Coronavirus: "These questions that remain behind the general mobilization"

Because the hour is serious, a solemn word was needed. In France, when the future is fraught with threats, all eyes are on the State and the one who embodies it. Public speaking, brought for a few days by Jérôme Salomon, the director general of Health, and Olivier Véran, his minister, needed the presidential verb. Emmanuel Macron had to find the right note, to express what everyone feels. The vertigo of the acceleration of History, the fear of an unknown evil, the resurgence of buried representations: collective tragedies, death that lurks, the intractable face of fatality. Between democratic continuity and the health emergency, Emmanuel Macron hesitated for a long time. He finally decided, after taking advice from the scientific authorities, to maintain the municipal elections. Eight days separate the two towers. This terrible period turns hours into days and days into weeks: let's hope that we don't have

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