France: 250 thousand people take to the streets against covid pass
Anger over stricter covid-19 rules prompted many people to protest in France for the fifth consecutive weekend. Official authorities estimate a total of around 250,000 protesters across the country on Saturday, more than double the protests started in mid-July. The anger of the participants is directed against compulsory vaccination for health workers and recently extended to almost all areas of public life. If Macron expected the protests to end, he made a glaring political mistake.
To understand the harshness of the health system in France, let's give some examples: the French must present the so-called health pass to go to a restaurant or to the cinema, for long-distance train journeys and in some public places and also to shop in large shopping centers. For now the tests are free, but from mid-October this exemption will cease and the analyzes will be charged to citizens, so vaccination will become compulsory surreptitiously.
The protests were initially peaceful. In the television images of the “BFMTV” station in Paris, many national flags could be seen above the crowd, as well as the rainbow flag. In Aix-en-Provence, demonstrators shouted "Liberté!" ("Freedom!") And in Lyon a man showed a sign to the camera saying: "Let's save our children from Pfizer!". In Paris, despite the heat, tens of thousands of people demonstrated
The same in Marseille, despite the sweltering heat
Macron announced a tightening of the measures a few days ago, which brought even more people to the streets. It seems that the harshness of vaccination measures creates more and more skeptics, does not make them lessen, at least beyond the Alps. Why so much virulence in affirming an effective therapy?
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This is a machine translation of a post published on Scenari Economici at the URL https://scenarieconomici.it/148025-2/ on Sat, 14 Aug 2021 16:53:02 +0000.