Is there a vaccine against bogus committees?

Olivier Véran attended the presentation of the recommendations of the Economic, Social and Environmental Council on the vaccine on Tuesday.

Yes, and I must admit that I admire the courage it sometimes takes to be a minister.

That between an emergency in Nice and an alert in Dunkirk, the Minister of Health had to waste his time undergoing the heartbreaking banalities spelled out by the Economic, Social and Environmental Council (the ESEC), that amazes me.

Because, to find more inconsistent, like recommendations, you have to dig deep.

The EESC has made seven sets of recommendations.

None find favor in your eyes? 

But yes, all of them.

They are all excellent because they are so obvious: we have to improve communication on vaccination and spread positive messages (yes!), We have to manufacture licensed vaccines (ah!), Pilot all this at the level of the territories (of course! ).

Even more daring and creative: we must mobilize doctors and pharmacists, and we must optimize all of this by integrating (hold on tight) "the constraints of the supply chain".

It shakes up, right?

Frankly, did we really need one more report for that?

And who are the authors of this work? 

Ah, there are several of them.

The EESC was asked a few months ago by the Prime Minister on "supporting the vaccine strategy".

As it has no competence in the matter, the EESC digged into its reflexes and hastened to appoint a temporary committee, no more competent of course.

This sub-committee therefore auditioned the "Collective of 35 citizens drawn by lot" which has, note it well, exactly the same incompetence and the same roadmap on "the accompaniment of the vaccine strategy".

So the good news is that we had no signals from this “Citizen Council” since the announcement of its creation last November.

They are alive.

And I guess there's some bad news too?

They are not used for the moment.

They met twice three days, and what we can guess from their work, through a few testimonials and recommendations unveiled at the EESC, is at the level of what all the media, all social networks and all the French have been debating for months.

And I remind you that, alongside the High Authority for Health, the High Council for Public Health, and the National Ethics Committee, have been created over the past year: a Covid Scientific Council, a Scientific Committee on vaccines, a Council orientation of the vaccination strategy, not to mention our famous Council of 35 citizens on vaccination.

How can we believe that there is not a huge waste of time in all these Theodule Committees working on the same subjects with the same information?

And how can we not hope that one day we will find a vaccine against this galloping bureaucratic epidemic?