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Pandemic chronicle
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Physician and author Christian Lehmann provides regular updates on societal responses to the coronavirus for “Liberation.” In this installment, he features a pediatric emergency room physician who exposes the misinformation and exploitation of children by anti-vaccine activists and conspiracy theorists.
Access previous entries in Christian Lehmann’s Pandemic Log here.
From the pandemic’s onset, the French Pediatric Society (SFP) employed a cautious approach, asserting that children faced minimal risk, were not significant transmission vectors, and that protective measures negatively impacted their mental well-being. This consistent downplaying of the threat hampered the Education Minister’s response, even as evolving pandemic data repeatedly forced the SFP to revise its stance on masks, transmission, and, recently, vaccination. Concurrently, self-styled community watchdogs depicted child-protective measures as a genocidal plot, portraying themselves as stalwart resisters echoing the QAnon narrative. Dr. Nicolas Winter, 34, a pediatric emergency doctor at Valenciennes Hospital Center, sheds light on the manipulation of children throughout the pandemic.
“It begins with apprehension. A segment of the population was led to believe that masks would trap noxious fumes and compromise the