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The Book of Dr. Girard
October 12, 2009
http://livre.fnac.com/a2752109/Marc-Girard-Alertes-grippales?Mn=-1&Ra=-1&To=0&Nu=1&Fr=0
| Professional answers to a citizen reaction | Compared to other excesses of delusional medicalization (obstetric ultrasounds, mammograms, HPV vaccines, prostate cancer screening...), the situation with the "swine flu" stands out due to a clear and welcome discrepancy between the authorities' discourse and the majority of citizens' skepticism. | When the Diplomatic World of September 2009 rightly laments the "popular discouragement" in the face of politics being subjugated to the forces of money, a situation as acute as this makes it all the more hopeful for a democratic awakening, especially since it comes right after a major economic crisis, which in its own way also marked the divorce between the blindness of the dominant discourse ("the foundations of the economy are sound," "the state is not the solution: it is the problem") and the painful perception of a majority of citizens (including the work-suicides) who experienced day by day that, really, things could not continue at this pace... | During a recent broadcast (@rrêt sur images, 04/09/09) to which I was invited, one of the participants argued that regarding the swine flu, | the calm of the population should be credited to a press "that has done its job well." | This is strictly false: the press, for the most part, has been carried away in a whirlwind of less and less critical reporting, and the discrepancy just mentioned is precisely reflected in the ironic or irritated reactions that this media's majority docility provokes among readers or viewers. | The population is not "calm," it is exasperated by this outpouring of alarmism. | And it is this exasperation that deserves to be interpreted. In this case, people perceive all the more | manipulation | they are subjected to, as they are also afraid of the preventive ingenuity of the authorities. Fear for the money of their taxes and their contributions, of course, but | also fear for their health or that of their loved ones and their children | : more advanced on this issue (as on many others) than their political representatives, they no longer believe that vaccines are harmless panaceas - especially not these new vaccines that the industry is hastily multiplying to compensate for the loss they would otherwise suffer from their shocking inability to innovate. |
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