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Haunted by downgrading, these French people who mourn the end of a world

1/20/2023, 6:55:18 PM


INVESTIGATION -Shortages, inflation, health and energy crisis, disintegration of public services... Hard knocks and ills are multiplying for the country, causing a strong feeling of decline in the population. Faced with an increasingly complicated daily life, the French are looking to...

The subject invites itself to all tables, in all mouths.

France is doing badly, the French no longer see any horizon, only the dark sky of crises.

The feeling of downgrading, of retreat, of collapse undermines all heads.

"Today, nothing is going right, on all floors,"

launches Isabelle, a 40-year-old lawyer who cannot recover from the absence, for a time, of mustard on the shelves of supermarkets.

A shortage that might seem anecdotal if it did not symbolize this reality: the unthinkable happens.

How, indeed, to imagine that this basic condiment would disappear from stores, like oil and many other common products?

These stock-outs even affect paracetamol!

On the employee side, as we know, the country is experiencing a cruel lack of arms among doctors, teachers, waiters and even nurses.

In this bad sequence, started with the health crisis, the signs of disintegration follow one another, without downtime.

How…

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