The anti-vaxxers once again marched yesterday afternoon to protest their opposition to the health pass. In complete confusion, in the name of so-called individual freedom, they protest against the “health dictatorship”.
The consequence? Massive traffic jams in the affected areas, an abundance of CO2 from car exhausts, inability to access streets blocked by the police, the pleasure of walking on the Promenade hindered or disrupted.
A striking example of how a minority, at most 6,000 people in a city of 350,000 inhabitants plus visitors, can actually impose (indeed!), a “dictatorship” by enforcing their will on others, their march. Clearly, coherence between words and actions isn’t always there.
Privacy isn’t the only thing that needs protection, especially if it results in the absence or lesser protection of other fundamental rights, such as health.
When we received the polio vaccine as children, did anyone say anything? It now seems impossible to do anything because individual freedom is infringed upon, but it’s good to remember that public health is also important.
According to a recent Ecoscope OpinionWay – “Les Echos” survey, 16% of French people have “no intention of getting vaccinated”. Notably women, those under 35, and, in particular, French people from working-class backgrounds.
Rather than a health dictatorship, shouldn’t we be talking about the dictatorship of the minority?
