There is a “an awareness that has been happening for a few hours” about the vaccine against the Covid-19, assured Sunday January 3 on franceinfo Yves Jégo, former Secretary of State under François Fillon, deputy and founding president of the certification of Origin France guaranteed. He signed with other business leaders a column published in the Sunday newspaper to encourage bosses to get vaccinated to set an example.
franceinfo: why do business leaders want to lead by example?
Yves Jégo : I believe that there is a virtue of example. We must first reassure half of the French who are afraid of being vaccinated and who express it. I think that we will not eradicate Covid-19 if we do not achieve a very high vaccination rate. And then, the company must also be the place where we first have this debate, the place of exemplarity on these questions. The law allows companies to leave the economic framework by giving them a social responsibility. I think that entrepreneurs are also spokespersons for vaccination and that they can open this debate in the thousands of French companies.
How do you explain the reluctance to vaccines of a large part of the French?
This means that there is a lot of misinformation. There is concern. We are in a super-informed, ultra-informed society, where, basically, information kills information. I think we must indeed reassure. I think there is a problem. We see it in the polls where a very large part of our compatriots hesitate, would be afraid, would not want to be vaccinated. This is undoubtedly what prompted the government to be rather careful in starting this vaccination. I now think that we have to realize that the Covid-19 is worse than vaccination, that the disease is worse than the cure and that we really have to convince, discuss, mobilize.
Does the government not give too much importance to anti-vaccines?
I think it’s very complicated to govern the health of the French in these difficult times. Today we can say that the government is going too slowly and that if we had massively opened vaccination centers with images of people who did not want to, we would have made another type of criticism. So, it’s complicated. I think that there has been an awareness that has been growing for a few hours that, basically, vaccination is the only way out of Covid-19, that we must support this movement, ring the bell. mobilization at all levels.
The government has announced an acceleration and we can only rejoice, vaccination sites. But we also say that everyone has their role to play. Everyone is responsible for everyone. Everyone must do their part. A company manager who has 10, 15, 20, 50, 100, 200, 300 employees can open this debate in the company. It can allow employees to have an informed choice to advance a health cause, which is a social cause, but which is also an economic cause. And we can see that we have to restart the economy. And to restart the economy, we must eradicate the Covid-19.
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