Jacques Chirac had it written into the Constitution in 2003. Even if it was then a question of backing the only Environmental Charter to the fundamental law, the precautionary principle has prevailed in all areas of life of society, especially where the risk of fear and panic is greatest. Faced with the coronavirus, it is obviously the one chosen by the government.
The order for 200 million additional masks is part of this. The figure is made to strike and to reassure on the seriousness with which is taken into account the possibility of an epidemic reaching France. The precedents are there, however, to recall the boomerang effect of the figures. Ten years ago, the H1N1 epidemic having ended quickly, France had to cancel the order for 50 million vaccines and sell millions of others that had become useless. Critics had not failed against Roselyne Bachelot, Minister of Health illustrating
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