Over the past two years, we have seen a number of variants of Covid-19 , forcing us to rethink our daily lives. For a few weeks already, the variant Omicron spreads at high speed. Some have seen Christmas canceled due to positive cases, others have postponed their snow holidays so as not to take any risks and since the start of the school year in January, we have seen more and more people around us infected or contact cases . Faced with the spread of this variant, the government has brought into force a new health protocol last January 3. As soon as a student is identified as a contact of another contaminated student, he must carry out a test in the pharmacy or in the laboratory on D-Day, then two self-tests . A difficult new protocol for parents, who have difficulty finding appointments, and for practitioners, who cannot offer enough slots.
Every day, pharmacists see a large number of people coming to take a test. This incessant dance becomes particularly difficult to manage. Lara , a pharmacy assistant, denounces this in an open letter published on her Instagram account . She explains that “sanitary protocols are constantly changing. Patients are lost, and so are we. » . Since the new health protocol, children are increasingly tested. Lara writes "You can't test an entire school at 7 p.m. because there's a positive case in every class. I became the one who makes children cry to test them at all costs. » .
Just like adults, children don't like to be tested. They "crying, thrashing, screaming to death" says Lara . Parents, also exhausted, keep them "by force" . Under certain conditions, the pharmacy assistant “refuses to test a child” . Except the parent "begs me crying to test and inflict this pain on his child or else he can't go back to school and the parent has to work, so the child has to go to school on the following day. » . A situation that is not easy to manage for Lara.
If during the first confinement, which began in March 2020, we applauded the nursing staff at 7 p.m., this practice seems far behind us. Lara explains “sometimes I get attacked,name-calling , the impression of being thrown to the wolves, because I say no. Patients do not understand this no, well yes everywhere the politicians say to go to the pharmacy to get tested...! » .
Test the children , is not always easy. Lara knows this very well, and it impacts her daily life:"I cry to be the one who tortures children, the one who makes children and their parents cry, the one who has to force-test dozens of children at the out of school. These children who have asked nothing of anyone. » . When positive, some pups are totally isolated . Lara ends her letter by adding "sometimes parents tell me:she will be locked in her room for 1 week, meals will be served on a tray that will be placed in front of her door, no hugs, no kisses until until she can get out of isolation . » .
According to the latest version of the sanitary protocol published last Thursday, children no longer need to be tested if a new positive case is detected after less than seven days.
