pedrodelavega wrote:We did not get our ass out of the brambles:
Christophe wrote:pedrodelavega wrote:We did not get our ass out of the brambles:
It has been 7 weeks since it vaccinates in the UK (a little more in the USA ...) we can deduce that vaccination is "really effective" (but we continue to believe in it ?? !! and to lie to people ??) !!
Why do I feel like I know it was going to be like this?
Christophe wrote:It's shit zamis !!
[I]Coronavirus: English variant may be 30% deadlier
Christophe wrote:Biden reports +600 dead in the US ... so it will probably exceed a million ...
https://www.rtbf.be/info/monde/detail_c ... d=10680618
By Paul TOUBOUL, professor of cardiology at the University of Lyon 1, hospital doctor
To begin with, questions. Are we going to permanently install in our practices the daily count of our fellow citizens affected by this or that virus? Like the weather report, will figures and percentages of victims now appear on our phones, influencing the color of our days? Does the prospect of a tense neighborhood with the world of viruses emerge and with it that of a life attentive to the slightest jolts of this refractory sidekick to which it will be necessary to respond without delay? Has a long-term fight begun in which all the resources of human intelligence are deployed for our survival? Are we entering a new era, that of humanity on a crusade against the natural pests that put it in danger? Is this the grandiose project of the future to perpetuate our existence on earth?
Our humanity, in its relation to the nature that surrounds it, is perhaps at a turning point. She does not seem to tolerate anything around her now that is beyond her control and, what is more, would be a threat. But, come to think of it, this struggle is, at bottom, ancestral. Man has always sought to overcome obstacles to his development, even to eliminate them. They were always targets on a human scale, apprehended by our senses, and within the reach of suitable means, sometimes violent. The advent of vaccines and then antibiotics offered the first opportunity to fight our enemies of the invisible world, which are infectious agents. Defeating these dangerous beings capable of exterminating us has certainly marked a date in our life on planet earth. And the improvement in our living conditions today owes a lot to this progress.
Since then, knowledge of the microscopic living universe has grown considerably. A multitude of species that inhabit it have been identified. More and more sophisticated techniques have penetrated their intimacy, even offering possibilities for manipulation. The explosion of this knowledge also results in incessant questioning, additional questions, new theories and increasingly intrusive practices. However, the field of the unknown is not reduced and is even renewed ad infinitum. If man was able to set himself up as a sorcerer's apprentice, he is nonetheless fascinated by the grandiose mystery that is life around him. And in the path of the researcher, the passion to know comes close to humility and the awareness of his ignorance.
No more local medicine, make way for the state armada
So why this preamble? because the management of the current health crisis has brought to light the illusions of misguided scientific attitudes which are themselves the counterpart of a contemporary hubris. What did we see in this case? Traditionally required epidemic behaviors have been dismissed with disdain. That each reported case refers it to its doctor, that the latter takes charge of it and prescribes a treatment deemed appropriate for which it ensures the follow-up, this is what always happened when such or such a virus appeared. The disease remained personalized, had a face, consisted of individual stories, kept a human dimension. However, this practice has been swept aside. The practitioner was no longer up to a fight considered titanic. No more local medicine. Make way for the state armada that are public hospitals. So the French state decided.
Did the notion of pandemic give meaning to such a measure? The explosion of contaminations could on the contrary justify recourse to the entire medical profession and the multiplication of the offer of care. The more so as the initial assumption of responsibility fell obviously within the competence of generalists. Yet it was decided otherwise. And the way was brutal since certain drugs recommended initially were limited and practitioners sanctioned by the Order for having contravened official injunctions. An authoritarian centralism in medical matters was therefore established, the State unilaterally managing the epidemic, by counting the extent and decreeing the conduct. An entirely new situation which has only gotten stronger over time.
In doing so, in the absence of general practitioners, we can consider that a number of cases have been delivered to an aggravation which could be avoidable, possibly contributing to the excess initial mortality. State authoritarianism has given it to their heart's content, hiding behind evidence that does not suffer discussion. We have witnessed a politicization of positions and comments that have nothing to do with health content and their scientific basis. There was now an official truth, the only one valid in the management of the epidemic. It is of course permissible for power to impose its way of approaching a crisis and the resulting solutions. But not by instilling a deleterious, unhealthy ambient context, where the opponents are delivered to the vindictiveness of the right-thinking. And the weight of propaganda through the media has never been so measured on subjects which are simply controversial over knowledge. I dare say that the atmosphere has taken on a totalitarian flavor.
