Tribune. The waves of Covid-19 follow each other, and we hope that they are not alike. Will hospitals be able to cope with the influx of patients again? The state of the establishments, where the beds close by the hundreds for lack of caregivers – having, out of disgust, fled the hospital that trained them -, where emergencies overflow until implosion, when they still open, he allows always take good care our fellow citizens, waiting for the booster dose of vaccine? Concern reigns, anger roars, the media on the lookout relay this concern, this anger of caregivers who are tired of the deafness of political decision-makers and blind or commanding management. What is behind this deafness, this blindness of our rulers? Would they have moved so far from the land where these caregivers work, lost in the middle of the burning forest?
They keep telling us, through press releases, that the measures taken, especially during the Health Segur in 2020, will bear fruit, which must be waited for. But how long can I wait when the storm is raging? The sailors know it so well, the decisions must be taken now, at the risk of the announced sinking of our beautiful health system which, obviously, is taking water. Why so much contempt when listening to the cries of alarm from caregivers who still believe that the ship can be saved, provided that our leaders can still listen to the “people of care”, workers not recognized for what they do, day and night, with patients who do not complain.
Slow destruction of public services
For the philosopher Jean-Pierre Dupuy, the prediction of a certain catastrophe is unique in that everything must be done to avoid it, unlike the prediction of a probable catastrophe, which prevents action. The search for profitability has led to the slow destruction of public services. The Covid has accelerated what was expected and feared by some seasoned caregivers, those of the hospital’s defense collectives in particular. The Covid has nothing to do with it, but the story of the Covid has become the story of those, above ground decision-makers, who did not want to see, did not want to hear.
This blindness, this deafness again, are they not the words of a true lie of the State, unable to say finally that public hospitals are no longer a priority? That the public hospital should disappear, in favor of private for-profit structures or not? That caregivers wear themselves out without understanding all that is given to them – handouts for their silence? That patients, so patient, will no longer be able to be properly cared for because the means cannot be, according to our decision-makers, granted to all. Say it, and assume it! Cynically, but transparently!
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