Olivier Véran has been Minister of Health since February 2020. -
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The day after the announcement of new measures in certain areas aimed at slowing the spread of the coronavirus pandemic, Nicolas Bedos published a text on Thursday on the networks in which he expresses his fed-up with the situation and calls for an end masks and barrier gestures.
A post that sparked an uproar.
The Minister of Health Olivier Véran responded in person to the French actor and director before the Senate commission of inquiry.
"I think that during the period, we have to be extremely attentive, especially when we have a lot of listening around us, to our way of expressing ourselves and to the message that we convey", he began.
"Live even if it means dying, it's a cookie-cutter sentence"
"Live even if it means dying," he continued, quoting the text published by Nicolas Bedos, "it is a cookie-cutter sentence that can be launched on a blog, on an Instagram account.
We can have a platform effect or it may be a personal outlet.
I will be able to understand this type of reflection, if it had consequences on his health alone ”
And to insist: “We cannot force people to take care of themselves in spite of themselves, but we can force people to take care of others in spite of themselves […].
A society which would decide to ignore its old people, a society which would decide to ignore its fragile, its precarious and preventable deaths, this is not a society in which I was raised and in which I want to educate my children.
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And to conclude: “The seat belt, in a car, is not only intended to protect the driver, it is also intended to protect others.
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