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Coronavirus: "Farewell on the sly"

2020-03-25T20:36:34.754Z


The editorial of Figaro, by Yves Thréard.


No one will ever know? Never the cause of death for retirement home residents? In old age, loneliness and illness are now added to ignorance and silence. Overwhelmed by the health crisis, France does not have the means to know how many of them disappear, victims of the coronavirus: they do not appear in the official accounts ginned every night. And, in a rush, our country has prohibited family visits, the last words to the dying, tributes to burials. No flowers or wreaths. Farewell farewell is a must.

Behind the closed doors and out of sight, a tragedy behind closed doors is taking place in accommodation establishments for dependent elderly people (Ehpad). Unworthy. The slaughter would be such that here and there the coffins would pile up in hastily improvised cold rooms.

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Source: lefigaro

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