Our government claims that the Coronavirus crisis is the most serious ever known since 1929! Obviously, it is not. The 1929 New York Stock Market Crash resulted in an economic "Great Depression" that lasted 10 years and propelled Adolf Hitler to power. The current “economic and health” crisis is a general slowdown controlled with very different effects depending on the countries most affected and many more largely spared. In France, a country subject to an austerity policy since joining the euro zone in 1999, the surge in national debt and an unbroken chain of planetary disasters in the 2000s, our successive governments have saved money as rapiats to finally give it up at the beginning of 2020, in full pandemic. The Macron government is now offering billions of subsidies to the aeronautical and automotive industries, which will receive more than their market value as gifts! In fact, the state accepts a major debt to temporarily protect the two factors of production which are capital and work. Would it not be better in this case to nationalize these industries that we protect at a high price to offer them advantageously to shareholders, unless they are obsolete like the Ministry of Health? Many French companies have holdings and the gifts benefit outside investors.
Personally, I only flew once and I think that public or private health is a priority. But precisely, this health crisis occurred because of the inability to define priorities: Health would be the poor child of the Economy. Even today, the problem is sanitary but the hundreds of billions released will go in priority to listed industries, but also to civil servants, the armed forces, countries supplying consumer goods, employers providing work, investors who feel robbed, to insurers and bankers who for years will charge fees to reimburse their losses. In proportion, the portion that will go to the hospitals is called the bare minimum, and we are not talking about the people who are only there to offer their work and pay off their debt, which will soon double from 30,000 euros per person.
First, we can hear Professor Raoult's speech explaining that this kind of pandemic is not the first nor the last and that it could be reversed with the knowledge of general practitioners and the use of extremely well-known medications that have already proven themselves. Instead, we created an uncontrollable monster, a kind of King Kong locked in the holds until he escaped! And I'm not talking to you about the de-confinement to come... Once the beast released, a tiny virus invisible when getting off the planes, elementary isolation precautions were not followed and French people became infected with hugs during sports or religious events, family and friendly gatherings, military rallies and school meetings with transmitters with childlike smiles.
Afterwards, we can estimate that Professor Raoult is wrong and that the confinement imposed on the population by this government pushed to the maximum has saved 60,000 lives: see, we have only officially deplored 23,000 deaths to date! Alas, it could have been ten times less "if the investments went hand in hand with the quality of care".
But let's look at the case of Germany: their number of deaths stopped at 6,000, 4 times less than France, and at no time were their hospitalization capacities exceeded. Why? For a simple management problem they solved a long time ago. Which means that what was very serious in France is not elsewhere! We must therefore start by putting things into perspective. Germany is affected mainly in its industrial capacities, but nothing insurmountable.
In France, it seems that for the sake of saving, the nursing staff work in "just-in-time": like department stores, hospitals do not manage stocks on site and depend on regular supply and the stock market for the prices of perishable goods. For example, the trend is to have no more beds available and for patients to return home as soon as possible for home care. It’s modern management organized by technocrats behind computers. Orders and supplies are made according to a fluctuating system, from day to day. And so, our technocrats have defined maximum capacities of beds and places available, for example 5000 beds for resuscitation services. And as soon as this capacity is exceeded, the LEDs turn red, which they did right away. The proposed model is so weak and unstable that it becomes ineffective at the first crisis. Obviously, a global epidemic must be managed upstream and not downstream to contain the number of patients in proportion to the carrying capacity. This is what Greece did.
On the other hand, Germany had from the start a capacity of 30,000 beds just for patients on artificial respirators and hospitals have never been in the dark. In addition, they chose to intervene as close as possible to the population by circumscribing the epidemic clusters when France chose to wait for the patients to contaminate themselves and declare themselves 15 days later. The emergency physicians believed they were gaining time to organize themselves before seeing an avalanche of serious cases fall which saturated all the reception capacities… and cry! In addition, directors and professors, both great decision-makers and gurus, are so infatuated with themselves and the places of doctors in hospitals are so expensive that they admit no help, except for small volunteer students: "No, we do not need the advice of Germany or elsewhere, nor unfair competition from the private sector, nor laboratories, neither veterinarians nor pharmacists sent back to their pharmacies to make ointments. The public hospital is self-sufficient.” And here's the result!
Since French hospitals have no stock and no factory to meet their needs, it is directly dependent on foreign supplies for masks, tests, advanced equipment, drugs and all chemical components. And when the borders close, the carers despair: "What are we doing? We have nothing left! Send us trash bags to make us spare combinations".
Explaining that France only has 5,000 beds to offer in intensive care with the necessary support and treatment, it is like saying that our emergency services have a very short expiration date or more exactly a "date of planned obsolescence". If, moreover, the caregivers had decided to exercise their right of withdrawal or to take their RTTs late, the hospitals closed directly, after having already closed many of them before.
