I see Professor Macron whose up for election again next year is trying to deflect from his own involvement in their pitiful vaccination 'non' program with his usual anti-English attacks, something that always goes down well in France.
We know there can be side effects with both vaccines and some of us have unfortunately felt them, but the majority of the millions in Britain, India and elsewhere have had relatively little reaction, one in ten suffering some.
Macron though has hammered on about the AZ vaccine and never misses an opportunity to slur the efforts of Britain or others which might otherwise cast a large shadow when contrasted with their own stumbling homegrown fiasco.
You've probably heard of the Placebo effect in which a patient can strongly believe something might cure them despite being treated with something which plainly wouldn't.
Scientists use the 'Placebo' phenomenon in drug trials to compare what might happen to some patients anyway without receiving any real treatment from the drug under investigation. The drug being replaced with something ineffective but harmless in the 'placebo' group and the real drug which only administered to those in drug trial proper group.
Macron and since he so often takes the lead in Europe, Europe too has now given rise to the NOCEBO effect were Macron's English bashing electioneering and the both unjustified and steady unrelenting attacks on Astra Zeneca vaccine have created an atmosphere of fear and distrust. The constant nationalistic jibes may help the French Professor and his re-election prospects, they may even help deflect from areas he'd rather weren't looked upon too closely, but they haven't helped Europe's vaccine program one little bit.
Tens of millions have received the AstraZeneca jab in the UK and India without meaningful side-effects beyond minor - and desirable - signs of an immune reaction. Yet frontline health workers in Germany, Austria, France, and Spain have convinced themselves that it is doing them real harm, and that it is also ineffective.
The NOCEB0 effect was first discovered in France but is now spreading across Europe.
