JI would like to share with you my dismay and my anger at the inadequacy and inconsistency of the political responses to the crisis following the coronavirus. If I understood correctly, we are putting the economy of a large country down, its population on probation and its youth unemployed and in isolation because 5,000 intensive care beds are occupied by the Covid: who measures the incredible disproportion between these facts?
That most large countries are more or less in this case is there an argument which dissuades to seek answers other than containment? How can we not see that the Western world is on the verge of ruin, as governments are trying to fit the population into the mold of unsuitable sanitary devices rather than making this adaptation? On arrival, the mortality, moral, cultural, political, economic and social damage inflicted on the living forces of our nations by confinement will be infinitely greater than the deaths directly caused by the Covid. Maybe they already are.
The mask-test-vaccination sequence evokes the 1940 debacle more than political and administrative control. It does not entail support for the action of those in power. Which is serious. All the more so since it is not reasonable to hope for a mass vaccination compatible with the evolution of the pandemic, with the damage caused to the economy and the deterioration of the morale of the populations.
Will the know-how of our national schools and regional agencies allow us to face the inevitable next pandemic without ending France? I do not know if the serious mistakes that we know are linked to the incoherence of the chain of command or to the ignorance of the disease. In any case, they can only lead to civil disobedience, the outcome of which we never know when we let them begin.
No one dares to think let alone say that perhaps this crisis, which is neither Ebola nor the plague nor even the Spanish flu, remains demographically moderate, although each death is painful: is it not urgent to seek organizational solutions other than this medieval confinement? Which cannot respond to the crisis because it is anything but health: crisis of thought, values, political and administrative apparatus …
Have the politicians and scientists who set up sanatoriums at the start of the 20th century been condemned by history and by men? I mean: shouldn’t we look for solutions other than confinement? Solutions that allow hospitals to fulfill their general mission of caring for the population without leaving serious pathologies at the door.
That is to say solutions that let the population and society live with the risks inherent in life itself. While developing adapted solutions, undoubtedly in the shadow of the hospital but not in the heart, at the risk of abandoning other morbidities. In my humble feeling, this is a major political stake, and of survival, for our societies. As for France, who is going to take it up?
Guy Truchot, Poligny (Jura)