Just as the government defends a “regionalization” of restrictions, should anti-Covid-19 measures be lightened in certain territories?
This is the wish of several elected officials in Brittany, a region with the lowest incidence rate in metropolitan France (103.7, when the national average is greater than 200).
"We lack pragmatism", gets carried away Paul Molac, deputy of Morbihan, able to quote several municipalities with an incidence rate of less than 50.
In their viewfinder?
First of all, the curfew at 6 p.m., deemed "incomprehensible" by Ronan Loas, the mayor of Plœmeur (Morbihan).
"The story of the curfew at 6 pm, I would like someone to explain to me that it is really useful here, while we see a rush in the shops at 5.30 pm and on Saturday mornings", points Paul Molac.
An opinion shared by his colleague from Côtes-d'Armor Marc Le Fur, who also pleads for a kind of regionalization in reverse.
“I fully understand that certain situations require tougher decisions.
But in return, some other territories, roughly the West and the South-West could well experience a reduction in the curfew, "he said on France Info.
"Experiments" to reopen restaurants
Apart from this kind of "night confinement" from 6 p.m., it is also the closure of restaurants, bars, and many hotels that grieves these elected officials.
Ronan Loas suggests that his territory be the spearhead for carrying out "experiments" to reopen, with a health protocol allowing "to welcome a few people without it being the big crowd".
“We were already the least affected region during the second wave this fall.
We have to adapt!
“Thunders the mayor of Plœmeur.
In Finistère, the idea of alleviating the constraints in the department least affected in France by the Covid does not convince all the inhabitants paradoxically.
On the one hand, a later curfew would arrange the affairs of Christine, butcher-caterer in Brest.
But on the other, who would find their way there?
"People will no longer understand anything, already that it is difficult to enforce the wearing of masks in the hall," she exclaims, after having taken over three customers yesterday morning at the market. strolling, nose to the wind.
"I think that the measures must be clear, general and applied for a certain time, we cannot say each time:
we will discuss it again in 15 days,
otherwise everyone gets lost", she judges.
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As for Patricia, nurse in one of the largest laboratories in the city, she recalls that the English variant, present in other departments, risks spreading also in Finistère.
It is already circulating strongly in the rest of Brittany, according to data from Public Health France.
Faced with the threat, this is not the time to relax: "Lighten up now, I don't think it's wise".
Others are more categorical and even advocate a ban on travel between departments, especially during the full school holidays.
"It is better to close everything for a month", advocates Stéphane, employee at the bar-tabac Le Trimaran, facing the beach in the city center, worried by the horde of Parisian tourists, not always fussy about wearing a mask.
"At least that will help preserve Finistère," he said, assuring that all Brest residents are of the same opinion.
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Elected officials in favor of relief also want to ensure it: they are not oblivious to this.
There is no question of asking for a total and immediate reopening of restaurants or a total lifting of the curfew, for example.
“I would dream of having territorialized measures, Brittany is not an island.
And we are on the same crest line as the others before knowing which part of the chisel will win, ”insists Eric Bothorel, deputy for Côtes-d'Armor.
Easing restrictions would also risk generating an air intake for tourists and residents from elsewhere.
This is also what Morgane, a 36-year-old auxiliary from Brest, fears: “Obviously, we go where there are the fewest viruses.
It would not occur to me at the moment to go on vacation to Nice ”.