Thousands of demonstrators gathered to protest this Saturday across France against health measures aimed at stemming the resumption of the Covid-19 epidemic due to the virulent variant Delta. Tension in particular linked to the implementation of the health pass. “Liberty, Liberty” or even “Macron, your pass, we don’t want it”, we could hear in the processions. For Serge Hefez, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst invited from Europe Midi, who had warned about a third wave of psychiatry, a social divide could well be in the process of being created.
“A lot of hostility”
For the specialist, the risk is indeed to go towards a division between the French. “What we learned from this epidemic is that in order to react, the social fabric has to hold up, that we feel connected to each other and that we adhere together to what is offered to us. saw it during the first confinement, something quite extraordinary happened since there was a massive adherence to rules which were however extremely difficult and coercive. It was the first time that we was obliged to stay with us. And yet, we joined because we all felt a bit caught in the same galley, “he noted.
But after this cohesion between the French, oppositions are now being felt around the health pass. “There are people for, people against. And that indeed creates an extremely sensitive opposition because they do not understand each other. We know that vaccines have saved from a whole bunch of contagious diseases in our history, that the we are the country of Pasteur. So we do not understand the opposition and a lot of hostility is born in this period “, noted Serge Hefez.
The French infantilized
According to him, the blunders of the executive on the disease have contributed to fuel the doubts of the population about vaccination. “The first was to take the French for children by addressing them as a teacher addresses his class and by not taking them as partners in these decisions. The question of the vaccine or the health pass concerns us all in our daily life, in our convictions, continued the specialist. And there is a lack of adhesion of many people because they have the feeling that it is imposed on them from above, without that we explain the issues to them very clearly “.
A government strategy that had the effect of causing the opposite effect to that expected. “The French rebel like children and come to refuse everything, push back everything without being able to distinguish between what could be positive or negative. And with children, we know very well that making them participate in a decision is always more profitable than to impose something on them “.
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