In one year, the executive branch has learned a lot. Twelve months ago, the arrival of this coronavirus of which nothing was known led him to decree throughout the territory the assignment of the French to residence. Certain regions were little or not threatened but, in the country of equality, it probably seemed unthinkable to him to make exceptions. The proof, after the summer, the putting under bell of Marseilles was to cause on the spot a strong outcry. The government was responsible for this because local elected officials had not been consulted beforehand. Since then, the threads of the dialogue with Paris seem to have been renewed. Thus the announcement, this Monday, of a partial containment of the Riviera coast at the end of the week did not provoke hostile reactions. The unpredictable circulation of the virus may require further territorial variations in the future.
France can only rely on an empirical method. It must move like the enemy. To follow the followers of total confinement, of “zero covid”, would be madness. Would the morale of the nation, the economic apparatus, the school and university systems resist it? Above all, such a diktat would suppose that everything is in order to make it effective. At the same time, it would be advisable to vaccinate at will. However, France, like most of its European neighbors, lacks doses. The Israelis come out …
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