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"The H1N1 influenza was extremely instructive. First, it taught us how to throw money down the drain. The cost of this ‘swine’ influenza (EUR 900 million according to the Court of Auditors!) is not due to the number of victims. There were 10 times fewer H1N1 influenza victims than victims of ordinary seasonal influenza. Yet it is true that those 2 000 annual victims, most of whom were elderly or already ill, are of no interest to anyone. They are much less exotic.
Next, it taught us how to completely disguise a lack of judgment with alarmist speeches and arm waving. Tens of millions of doses were ordered unnecessarily. We had what was meant to be a mass vaccination programme organised without any regard for common sense. The communication was so exaggerated and contradictory that the people of France turned their backs with suspicion, and rightly so, on the orders that were given to them.
There was a suspicion of common interest between those who took the political decisions and those who benefited from them financially. Finally, the H1NI influenza taught us that, in France, however error-prone, negligent or incompetent a minister, nothing would force him or her to resign. And the daily events within the French Government are proof that, on this matter, nothing, absolutely nothing, has changed!"@en1
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