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Since the start of the pandemic, the French Pediatric Society (SFP) has slowed down by claiming to protect children, arguing that the latter were not at risk, did not contaminate and that the barrier measures were harmful to their mental health. . This repeated denial has reinforced the immobility of the Minister of Education, even if the evolution of the pandemic has constantly led the SFP to eat its hat on masks, on contamination and more recently on vaccination. At the same time, groups of self-proclaimed vigilant citizens saw the measures to protect children as a huge genocidal plot and invented themselves as ultimate resistance fighters, replicating the QAnon delirium. Nicolas Winter, 34, a pediatric emergency doctor at the Valenciennes hospital center, deciphers the way in which children are instrumentalised during this pandemic.
“It all starts with fear. The fear of a part of the population to whom some explained that the mask would retain the miasma and weaken the immunity of the people who wear it. Worse still, the mask would increase the concentration of CO2 and e…
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