So we are ” in war “. “We are at war, a health war, of course. We are not fighting against an army or against another nation, but the enemy is there, invisible, elusive, and advancing. And that requires our general mobilization. We are at war. ” It is the president who said it himself, at the beginning of the extent of the pandemic on our country, in his speech of March 16, 2020. It is because he intends to give to the prevention against the Covid the appearance of a war that the president has chosen to engage in a health policy that he disguises as a defense policy. But we are not waging war on a virus or a disease: we are waging war on another country or on a people. If he who is the Head of State for a few more months gives his policy the forms of a war, it is first of all because, in the history of our country, it is often – so as not to always say – by waging a war that the heads of state, the executive powers, have asserted themselves as such. (…)
But, of course, as in any ideological action, we are in the imagination, as we have been taught the Communist Party Manifesto, by Marx and Engels. First, because this health policy is a political illusion. How to explain that, so long after the appearance of the virus, after practically the entire population of our country has been vaccinated, the virus is still so active, if not because the vaccine prevention policy is not really one? Health policy gives the illusion of state action when in reality, instead of a prevention policy, the state conducts a surveillance policy. (…)
Here we are, with this health defense policy, back to the good old days of what was once called the “social war”, in other words the class struggle. Let’s not be mistaken about the meaning of this health defense policy, let’s not be mistaken about its adversary: it is not against the virus that the State is waging war, as the authorities want us to believe, it is against the people of our country, the same who are attacked by social violence, that of unemployment, by cultural violence, that of the weakening of educational equality, and, henceforth, by the violence of health policy.
Bernard Lamizet Former professor at the IEP of Lyon
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