Guilaume Tabard: "The urgency of a better coordinated word"

Tighten the bolts before it is too late. Emmanuel Macron and Édouard Philippe know this, and moreover have already warned the French: the worst of the crisis is yet to come. The hardest part will be the shock of the curve of the number of deaths which soars to a peak far from being reached and the shock of the images of saturated hospitals; it will be the weight of the confinement more heavily felt than in its first days. Even more than now, the government will have to appear solid in its action and clear in its expression. And it is because the device lacked confidence, at least in terms of communication, that the Prime Minister wanted to reframe his team. It is better for everyone to be at their post and hold it firmly when the wind is just getting up, than risk being swept by the storm when it breaks.

There have been blunders of expression, like that of Sibeth Ndiaye on teachers who are "not working" at the moment. We must give notice

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