Nicolas Bedos aroused the indignation of a very large part of the scientific world on Thursday by encouraging the French to defy advice to fight against the coronavirus.

Friday, the actor and director justified this position, shared by some artists.

His message unleashed passions.

Thursday morning, Nicolas Bedos raised a rant against the health measures and barrier gestures to be respected to fight against Covid-19.

With this message posted on Instagram, the actor and director sparked the anger of many scientists facing the clear resurgence of the epidemic.

At the same time, he received support and justified himself on this controversial speech on Friday morning.

Return, in five acts, on a controversy which highlights the opponents to the preeminence of the health aspect on our way of life.

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Act I: "Live your life" on Instagram

The words are inflamed and reflect indignation at the measures taken in the country to curb the resurgence of the epidemic in France.

"Stop everything. EVERYTHING. The masks, the confinements. Except in front of your very fragile parents, when they wish it, which was not the case of my father, bruised to death to be deprived of our love", launches Nicolas Bedos on Instagram, Thursday, around 5 a.m.

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Take off the masks.

Stop at stops.

Love, wrongly and through.

A post shared by Nicolas Bedos (@nicolasbedosofficiel) on Sep 23, 2020 at 8:09 am PDT

"Live thoroughly, get sick, go to restaurants, yell at the cops, contradict your bosses and cowardly government directives," continues Guy Bedos' son on the social network.

"We must now live, even if it means dying. Our elders need our tenderness more than our precautions. We stop stopping. We live. We love. We have a fever. We move forward. We withdraw from the area. gray. It's not the color of our hearts. "

Act II: an almost unanimous condemnation

Very quickly, Nicolas Bedos' message was widely commented on, the day after new announcements from Olivier Véran on the restrictions in the face of the epidemic.

On the whole, Internet users condemn this position, going against the dominant discourse on the need to protect the most vulnerable by wearing a mask, in particular.

In a response posted on Twitter, the host Christophe Dechavanne strongly reframes it: "I tell you with respect and friendship, that to call not to be bound by one of its civic and human duties is not possible in does and does not suffer from any discussion. (…) Without messing around, we can play with many Nicolas lights, but not those, not those. "

A few words for @ nicolasbedos1pic.twitter.com / QE8Dn5oqwm

- ChristopheDechavanne (@CDechavanne) September 24, 2020

The scientific world is particularly upset against Nicolas Bedos.

"You would be available to come and give us a little helping hand to fill in the intensive care duty lists, because we will, in the coming days, be forced to double our staff at night", replied on Twitter Stéphane Gaudry, professor intensive care unit at the Avicenne hospital in Bobigny, in Seine-Saint-Denis.

Other members of the scientific and medical community have also denounced this behavior.

Bedos is therefore pouring into a crass populism, to please ... like others, by calling to overwhelm health services, caregivers, the system;

by avoring the overflow of the epidemic which will inevitably affect the most vulnerable and kill them ... # COVID19https: //t.co/gvZ5Q9z0GJ

- The Doc (@Le___Doc) September 24, 2020

Act III: some support for this rant

In the midst of these answers, for many indignant, are some support.

The message posted by Nicolas Bedos had thus been "liked" nearly 60,000 times on Friday morning.

And several personalities have publicly expressed their support for this position "against cowardly government directives", such as Elsa Zylberstein, Patrick Puydebat or Vincent Lindon.

The actor ranked on the left said on

Daily

that he could have "said that in a dinner": "I do not agree on the form, I could agree in the substance. The sentence is strong, you have to be Jean Moulin to say 'even if it means dying to live', I understand what he meant, that means let's go, let's kiss each other, see each other. Those who are against and who find it ridiculous are exaggerating and are wrong. "

The actor also received the support of Pascal Praud and his team, on CNews, as our columnist Bertrand Chameroy noted on his Screen Saver, in Culture-Médias: 

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Act IV: Véran's response

In the middle of the day, Thursday Olivier Véran responded to the director.

Heard by the Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry on the Management of the Coronavirus Crisis, the Minister tackled comments "cookie-cutter that can be launched on a blog".

"I think that during this period, you have to be extremely attentive, especially when you have a lot of listening around you, to our way of expressing ourselves, to the messages that we convey," he said.

"You cannot force people to take care of themselves in spite of themselves, but you can force people to take care of others in spite of themselves."

"One in three patients admitted to a sheave is under 65": Olivier Véran replies to Nicolas Bedos pic.twitter.com/h2W3UueS4H

- BFMTV (@BFMTV) September 24, 2020

Act V: Bedos persists and signs

Faced with the outcry caused by its publication, Nicolas Bedos decided to respond.

Friday morning, on Instagram, he justified himself by reminding "certain eminent journalists" that he was "not Minister of Health": "I am only an author, what was once called, with a hint of contempt, a 'pamphleteer', "he continues.

"And, incidentally, I remind you that we are still free to think differently, to debate, to be indignant, and even to make mistakes."

Before concluding with the hashtag #l let you live.

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A post shared by Nicolas Bedos (@nicolasbedosofficiel) on Sep 24, 2020 at 11:57 am PDT

This message received the support of several celebrities, such as Elie Semoun, Linda Hardy, Michael Youn or Francesca Antoniotti.

But this development has above all gathered the resentment of many Internet users, already quite irritated by the original message.