Guillaume Tabard: "Consistency and humility, pillars of public speaking in the time of the coronavirus"

Is it because Bergamo was the first European center of the pandemic that, with regard to the masks, the annoying feeling settles down that we are made to dance the Bergamask?

It is not only the government that public opinion risks blaming for a turnaround, but also health officials, scientific experts or media figures: "those who know" or "those who decide", to whom "basic" citizens are entitled to trust.

Whether Marine Le Pen or Jean-Luc Mélenchon accuse the macronist power of "lying" is one thing. But, on the usefulness of masks for all, it was a recognized media voice, Marina Carrère d'Encausse, who used the word "lie". A lie "for a good cause" , she explained on Europe 1, in order to avoid a "rush in pharmacies" and thus preserve the supply of nursing staff. And, by extension, as the explanation is identical to that of the government, the suspicion of lying reflects on it.

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The explanation itself

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