THE QUESTION. Health is priceless, insisted Emmanuel Macron on March 12, stressing that everything would be done, " whatever the cost ", to save lives. Since then, France has imposed an almost total containment of its population, like most of the richest countries and not only.
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But the consequence was a paralysis of economic life much worse than at the time of the financial crisis of 2008-2009 and even of the great depression of the 1930s. Conceived as the ultimate remedy for the epidemic of Covid-19, this brutal halt is deliberate. Is it true that " for the first time in human history we put people's lives before the economy ", as neuropsychiatrist Boris Cyrulnik said?
CHECK. The decision to contain, completely and authoritatively, was taken within a few days. On Thursday March 12, in his first television address concerning the Covid-19, the President of the Republic declares " general mobilization " against the coronavirus
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