"We are at war,"
Emmanuel Macron said on Monday March 16, during his first solemn speech on the epidemic.
Six months later, the military analogy is no longer really relevant.
Or, rather, it's a funny war that is unfolding.
A situation of waiting, where some begin to doubt the peril that threatens us.
The enemy, the Covid-19, is still there.
The steady rise in the number of cases in the country since August reminds us without any ambiguity.
But, with us, this enemy does not kill any more, or very few.
It is tempting to conclude that the disease is not as deadly as it used to be.
And therefore to think that we can find a normal life.
It would be a mistake.
Because everything proves that the coronavirus has not changed, but that it has especially infected young people this summer.
However, as we have known since the first wave, it is not the under 40s who encumber hospital services.
They develop mild symptoms, which do not bother
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