Since May 16, the wearing of a mandatory mask in public transport has been lifted, to the great relief of users of buses, metros, trains, taxis or planes, who for the most part were fed up. in the face of this binding measure. But the respite was short-lived: less than a month and a half later, the mask should make a comeback. The Minister of Health – who still has not resigned, Brigitte Bourguignon, invited on RTL Monday June 27, indeed urged the French to ” put the mask back on transport ».
« I ask the French to put the mask back on transport “, she launched, seeing it as a measure of civic-mindedness in the face of the rise in cases of Covid-19. The Minister referred to the civic duty “, consists in ” protect yourself against a highly transmissible variant “, but also to ” protect others, especially the most vulnerable in confined spaces. All without go as far as the obligation of wearing a mask.
Comments which are nevertheless surprising, since wearing a mask has shown no effectiveness on the spread of Covid-19, and would have even contributed to increasing the number of Covid deaths, according to a study published in February 2022 in the journal American Medical Medicine, whose conclusions we had relayed in an article.
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Dr. Robert Malone, inventor of mRNA technology, shared this hypothesis in a text published on his blog in early June. Words that align with the recommendations previously advocated by the World Health Organization (WHO).
Please don’t shout. It is useless and even dangerous to wear a mask when you are not sick. It’s not me who says it’s the WHO (for almost a year).
True or false ?
What has driven me for 15 years is the resistance to abuse of power, and at the moment we are served. https://t.co/p8EimNGWFB— Etienne Chouard (@Etienne_Chouard) January 13, 2021
A minister on the way out?
This interview was an opportunity for the Minister to recall… the vaccination reminder, with a fourth dose for certain categories of the population. ” I am appealing for people who have not used it to do so very quickly “, she said, citing the over 60s and immunocompromised people.
Professor Alain Fischer, president of the orientation council for the vaccine strategy, also called on June 26 for these people to be administered their fourth dose of vaccination. Not hiding her program, Brigitte Bourguignon indicated without fear that we “ will probably come to a fourth dose of vaccine for all.
The minister, who should leave her post with the announcement of a new government, is waiting “ probably Thursday [30 juin] » for the delivery of the mission on emergency services entrusted to the president of the association Samu-Urgences de France, François Braun.
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Then there will be measures that we are taking for the summer, which will be announced next week, I think, and more permanent measures afterwards because we have to work with the territories “, she said.