"This is the story of a case of COVID 19, of a single case, but which is the story of our world in times of pandemic"

"This is the story of a case of COVID 19, of a single case. But which is, in fact, the story of our world in times of pandemic. It is the story of Alvaney Xiri-Xana , a 15-year-old adolescent, the first victim of COVID 19 among the Yanomami people, one of the most isolated tribes in the Amazon, in Brazil.

It is the history of our world, Alvaney, malnourished and anemic, was wandered for 3 weeks from health institutions to dispensaries with a simple prescription of antibiotics, without ever being subjected to the slightest screening test in the country of Bolsonaro. Alvanay will not be finally tested until April 3, too late, placed on a respirator, he will die on April 9.

The Alvaney case in the heart of the Amazon makes people fear the worst for the future of their own people. He who was tossed about 3 weeks, staying all that time in close contact not only with his family but all his people. We fear that it will become what epidemiologists call a "super broadcaster" like what was played here for the 1760 sailors of Charles de Gaulle whose (remember) 1046 were infected. So yes we have the right to fear the worst for the Yanomamis.

Beyond the Amerindians, the history of Alvaney necessarily refers us to all these so-called indigenous peoples, so fragile in their immunity and who could tomorrow pay the heaviest price for the epidemic. Starting with the Aborigines of Australia, who were placed under sanitary cordon late on March 26, in a territory where the death rate during the H1N1 epidemic in 2009 had already been six times higher than that of the rest of the country.

How not to think also with the Alvaney case of all the poorest health countries. On the African continent, for the moment still preserved (but do we really have reliable statistics) but where 52 of the 54 countries are now indeed affected by the pandemic.

The story of an Amazonian boy abandoned on the edge of a river also alerts us to the fate of all those who are on the way home, to leave by the roadside. As reminds us of this former big boss that was Louis Gallois today President of the federation of actors of solidarity in a vibrant forum published this week in the newspaper Le Monde: these thousands of invisible workers without papers in France.

The very people who deliver our meals to us at home, prepare our orders for large logistics groups, shadow workers and front line workers who take risks with their health when they are denied the right to benefit from the less medical coverage. The virus should conveniently remind us that they belong to the same community. Yes, this unique case for the moment of Covid-19 in the heart of the Amazon rain forest challenges Wendy.

Anthropologist Bruce Albert reminds us how each time the whites of the civilized world bring evil to the forest, cholera, measles yesterday, Covid 19 today. Whether they are evangelists, or gold seekers, workers who break open the forest to build their roads or extract their precious minerals, all importing their virus to populations in poor health and unable to produce their antibodies.

Bruce Albert reminds us of the premonitory words of the great Claude Levi Strauss over half a century ago who already warned us of an internal poisoning regime in which we would have gone astray, we homo industrialis wrote then Levi Strauss, you could say homo mondialis today.

Yes we the forest shredders, we the people of the goods, we the great predator responsible for the destruction of species, here we are for six weeks, in the absence of treatment or vaccines, as destitute as an Indian d 'Amazonia, forced to confine us in the forest of our cities and our apartments. As if, by an improbable reversal of history, we were about to make ourselves, Wendy, what we made of them, the Amerindians.