The imposition of spirits linked to this desire to remain master of the game and to reign without sharing has continued without interruption. The epidemic outbreak extinguished, the government embarked on the hunt for viruses lasting here and there, to which the treacherous design was assigned to invade us again. What were the grounds for this fear? To tell the truth the affirmation was shrouded in mystery, suggesting that it was obvious. By the fact took shape the representation of an extraordinary adversary to which would be delivered a merciless war. An event, which at the outset nothing distinguished from those of the past, thus became unique, unheard of, and, I would say, commensurate with contemporary hubris. We were no longer dealing with and isolating contaminated cases, the basics of traditional strategies, we had to tackle a planetary event head-on and ultimately ensure, with today's weapons, the victory of the Promethean man.
Because it is indeed a generational posture that it is. And our Minister of Health is the embodiment of it. Son of this world, he without qualms rejected the opinion of recognized personalities in infectious disease, as titled and prestigious as they are, to rely on methods which, if not proven , were innovative. We have to admit that he followed the recommendations of experts, who were more laboratory than field workers. Predictions based on clever calculations, explanatory diagrams supported by mysterious algorithms, crisis management carried out from a command center where an abstract intelligence was deployed, manipulating data that it gave birth to, were taken into account. This is perhaps the great novelty of the event, that of having inaugurated a globalist, bureaucratic vision of an epidemic, in the image of above-ground experts enthroned from the height of dematerialized knowledge.
In this same perspective, the measures taken had to be on the scale of a battle of giants. Intervening on entire populations, imposing confinement, wearing masks, or even using coercion if necessary, stirring up multitudes in a merciless battle against the coronavirus, this is a war worthy of the name in which the resources of human intelligence will have free to prove themselves. If in the past viruses seemed to dictate their conditions, today we could impose other rules of the game on them. With our tests, it was a question of flushing out them on a large scale, of tracking down the foci of multiplication, and in in case of danger, to seal the country in order to shield it from the onslaught of invaders. And we did not skimp on the means, even if it meant putting down economic and social activity. The challenged contemporary man has risen to the height of a planetary evil. Every day the enemy intrusions and the losses suffered on this shapeless and invisible battlefield were compulsively counted.
Deaf to any criticism, our omens have come to discover at their expense that the virus has more than one trick up its sleeve. They had, however, been warned. Respiratory viruses are subject to continual mutations. The advent of variants had already been reported in July and October 2020, responsible for a surge in viral activity. Suddenly the story took breath and the fight started again. Screening by forced marches, maintaining a leaden cover on the population, monopolization of information by the virus, in short, the mad epic continues. And there is no reason for it to stop. Until then we tackled declared epidemics. Now it is the secret world of viruses that we are attacking. The hidden mutations that characterize them are the new target. These variants that could one day become epidemic are tracked. But until when ? The mastery of the exchange, it must be admitted, does indeed belong to the coronavirus which imposes its tempo on us and can alone decide the end of the game.
How long will this crazy strategy last?
It is clear that the strategy applied to this virus has become insane. The choices made, including that of the vaccine, cannot count on a real control of the situation, namely to protect us all durably from contamination. If we are not satisfied with a pragmatic approach, that is to say, treat, isolate the contaminated and protect the most vulnerable while waiting for better days, the outcome risks being postponed indefinitely in the face of a virus constantly scrutinized and whose secret life is no longer tolerated. It all started almost a year ago. Nothing suggests an imminent outcome. This is unheard of in terms of the epidemic. Was it necessary that this one derogates from all rules and that our knowledge drawn from a tested experience be undermined? It is permissible to doubt this and to question the current health policy is more essential than ever today.
We cannot shut down a country with impunity to fight an infectious agent, admittedly contagious but whose lethality does not exceed that of the flu. That we continue to monitor it away from any media hype, the matter is the responsibility of any nation responsible for protecting its citizens. But for that to maintain a state of war is nonsense which leads us to a collective shipwreck. It is unfortunately to be feared that our leaders will be reluctant to question themselves. Not to mention that the sacrosanct principle of precaution and the fear of judges risk reinforcing such obstinacy. Yet the urgency is there. Life must resume its rights in our country, all latitude being restored to socio-economic activity and culture to express itself, the individual for his part finding in his daily life the ingredients that motivate and structure him. In short, a free existence, without fear and open to the future. Keeping an eye on the virus, like all the threats that surround us, should not jeopardize our reasons for living.
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