Letter from a mother to the Constitutional Council

Councillor, Councillor,

I’m a mother, grandmother of two small children, a simple French girl who is usually far removed from the political turmoil that crosses our country on a daily basis.

For the first time in my life, I’m writing to you in an attempt to change the course of events.

In my view, the historic challenge we face today covers three areas: health, economics and civilization.

Firstly, and without minimizing its danger, we’re dealing with a virus that kills very few people (1 in 2,000 worldwide), and which has so far killed 50 times less – on a comparable population basis – than the Spanish flu of the last century.

In France, the average age of death is close to life expectancy (82 years), so the virus attacks people who are generally at the end of their lives, and more often than not suffering from co-morbidities.

As for the mortality curve, it now stands at 20-25 deaths/day, which represents 1% of daily deaths (cancer kills 20 times more).

As far as the measures proposed are concerned, the “all-vaccine” approach seems quite adventurous to me: the most vaccinated countries are seeing an upsurge in cases: Israel, a vaccinated country if ever there was one, is even talking about a new confinement (!); and not only do these vaccines protect poorly, they don’t prevent transmission of the virus: vaccinated people are always fitted with masks.

What’s more, we’re dealing with the worldwide deployment of new, poorly validated “gene” technologies, whose side-effects are only just beginning to appear and whose medium- and long-term effects are completely unknown; and laboratories and governments are exempt from responsibility if things go wrong (!).

And what about preventive (vitamin D, etc.) and curative (Ivermectin, recently validated by Pasteur) treatments and hospital bed cuts? Couldn’t the 170 billion euros earmarked to compensate short-time working in 2020 have been partly used for this purpose?

As far as the economy is concerned, the cause is obvious: you don’t need to be an economist to anticipate the multiple bankruptcies to come and a debt that will become unsustainable for future generations.

What kind of world do we want to leave our children? Mr. Macron had sworn that we would never have the “health pass”, which, as everyone has understood, is nothing more and nothing less than compulsory vaccinations for all, and especially for young people, most of whom are not at risk.

And what are we to make of the fact that healthcare workers are required to be vaccinated, while other corporations in constant contact with the public (police, etc.) are exempt? Our members of parliament, who could be expected to set an example, would also be exempt.

All in all, what’s in the offing looks strangely like the establishment of a world of generalized surveillance, in which public and private freedoms would be blithely trampled underfoot; I came across a Senate report yesterday that literally petrified me!

And all this to ensure 1 or 2 extra years of life for people at the end of their lives, to the detriment of young people who have decided not to go to the polls; I speak from experience; my father-in-law would have died of this virus – with proven co-morbidity factors – but I can assure you that he would never have tolerated the sacrifice of all these young people to prolong his existence by one iota.

I implore you, as a citizen of France, as a mother and grandmother, to put these few arguments before your peers to find a reasonable way out of this situation; I’m thinking of Sweden, which has hardly confined anyone, which hasn’t wiped out its economy, whose covid-related mortality rate is 15% lower than in France, which has simply asked the most vulnerable to protect themselves – with a vaccine for those who want it, with informed consent – and others to take care of the most vulnerable.

I’ve gone on at some length, but I don’t think issues like these can be rushed through in 60% empty hemicycles on the eve of the vacations.

I count on your wisdom and ask you to accept, Madam Councillor, Mr. Councillor, my respectful consideration.

F. mother (we protect the anonymity of the mother who sent us this magnificent letter so that we can publish it on this free medicine blog). Please pass it on to those around you and, of course, take inspiration from it. It’s a question of our freedom in the face of this health pass, a pass of shame that effectively establishes a disguised, masked vaccination obligation.