Macron: “The non-vaccinated, I really want to piss them off. And so we’re going to keep on doing it, until the end. That’s the strategy.”

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  2. He should have made the vaccines mandatory as soon as they were available. It would have prevented all sorts of personal speculations that let people have their opinion drift into an irrational anti-vax stance over time.

  3. “les emmerder” translates to “mess with them, fuck around with them”

    piss X off translates to enerver X.

    Bold words so close of the elections, some president lost elections on one sentence in the past.

  4. Did our president just lose it? And to say he was wishing for “unity” on the 31st. I’m all for the vaccine and making it mandatory, but this is just throwing fuel to a fire.

  5. They should at the very least pay full price for hospitalization costs. So fucking enraged that their dumbassery needs to be covered by tax funded healthcare.

  7. Piss of here is the translation of « Emmerder » which literally means covering someone with poo.

    I think the readers of this sub can be interested by this information.

  13. Remember when the strategy was about public safety.

    Not being vaccinated isn’t a threat to public health, it’s a threat to authority

  17. Reason or no, with his words, they forget to be the president of all French people.

    He is right on the substance but the form must be adapted by doing that, he radicalizes the anti vax.

  18. I don’t know. He has a big election coming up, will there be more people happy he is doing this to outweigh the votes he will lose from the unvaccinated?

  19. To hell with his good resolutions to be more careful with his words apparently.

    Rethinking about it, maybe he’s trying a Draghi’s “whatever it takes” moment applied to vaccination. He’s a fan of that move.

  30. quick reminder that these vaccines, while effective at preventing bad cases of Covid and significantly reducing the amount of deaths, do NOT protect you from getting the virus in the first place – something which every other vaccine before these did

  32. I was a bit more indulgent with anti-vaxxers, but today after the fifth time i got completely dressed up in plastic to intubate yet another unvaccinated idiot i only wanted to let them die. It’s really frustrating.

  37. The full sentence translated by Deepl.

    > “In a democracy, the worst enemy is lies and stupidity. We put pressure on the non-vaccinated by limiting their access to social activities as much as possible. In fact, almost all people, more than 90%, have adhered to it. It is a very small minority that is resistant. How do we reduce this minority? We reduce them, I’m sorry to say, by annoying them even more.
    >
    > I’m not in favor of annoying the French. I complain all day long about the administration when it blocks them. Well, in this case, the non-vaccinated, **I really want to piss them off. And so we’re going to continue to do it, right to the end. That’s the strategy.** I’m not going to put them in jail, I’m not going to vaccinate them by force. And so, we have to tell them: from January 15, you won’t be able to go to the restaurant, you won’t be able to take a canon (*have a drink*), you won’t be able to go for a coffee, you won’t be able to go to the theater, you won’t be able to go to the movies…”

    He also added this

    > “When my freedom threatens that of others, I become irresponsible. An irresponsible person is no longer a citizen.”

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