“I am the one who makes children cry”
It is a cry from the heart that finds its audience on social networks. In an open letter to the government this Sunday, La, a pharmacy assistant in Toulouse, denounces the large-scale testing policy, while the government has just decided to massively strengthen the means to test suspected cases of Covid.
“Patients are lost, in us too“begins the young woman whose letter makes a real buzz with over 220,000 likes this Monday night on Instagram. She explains that the screening policy desired by the Head of State and the government is, according to her, reaching its limits and that “cannot test an entire school at 7 p.m. because there is a positive case in all classes“.
Visibly tired by the task which is hers, Lara lets go: “I became the one that makes children cry to test them at all costs. The children cry, struggle, scream at death, are forcibly by their parents, too, at their end. “It also absolutely evokes the problem of parents who want to have their child’s negative test, to bring them back to school, and to be able to go to work.
Before concluding by addressing the government directly (“Hello, the government“?), Lara, the pharmacy assistant, confides the discomfort that drives her in her work and after:”So when i get out of work i cry. I cry to be the one who martyrs children, the one who makes children and their parents cry, the one who must forcibly test dozens of children when they leave school“.
According to the Ministry of Health, around 9.5 million anti-Covid tests were carried out in the first week of January in France. And this should increase further since the government spokesperson, Gabriel Attal, announced this weekend the deployment of several hundred screening centers, especially at vaccination centers.