“Mfreedom, today, it is there: 30 centimeters of cables and 3 kilos of material that I will carry 24 hours a day until the end of my days. Raphaël Gérard, LREM deputy, spoke at the National Assembly on Tuesday evening, January 4, in the midst of a debate on the vaccination pass. The elected official, who suffers from a long Covid and can no longer go out without the medical device that allows him to breathe, explained what his daily life was today, recalling that it was also that of “tens of thousands of people who will have to live until the end of their days with the consequences of Covid ”.
Some elected members of the opposition consider the vaccination pass as a tool for freedom-killing. But for Raphaël Gérard, freedom is something else. “We can brandish freedom all over the place. But freedom is not just a set of rights. It is a set of duties and rights. It is a fair balance between rights and duties. “
Raphaël Gérard no longer wants to “live in the same hell”
“When you look at the public who are in intensive care, you have 80% of non-vaccinated, and 20% of people who, like me, do not want to relive that”, Raphaël Gérard said again.
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“Every time I take the train, I don’t ask myself whether or not I can eat peanuts. I ask myself the question of knowing if I will get out of this train safe and sound, or if I will go back to the same hell, ”he continued.The elected LREM defends caregivers
The elected LREM also pointed the finger at the opponents of the vaccine pass, who have been disrupting the debates since Monday. “Each of your posturing is an insult to the 130,000 people who have died. Each of your vociferations, your exaggerations, is a punch in the stomach to people like me who have to live with it. “
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Raphaël Gérard also had a word for the caregivers, who were by his side for six months. The six months he fought against the Covid. “You claim to defend caregivers… Today, they are the first to say ‘enough’. Let’s avoid the sick that we could avoid. Let’s avoid overloading. The question is not so much the question of the beds. It is the question of the people who are around the beds. “