Do not think that I want to compare the patients of the CoVid-19 to old worn-out shoes, but when I hear the Minister of Health choking in front of the deputies who voted the end of the state of emergency on December 14 , I can’t help comparing his gait, if I may say so, to that of a shoemaker who would yellingly ask not to walk on the pretext that his shop would be invaded by a mass of tatanes with holes, that he wouldn’t has no more room to store them and no staff to repair them all.

   I would like to tell him to expand his shop and recruit instead of spending billions unnecessarily to subsidize those he wants to prevent from walking around.

   It is in a way the reality of containment, this dramatic exception which will end up causing more deaths than a Coronavirus in itself, which is not fatal but causes related effects which, if poorly controlled, become lethal.

   As for taking as examples, in order to demonstrate the correctness of his anger, the fate of two patients (young or not for that matter) suffering from the virus with whom a cohort of caregivers are fighting who can no longer take it, claiming that they this was the reality, I will not dispute it in any way, but will specify that it is an absolutely normal hospital reality and not the daily reality of sixty-five million healthy and healthy French people.

   Because after all, if we see that there are patients, sometimes serious and at the end of life, in a hospital, there is no reason to be surprised, nor to be moved, it is the place where we group them together and where we only see them, suffering from various pathologies, some of which are inexorable. I have plenty of examples to cite. From oncology wards to many cancer patients who groan, from geriatrics where bedsores stink the atmosphere giving a taste of the afterlife, from specialized centers where multiple sclerosis plunges patients into a coma, fed by a gurgling gastrostomy, pediatric wards where children are infused, sheaves where dislocated bodies land, medicine where bacteria eat away at your bones, neonatal wards where incubators are full of premas or small weights, centers helio-marins where children breathe poorly… all services where there are only sick people entering and some leaving. In short, there are sick people in hospitals, clinics and elsewhere, that’s normal, but fortunately the vast majority of the population not only is doing well but will only enter these premises to visit relatives or friends. As in all pandemics, as far as we are concerned today, only a percentage, sometimes significant, of people are contaminated. Never the entire population. It is enough on the other hand to respect the gestures of hygiene to limit the diffusion of the pathogen, in addition to the genetic inequality which governs our lives. And if you are afraid, stay at home, but not suffer this kind of despotic ostracism that is imposed confinement.

   On the other hand, if successive governments have shown incompetence, this is not a reason to make the whole of the community suffer. Because it was not difficult to predict, knowing that the population was growing and that the average lifespan was getting longer, that the sick would take the same curve and that it was becoming imprudent to cut hospital beds, or even close them altogether. The establishments. In the past, when tuberculosis ravaged the population and there were no antibiotic treatments to cure it, a plethora of sanatoriums were built to accommodate those suffering from the disease. Today, practically useless, these huge buildings have been transformed into a retirement home, rest, rehabilitation, care etc. etc. Two conclusions are necessary: the first is that our ancestors showed more clairvoyance than our contemporary ministers, the second is the demonstration, thanks to intelligence, that everything can be transformed with benefit. The colossal sums spent on the multiple aids that will have to be reimbursed one day or another would have been better used in the urgent creation of units intended to treat this temporary influx of patients rather than to kill slowly. a greater number of healthy people.

   If we wanted to act as in contaminated farms by slaughtering all the livestock, we would not do it any other way.