TESTIMONY
"I was very happy because I did not accept that we, the elderly, were left out", breath Christiane, 73 years old. While an update on the deconfinement of the elderly was carried out Friday evening by the Élysée Palace, it said that it was happy, after having been deeply injured, at the microphone of Europe 1.
During a hearing in the Senate on Wednesday, the president of the Scientific Council, Jean-François Delfraissy, estimated that "18 million people" - those most at risk of developing a serious form of Covid-19 - should remain confined after the May 11. Recommendations equated with discrimination that have inflamed the controversy.
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"What did we do?"
"It made me suffer, it made me very very bad," says Christiane, characterizing it as "total discrimination". On Europe 1, Thursday, Doctor Axel Khan, geneticist and president of the League against cancer, had himself said that keeping some people in confinement on the pretext that they are at risk would be an unconstitutional and discriminatory measure.
"What did we do?" Wonders Christiane again. "We have lived all our lives, we have done all our duty, and now we will be discriminated against not seeing our children and our grandchildren, not being able to do our shopping without having a beating heart because we afraid of everything? "
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"Our generation respects the instructions"
Seeing "mounting the debate on the situation of our seniors", French President Emmanuel Macron wanted to make a point, stating that he did not wish to discriminate against the elderly in the context of the gradual deconfinement announced after May 11. In a press release, published Friday evening, the Elysee Palace said that it "will appeal to the individual responsibility" of each.
"We have to be careful, of course, but everyone has to be careful," said Christiane. "We have the necessary hindsight to know that we are not going to put ourselves in danger," she continues. "We are not children, we understand the instructions and our generation respects these instructions".
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