REPORT – Opponents of vaccines and the mandatory extension of vaccine coverage demonstrated this Saturday in front of the Ministry of Health.
” Freedom “. They all have that word in their mouths. Opponents of vaccination and its compulsory extension plan have taken to the streets. This Saturday, they are a few hundred amassed facing the Ministry of Health, under an unstable sky. Lots of young parents. Force them to inject 11 vaccines to their offspring? Don’t count on it.
“We were received this very morning in a room in the ministry, behind us, and they confirmed it to us: the text will go to Parliament in the fall! », Exclaim the organizers of the event. They wear orange T-shirts, printed with the logo “Together For Free Vaccination”, the name of this association born of growing skepticism about vaccines. She is at the origin of the event, she stirred wide.
Knowledge and counter-knowledge
There are those who know: vaccines are poisons, Big Pharma is rubbing its hands that the authorities extend to it. “I’ve been interested in the issue for 20 years, before, I too believed in vaccination. But the more we advance, the more we realize that it is a vast hoax ”, enraged Blandine, 56, who firmly holds his sign“ Genetically different = different side effects ”.
Pasteur takes it for his rank, politicians too. “We vaccinate for business, period. The side effects are disastrous, the handicaps are counted in the thousands, but the lives screwed up, they do not care, they are in denial ”.
Those who are said to be “conspirators” are not the only ones to doubt the real interest of vaccination – a fortiori compulsory. Fathers and mothers who have come to demonstrate, often accompanied by their children, wonder, get annoyed. “It’s up to me to choose what is essential for their health, the political class must stop deciding for people”, annoys Anne, 35, physiotherapist specializing in pediatrics. “You know, the children who come to see me every winter for respiratory problems are also those who have a full health record.”
The eradication of diseases? “It is the improvement of living conditions that made it possible to overcome it”, she answers tit for tat. The recent deaths linked to the resurgence of measles? “There are deaths from all diseases. Let us talk about hygiene of life, physical activity, diet, prevention, that’s what makes it possible to fight against diseases, the priority is not to vaccinate ”.
“Contempt”
They denounce the passage in force of these vaccines considered suspicious, would have wanted that we treat the thing “with parsimony and a lot of thought, not like what is happening”, reproaches another mother. Those who have heard of the citizen consultation can be counted on the finger of one hand. The appeasement operation carried out this year by the authorities has visibly failed its objective.
“We are faced with a scientific controversy, there are the pro and the anti, summarizes François, a young father of 32 years old. I listened to the arguments of each other without a priori, I noticed that there was an enormous contempt for the ideas of the anti. Of course, there are sometimes fallacious arguments, but others are very serious. We have to accept that there is a debate ”.
Federation
The signs wave above the crowd. “Guinea pig children”, “cynical dictatorship”, “my body, my choice”. In a climate of generalized mistrust, they cite these experts whom the TV shows never invite – Michel Georget, Serge Rader … They speak of a toxic environment, everywhere – “vaccines should be banned like certain pesticides!” “. The anti-vaccine discourse unites both moderates and die-hards. And many others who wonder less and less.
“Put pressure on the deputies, the senatorial elections are approaching, there is a card to play, we can act, we must not let them do it”, chants an organizer in her megaphone. It is difficult to know if these new activists will go further than rue Duquesne, but they are sure of one thing: their children, they will not have these 11 vaccines.
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