However, the planned obsolescence dates have no reason to be if we consider that the French contribute up to 11% to the public health service, the highest rate in Europe. Like what, Germany is doing four times better than France with less subsidies. But how is it possible? By what management error on our part? On the one hand, the remaining hospitals are asked to “work just in time”, resources are concentrated, storage costs are limited, supplies are obtained abroad at low cost, patients are sent back to finish treating at home. and on the other side it is explained that the nursing staff is obliged to sacrifice themselves by doing miracles! We applaud them very much every night…
But if we look closely, 1/3 of the costs are external to the actual care, which will fatten obese regional health agencies and compensate useless or incompetent senior officials. If in addition they have to rent buildings and repay loans, ultimately hospitals in France will be unsuitable for responding to future emergencies, which only serve to enrich opportunists with our taxes, to exploit small hands and to manufacture debt.
Their brilliant idea: the dematerialization of health services! It's not new, it goes back years. In 2010, when they chased Roselyne Bachelot to organize the shortage under the presidency of Nicolas Sarkozy, it was already the end of the Public Hospital in exchange for a European management model. In 2003, under Chirac, the heat wave killed more than 15,000 people without calling into question the faulty system. Yesterday as today, the new "medicrates" participate in the collapse of the public hospital: we see where it takes us, right in the wall. Even hanging on the wall like a ham, Didier Raoult would be better than Agnès Buzyn and Olivier Véran together in the same office, that is to say the height of incompetence reached by these two managers. As Didier Raoult explains, emergency situations should not be entrusted to those who organize the daily routine.
Medicine without humanism and hospitals without beds and without equipment are only ruins of public assistance. Soon, with Apple-Google questionnaires, connected watches and plug-and-pay, voice assistants will organize home teleconsultations: "Did I answer your problem correctly? If not, I can put you in touch with a contact person". The referring doctors will be German or Spanish and American or Chinese robots will replace the emergency doctors and surgeons. The hospital will be reduced to its simplest device: operating theaters and other sterile rooms, operators on programmable robots and vending machines filled with goods by Amazon, and then VTC ambulances with stretcher bearers and refrigerated truck drivers from at Uber. The accountants will be Indian and the secretaries will be Romanians or Arabs. Automatic reports will list maintenance periods, updates, computer bugs and mechanical accidents. The irresponsibility will reach new heights. Do you see it coming? René Laennec must already turn around in his grave, strangled by his stethoscope. On this dreaded day, medicine in France will be dead.
Doesn't that remind you of other similar cases of uberization? More generally, the defaulting State manufactures debt to pay an army of useless people in Europe as in France, starting with many soldiers (unlike Germany which by this economy has infinitely more means to organize its services of health), but also to support a ruinous international policy (including aid to Africa in addition to the corresponding immigration), to buy social peace in the suburbs and overseas territories (incidentally that of "yellow vests" which also require attention), to pay inoperative technocrats, to deal with problems invented from scratch to meet the objectives of an illusory Europe and all this at the price of gold: that of an abysmal national debt and at the expense of public health priorities and hospital equipment, as we have just seen. This model has fizzled out.
Afterwards, there is no longer any way to invest anywhere in local facilities, in healthcare in the city or in the countryside, not to mention culture: for example, Paris has become a giant bus station for mass tourism and a vomit of cars and trucks under a screed of toxic gases that blacken the streets and facades. The poor dogs are even accused of dirtying the sidewalks. Pickpockets rob travelers, but the police are mainly used to verbalize the wealthy city dwellers who walk around, that is to say one million minutes drawn up during confinement. The penalty is double and freedom is an illusion. Living here no longer really makes sense... This is how France dematerializes every day a little more. "Should we despair?" as Michel Sardou would have sung.
Another example: we can also cite the civil aviation which will be bailed out directly by the State. How to explain that planes at rest, without consuming kerosene, cost more than in flight? If Air France would be a hospital (like the Armies Hospital of Val de Grace or the Hôtel Dieu in Paris), this company would have closed a long time ago. This business model is therefore not viable: it is even dangerous for the French economy. And what artificial need pushes the population to make so many air journeys? In the name of tourism and vacations? If there is one sector that we should know how to do without, this is it... Already, without Air France, Renault and all the others, for a month we have been breathing much better. Quick, let's go back to Earth!
And then, thank you for the work of all the caregivers, but it was only a fleeting crisis, hopefully, which took on too much importance because of the general carelessness and the inability to deal with priorities by technocrats and other state bureaucrats. See how they dematerialized the hospitals! As Molière would have said: "That's why your daughter is mute...". Yes, merde in France.