On March 14, the vaccination pass and the wearing of masks in public places were temporarily lifted. This means that unvaccinated suspended caregivers will not be able to return to their profession, since the vaccination obligation is still in place for caregivers. Thorny subject of the presidential campaign, some make it a hobby horse, and here is what they declared.
Some politicians strongly oppose the vaccination pass and demand the immediate reinstatement of suspended caregivers. We can quote Nicolas Dupont-Aignan, president of the group “Debout La France” and candidate for the presidential election, who clearly displayed his position on March 16 on his Twitter account:
Faced with this desperate nurse, E.’s inhumanity. #Macrononce again, comes to light.
I am the only candidate who agrees to immediately reinstate excluded non-vaccinated caregivers.#ReintegrerLesSoignants pic.twitter.com/wuMD5z6VxF
— N. Dupont-Aignan (@dupontaignan) March 16, 2022
Florian Philippot, president of the Patriots, for his part retweeted a video where Emmanuel Macron tells a crying caregiver that “the government, in the short term, will not remove the vaccination obligation”. The sovereignist candidate sets out in his presidential project “the immediate reinstatement of all health personnel suspended for refusal of vaccination”. Marine Le Pen, for her part, declared on December 27, 2021, in a tweet, “that instead of restricting freedoms, common sense measures should be taken and the suspended caregivers recalled”.
Instead of restricting freedoms, let’s take common sense measures: recall suspended caregivers, reopen beds closed in the midst of a crisis, give doctors freedom to prescribe and above all… rehabilitate the public hospital that has been ransacked for years. (4/4) #Castex19h
– Marine Le Pen (@MLP_officiel) December 27, 2021
Alexis Corbière, LFI deputy, pleaded on September 17, 2021 in a program on the Public Senate channel, for the reinstatement of suspended caregivers and proposed that they undergo a PCR test every day guaranteeing their good health.
Finally, Éric Zemmour, in his speech in Agen on March 12, 2022, undertakes “to reintegrate as quickly as possible the doctors and caregivers who had been chased out of the hospital because they refused to be vaccinated”. “We need them” he adds.
I will reinstate all the caregivers who were driven out of the hospital because they refused to be vaccinated, we need them.#Elysée2022 #ZemmourVsMacron
— Eric Zemmour (@ZemmourEric) March 17, 2022
During the march for the Sixth Republic, Jean-Luc Mélenchon also declared that he wanted to “reinstate the health personnel expelled from the hospital”.
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Other political figures have shown their support for these medical professions. Among them, we find Rémi Tell, founder of the collective Peuple libre, who denounces in a video what looks like a “conditional release regime”. Although since March 14, the vaccination pass and the wearing of masks in public places have been lifted, measures are still effective in hospitals. As a result, the suspended caregivers have still been out of work for six months. Also, Rémi Tell declares that the “fight will not be over until the vaccine pass is repealed and the suspended caregivers reinstated”.
Unsurprisingly, MP Martine Wonner also hammered on Twitter: “Today the #PassVaccinal has been suspended, as well as the wearing of the mask generally everywhere. But, the suspended caregivers have become invisible, they have not been reinstated! Other professionals such as firefighters are in the same situation. Shame to this government.”
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Among the personalities in favor of reintegration, we also find scientists such as geneticist Alexandra Henrion-Caude, who shared on Twitter a platform of 21 parliamentarians “Which alert to the fate of unvaccinated caregivers”. But also doctor Gérald Kierzek, who during his time on TPMP insisted on the fact that “The urgency is to reintegrate the caregivers”. And even, Martin Blachier, who explained on Sud Radio that the doctors had to be reinstated.
.@MartinBlachier #ReintegronsLesSoignants?
“I never supported this measure. It should stop. We should reintegrate them. We must reconcile the healthcare world, it’s a useless divide.
There is no scientific data to back it up.”https://t.co/hi878XdHka pic.twitter.com/KxF7woKx1u
— Nicolas Vedrines (@NicolasVdrines1) March 17, 2022