What place for antivax?

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PCR test queue at the Parliament of Strasbourg, December 15, 2021. (Illustrative image) AP - Jean-Francois Badias

By: Amaury de Rochegonde Follow

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The media have difficulty understanding the anti-tax movement demonstrating this Saturday in Nantes.

Should we give them the floor?

Ignore them in the name of public health?

These questions are debated in the editorial staff ...

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Are the media giving too much voice to the antivax? Last May, the

site already organized a “vote” on this subject. Result: six out of ten Internet users thought that indeed, we heard too much these antivax, which very often are connected to political movements, sometimes conspirators, in any case relating to the anti-system protest. But here it is that Tuesday, the interview "In front of the readers" of the

of Emmanuel Macron, put this very minority population back on the front of the stage with the famous sentence " 

s ”And its corollary: a denial of citizenship for those he considers“

”.

Emmanuel Macron, in principle president of all French people, doubtless thought more about antivax than unvaccinated, these 20% of the population who may not be vaccinated for various reasons without necessarily rejecting the vaccine. But the fact is that he managed to get what he was looking for: a cleavage between a majority that thinks like him and a very small minority who refuses the vaccine and thus places the very heavy burden on hospitals of supporting the wave. Omicron.

Therefore, there are those who consider that antivax should be treated at

, and with a grain of salt, as they are likely to dissuade vaccination with their infox, and those who think that it is necessary to show who they are, what they think. On the one hand, we find for example Frédéric Filloux, journalist and associate professor at Science Po, who attacked France Inter on Twitter for having given the floor to a non-vax who " 

 ”. In short, he said, an " 

 ". On the other, France Inter, of course, which has already made anti-vaccine interventions live on its antenna. Its director Catherine Nayl rejected in July any stigmatization of antivax and any " 

 ".

From now on, it is important to hear, to follow antivax, to know how far they are " 

 ", as Macron says, with their fake vaccine certificates and tomorrow their fake health passes.

Important to also hear their anger which can aggregate other anger, as we have seen with the yellow vests.

At the same time, we must not fall into the trap of political instrumentalisation of antivaxes by giving them too much importance.

This is undoubtedly what some antivax are hoping for, but also perhaps the power to show that the responsibility is on his side.

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