We can "
stand in line to go buy sneakers (...), pile up in supermarkets or take the train, even when crowded
", but go to the movies?
Not yet.
Alas, more than 800 professionals from a stalled industry alarm the president in a forum.
Unequal treatment raises questions.
Deemed arbitrary, the decision to keep cinemas closed is scandalous.
This is enough to reject the principle of health precaution of a dubious pout at best.
The government does not convince a decidedly deserted cinema planet.
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"
For very long months, the 5,913 screens of the 2,046 cinemas in France have been kept closed,
" lists the forum.
Professionals rely on an "
opinion of the Scientific Council of October 26 and by the ComCor study of the Pasteur Institute of December 10, 2020
", to contradict a principle of health precaution which would be irrelevant in their case.
The op-ed also points to a recent German study, conducted by the Hermann Rietschel Institute (University of Berlin), according to which "
cinemas are twice as secure as supermarkets and three times safer than train travel
."
If this is the case, why not reopen the rooms in compliance with "
strict sanitary protocols
", as was the case "
from the first days of deconfinement
" recalls the forum.
“
As the finished films pile up on the shelves of distributors every week.
It is the "whole platform" which is becoming established and devalues our ambitions and our rights
", worry professionals.
"
So what?"
Do we stay closed for a year, two years?
Forever ?
", Ask circumspect professionals who, in their address to the President, wish to recall"
the nightmare
"they are going through.
"
Each week of closure adds to the disaster in progress,
" they insist.
Beyond a “
world of debates and ideas which is being considerably impoverished
”, it is “
an economic industrial sector with 340,000 jobs flowing
”, quantify the signatories.
The request is therefore clear: “
reopen the rooms!
Now !
"
