people “at risk”, largely forgotten by health policy – ​​Liberation

In the absence of effective protective measures against the virus and while the pandemic continues to rage, the chronically ill find themselves de facto excluded from social life, alerts a collective.

Can we speak as some politicians do, of a period “post-pandemic” ? After the ninth wave at the end of 2022, nearly 40,000 deaths (1) directly linked to the virus this year in France, wish to return to the “life before” is understandable but impossible. The pandemic rages more than ever, less media, always terrible. The facts are stubborn: despite government invocations to “individual responsibility”airborne viruses are still wreaking havoc, bringing already exhausted hospital teams to their knees.

“Living with a virus” shouldn’t be to cover your eyes and pretend it doesn’t exist. Some already know this: the hundreds of thousands of people with sequelae, those suffering from a long Covid, and the chronically ill, people called “fragile”. Poorly protected from serious forms by vaccination or risking a serious deterioration in their health, they are de facto excluded from social life, due to the lack of political will to implement effective protective measures, such as a massive ventilation of establishments open to the public or the restoration of the wearing of masks in public transport and closed places.

Their safety in society, in a context of easing measures and the injunction to “protect themselves” unilaterally (inappropriate in the face of an airborne virus).