INTERVIEW
Before thinking of the "next world", some want to analyze and comment on the months of health crisis that have struck France. This is the case of the philosopher and writer Bernard-Henri Lévy. Guest of Patrick Cohen on Sunday on Europe 1, "BHL" returned to the management of the coronavirus crisis, claiming that people "were duped by the media, doctors and power". According to him, taking for granted and sure all information coming from a medical official, there was an "abuse of authority".
>> LIVE - Coronavirus: follow the development of the situation on Sunday June 7
"Scientists knew they didn't know anything"
"We all considered them to be 'knowledgeable'. Politicians kept telling us' we rely on those who know ', and we ourselves considered that they knew,' recalls Bernard-Henri Lévy. "Now, the most serious scientists knew that they knew nothing," he explains, pointing to the fact that medicine is "not a hard science (...) and that the fight dominates between doctors ".
"I think we were seized by a moment of collective distraction"
Bernard-Henri Lévy also denounces the "unbearable authorities' arguments" used in the media by politicians and health authorities. The philosopher thus points to the "terrifying" count of daily deaths. "There was a kind of general atmosphere of terror which I believe was a bad deed," said BHL. "This is not how we face a pandemic," he said, justifying the title of his new book This virus that drives you crazy . "There were mechanisms of this madness. I think we were seized by a moment of collective error."
CORONAVIRUS ESSENTIALS
> First unconventional evening at the restaurant: "It feels like going back three months"
> Economic crisis: "There are going to be two shocks, one on unemployment and one for young people"
> How to distinguish from allergies from the coronavirus?
> Seasonality, cross-immunity, end of the epidemic: the latest questions on the virus
> Can we catch the coronavirus on a plane?
> Coronavirus: 5 mistakes not to make with your mask
"Lawyers threatened the rulers of a 'Nuremberg Corona'"
However, "BHL" does not criticize all the actions of the executive and doctors. "Of course it was necessary to take action in the face of the pandemic (...) I am not saying the opposite", he said at the microphone of Europe 1, citing confinement, wearing a mask or putting on in place of barrier gestures.
"The rulers have done just about enough," continues the writer. "All the more with the threat, the firecracker on the temple, of all these lawyers who threatened them with a 'Nuremberg Corona'," he said. "The lawyers have brought politicians to life under the blackmail of bis contaminated blood," said BHL, concerning the numerous complaints lodged against the government concerning the management of the crisis.
>> Find all of Patrick Cohen's programs in replay and podcast here
"Viruses don't send messages"
"But what I regret is the way we over-reacted to these barrier gestures, the way we got used to them," explains BHL, who worries about what the foundations of " world after ". The philosopher denounces thus pell-mell the aestheticization of empty cities, a thought "contrary to humanism", or the fact that "the ecologists have taken hold of this affair".
"The idea that the virus is a message sent by nature which takes revenge is stupid. Viruses do not send messages", tackles Bernard-Henri Lévy, before criticizing Nicolas Hulot. "When Nicolas Hulot said that nature sent an ultimatum, it was stupid, it was not responsible and it was a bad message," he concludes.