of this virus. Then because we are afraid of contaminating others. And then, at some point, we put our trust in a government, on this point, not on the rest, and finally, it’s easier to toe the line.
But there is this great weariness since we have had this virus for almost two years. In your opinion, can this weariness, after a while, lead us to ask ourselves as many questions as before, to no longer be so dissenting and finally to do a little what we are told? say?
What is always complicated is that when you ask the French people are you happy, they are happier than before the pandemic. These are the figures from the Elabe laboratory. Somehow, it’s true that when you’re given the rules to follow, it’s relaxing. That’s the whole danger of this kind of period, it’s that at some point, you’re given a rule to complain about a little, you follow it, it saves you thinking.
So, it’s true that that’s why we have to be very careful about restoring freedoms, and defending them, in this kind of context. But basically, I think people have realized that it’s a dangerous, life-wasting disease, and they’re jostling to try to get through the hurdle. We still have the feeling that we are approaching a period when the disease will be less of a pandemic and more of a chronic disease. Kind of like the flu.
And then, the big news this week in the management of the epidemic is what happened at school, this massive strike, teachers and parents angry together. This is quite unprecedented in the face of the complexity and fluctuating nature of the health protocols put in place in the school environment, more generally the living conditions of teachers exposed to the virus.
In your opinion, is this a turning point in this crisis, since you have told us so far that the French understand, accept last-minute changes, faced with the evolution of the epidemic, by the government, and there, we see that this is precisely what is blocking. We are warned at the last moment, it changes all the time, etc.
Yes, finally, they went very strong, the minister, by announcing something on Sunday for Monday morning, it is particularly brutal. In addition, you have to be careful. I think parents are calling for the opening of the school with rules. Teachers are more careful. They might be, in some cases, for closure. So they disagree. They are not happy, but they don’t always agree on everything.
Jean Viard, let me ask you the question a little more: in your opinion, was this strike specific to this situation at school? Or the expression of a somewhat broader fed up?
Two tests, two tests difficult to find, discrepancy between: you have to do so many tests, there are none at the pharmacy, etc. And then, as soon as we touch the children, we are all very nervous. We see our children cry when we do the test in their nose. Humanly, it is very painful for the parents. This is something that must be fully understood.
I think there is a very deep crisis in the school and a very deep rejection of the minister. That’s one thing. And basically, that’s a bit the straw that broke the camel’s back. And then, in all of society, we are tired, and this pandemic has exhausted us. It’s all there at the same time. But afterwards, at the same time, we are not in a period of great social conflict. A priori, we are before an election, so it is not impossible that it is a big day of explosion important, very important, and that it can calm things down until the elections.