In general indifference, we continue to die from the Covid

Christian Lehmann is a doctor and writer. For “Liberation”, he keeps the regular chronicle of a society crossed by the Covid-19.

Two years of pandemic and a campaign that seems to have learned nothing from it. One could have imagined that, on one side or the other, the Covid is if not a major subject in view of its current invisibilization, at least the opportunity for feedback, for an initial assessment. Nothing happened, and for good reason. Taking note of the relative calm in the hospital, the government had deliberately chosen to anticipate the end of omicron by betting on a stabilization of the contamination rates during April, so that the election takes place outside of the exceptional procedure. Emmanuel Macron had no desire to see certain inglorious episodes of his management recalled: lies on masks, risky epidemiological bets, various confusions. Opposite, the opposition had little interest in dwelling on its own liabilities either. The “Republican” right had wallowed in the great widths at the feet of Didier Raoult, proclaiming on all the channels that it was criminal to wait for rigorous clinical trials before pouring tons of ineffective or even dangerous molecules on the general public. on the grounds of urgency. The far right had openly dredged up conspiracy theorists and antivax, choosing to speed up the ambient chaos to scrounge up some sponsorships and rack up views on…